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Press copies of out-going letters of the Tredegar Wharf Company, 1881-1895, and its successors, the Tredegar Wharf Estate, 1895-1904, and the Newport Rents Department, 1904-1905. The letters mainly relate to estate properties, and include bills, rent demands and receipts. -- The spines of ANA 1/6-33 bear the original numbers 4-31, bearing witness to the essential continuity of the series despite the successive reorganisations. The last two volumes in the series (ANA 1/34-35) are press copies of Newport Rents accounts and receipts, 1904-1909, including a few notices to quit.

Account books of moneys received and paid in respect of Tredegar house, gardens and farm. The earlier volumes, 1771-1792 (ADT 2/1-2), are settled accounts between the house stewards and their master. ADT 2/3, weekly household expenditure, 1792-1796, may have contributed to a successor volume of settled accounts, since lost. -- There are only two volumes for the nineteenth century, a butcher's account, 1828-1856 (ADT 2/4), and a household payments account, 1846-1867 (ADT 2/5). -- After a break in the surviving accounts, the series re-starts on 22 May 1913 (ADT 2/6), presumably when Courtenay Charles Evan Morgan, third baron Tredegar, succeeded to the estate on the death of Godfrey Charles, viscount Tredegar. Receipts are almost entirely in the form of moneys received from the estate office. In ADT 2/6, expenditure is divided into household, sundry subscriptions and donations, and miscellaneous outgoings, with a column for gardens (later gardens and kennels) added in March 1915. In ADT 2/7, the miscellaneous column is replaced by columns for the garden, the kennels and hunt, the garage, and the stable, reflecting the interests of Lord Tredegar. In ADT 2/8, the garden and kennels and hunt columns are not used, except when the latter is used for a racing account, Sept. 1923-June 1924. In ADT 2/9, a bassett hounds account starts in April 1928 and runs to the end of the volume, and a 'Non. Evan Morgan's pigeon a/c' runs for the period Feb.-Dec. 1931. In ADT 2/10 (1933-37), the bassett hound account is idle until it is deleted at the end of 1933, and the books are balanced and settled on 3 May 1934 (on the death of Courtenay Charles Evan Morgan), including a loose paper containing the outstanding accounts on the private secretary's account on 3 May 1934. A bird account is started in Aug. 1934, and in Oct. 1934 the columns are reorganized, giving columns headed household, subscriptions and donations, gardens and birds, poultry farm, garage, and farm and game. This latter arrangement continues into ADT 2/11, except that the gardens and birds account is split into separate accounts, zoo (dead from March 1942) and gardens. A column for coal is added in July 1938. Household expenditure includes servants' and outside men's wages, petty cash, the butcher, chauffeur, chemist, fishmonger, grocery and pork butcher books, and quarterly disbursements, as well as accounts for malt and hops, stationery, game, papers, kitchen utensils, fruit, carpet, livery, cricket requisites, oil, whiskey, candles, (cloths, dusters and sheets), and brewing duty. In addition, a number of items for Ruperra were entered on 29 July 1913. The subscriptions and donations include a wide variety of institutions and events, including for example in May-June 1913, Abertyssog Hospital eisteddfod, Ancient Druids conference fund, All Saints Cricket Club, Bargoed Lunacy Fund, Dr Barnardo Home, Basaleg Tennis Club, Bath & West Show, Caer-went Horticultural Society, Canton Baptist Cricket Club, Cardiff Jubilee Nurse, Cardiff Port [Poor?] Cripple Society, Llandaf Diocese Girls Friendly [Society], Maendy Emanual Men's Institute, Mamheilad Colliery Band, Newport Dog Show, Newport RFC cadets, Pontllanfraith Sports and Pontypridd Chapel Bazaar. Evan Frederic Morgan, second viscount, died in 1949, and to save creating a 1950 account the entries dated 4-11 Jan. 1950 were treated as 31 Dec. 1949.

Cash books relating to receipts and expenditure at Tredegar house and park. Expenditure includes servants' wages, pensions, stipends, bills for the stud farm, the carriage stables, the deer park and game, and the kennels, fox damage, Lord Tredegar's postal orders, smiths, chemists, saddlers, ironmongers, grocers, butchers, builders suppliers and stationers bills, subscriptions, Christmas prizes, funerals of pensioners, Catherine Morgan's charity, and agricultural show expences. Receipts are generally supplied by cheque, but also include GWR tolls for use of the Park Mile Railway, balances brought forward from the sale of hides account, stud fees and sales of horses off the stud farm, prizes given towards the Bedwellty Show, the Tredegar Show and the Welsh National Show, and show catalogues sold. The account appears to have been a new account on 2 Jan. 1906, when the first book opens with a cheque for £5,000. The account closed on 3 March 1960 with the transfer of £23-2-2 to Coutts & Co. to the credit of Lord Tredegar's external account.

Letter books containing carbon copies of the out-going letters of A. Clifford Harding (1919-1942) of the Clerk of Works Department, based at the Tredegar estate works, Rhiwderyn, Monmouthshire. Many of the letters are to L. Foster Stedman (1919-1938) of the Tredegar estate offices, Newport, the estate agent (J. I. Storrar, 1938-1941, and W. B. T. Rees, 1941-1942), mainly relating to repairs and maintenance of tenanted properties, apparently mainly on the Monmouthshire and Glamorgan agricultural estates. Other letters are to contractors inviting tenders, to tenants, and to other individuals and organisations. The volumes cover the period 27 Sept. 1919-24 July 1942. The 1938-1942 volume (ADY 4/9) also had three letters copied into it dated May-June 1946 before being finally abandoned. Many of the war-time letters refer to the shortage and regulation of materials; ADY 4/9 also contains a letter at the back of the volume (p. 999) from A. Clifford Harding as commander of No. 13 (Basaleg) Platoon to Captain A. L. Howell, officer commanding 'C' Company, 4th Mon. (Risca) Battalion of the Home Guard, that unless he gets coupons for at least 10-12 gallons of petrol a month, his platoon will have to remain stationary and train in their own village, May 1941. -- Bundles of letters found loose at the front or the back of various volumes have been gathered together into a single file (ADY 4/10), containing letters dated 1924, 1931-1932, 1935, 1937, 1940-1942 and 1945. These papers include several certificates from the Clerk of Works, 1940-1942, as to the service records of his employees, and not objecting to them being called up for work of national importance. Letters found filed loose between the pages of the volumes have been left where they were found.

Court books and copies of court books of various Monmouthshire manors, containing copies of notices, presentments, surrenders and admissions.

Papers, mainly presentments, relating to various Monmouthshire manors.

Deeds and legal papers re. estates of Thomas Herbert, New Windsor, Buckinghamshire, Thomas Clifford, receiver-general of tax in Monmouthshire and Llangibby Castle estate.

The files comprise papers relating to the causes in Chancery of (until 27 Sept. 1788) William Edwards, clerk, plaintiff, and John Scudamore, esq., and Mary Watkins, defendants, and counter-cause, and (after 29 Sept. 1788) of John Morgan, esq., devisee and sole executor of the will of the said William Edwards, dec., plaintiff, and John Scudamore, esq., and John Donne, an infant, by Mary Donne, widow, his mother and guardian, defendants, and counter-cause. -- The papers include letters, briefs, affadavits, depositions and orders; the judgement of the House of Lords in the case of Lord Buckingham v. Drury, 1762, including "NB. This settlement was a Con! by Sir Tho's Drury for himself his Heirs &c to pay £600 to Lady Drury for Life in lieu of the Jointure"; a copy of the alleged lease, 1781; a copy of the will (1782) and codicil (1785) of Rev. William Edwards; and a copy of the will of William Donne, 1783. The papers also include a number of presumably misfiled papers, including an attested copy of the marriage settlement of William Morgan of Tredegar, esq., and Lady Rachel Cavendish, 1723; a statement of the fortune of Miss Louise Burt, 1788; and drafts of the marriage settlement of John Morgan of Tredegar, esq., and Louise Burt, daughter of Charles Burt of the parish of Westminster St James, 1788.