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Original file of letters, tax papers and accounts.

Covering letter from Tom Jones, headmaster of Alaw school, Trealaw, Glamorgan, to J. F. Groves of Newport, esq., and a manuscript copy of his article 'Castell y Wiber, Penylan, Roath', extracted from his manuscript 'Place-names of Roath'.

Original bundle of letters and other papers relating to the trustees of John Robert Reece and Mary Elizabeth ('Minnie') Sheppard, the children of the late Mrs Elizabeth Reece of Rose Villa near Cardiff. Many of the letters relate to a box of silver plate and other articles deposited by the late Henry Jones Evans of Greenhill near Cardiff, trustee of the estate of Elizabeth Reece, with the banking firm Messrs Wilkins & Co., predecessors in business of Lloyds Bank Ltd.

Letters and other papers relating to the sale of properties of Wilkins & Co. The partners of Wilkins & Co. included William de Winton (d. pre-1910) and Thomas John Evans of Glyncelyn, Talachddu, Breconshire (d. 2 Jan. 1892). The properties included Herbrandston Farm (248 a.) and Neeston Hall Farm (118 a.) in the parish of Herbrandston, the smallholdings of Biggins Hill (47a.) and The Mount (14 a.) in Steynton, as well as Broadford in Kidwelly, properties called Bryncaerau Farm, Glenrhidian and Maesypwll, and property at Haverfordwest and Southerdown. Herbrandston Farm and The Hill had been bought in 1864, and Neeston Hall Farm in 1873 (letter dated 24 Aug. 1908).

Original bundle of letters and other papers relating to T. J. Evans, dec., and the Tymawr and Colby estates. The papers include the sale of Midcounty Farm in the parish of Slebech, Pembrokeshire, and of Tymawr and Pentwyn farms in the parish of Defynnog, 1927. There is also reference to a property called Green Bower in the parish of Slebech.

Original file of vouchers and related papers.

Original file of vouchers and related papers.

Original file of vouchers and related papers.

Original file of vouchers and related papers.

Original file of vouchers and related papers.

Original file of vouchers and related papers.

Original file of accounts, dividend warrants and letters.

Original file of vouchers and related papers, including relating to the Barry Estate Co. Ltd.

Loose counterfoils of drafts for interest and dividends on debenture stocks, including in the Penarth Harbour, Dock & Railway Co., the Merthyr Tydfil Gas Co., the Rhymney Railway Co., the Barry Railway Co., the Midland Railway Co., the Taff Vale Railway Co., the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway Co., the Caledonian Railway Co., the Great Western Railway Co. and the North British Railway Co.

Trust accounts, 1898-1908, and bank account counterfoils, 1907-1927. There is also H. Edgar Thomas's account for taking the minutes of Brecon prison's visiting committee, 1897-1899.

Solicitors' clients' papers unrelated to the Tredegar estate. Most of the papers relate to the administration of the estate of Thomas John Evans of Glancelyn, dec., by his executors, Henry F. W. Harries of Brecon, solicitor, and Major Henry John Archibald Evans of Chalcombe House, Banbury, Oxfordshire, 1892-1928. The connection between these papers and the Tredegar estate is that H. F. W. Harries also acted as the agent for the Tredegar Breconshire estate. The papers include items dated 1928, so were swept into the Breconshire estate records after that date, presumably when the Breconshire estate office was finally closed and the records sent to the Newport office. The papers mainly comprise vouchers and related papers, including paying rates and tithes in the parishes of Glyn and Defynnog in Breconshire, and Slebech and Wiston in Pembrokeshire, and receiving moneys out of the Barry Estate Co. Ltd and the Merthyr Tudful glebe estate in Glamorgan, the Colby estate, Pembrokeshire, and dividends from various companies, mainly railway companies. The beneficiaries of the estate appear to have been Rev. John James Evans (d. by Feb. 1924), Mary Dorothes Jame Evans, Eleanor Mote Evans and Major H. J. A. Evans. -- Although the remaining two files relate to Cardiff and Roath, 1914-1931 (P 5/6/20-21), Henry F. W. Harries acted in the case of P 5/6/20, and the papers probably came from his office.

Letters extracted from a binder entitled 'Christchurch Highway Board, letter file, to April 1890'. The letters are addressed to H. J. Davis of Newport, solicitor, in his capacity as clerk to the Christchurch Highway Board. He was also an agent of the Tredegar estate, and presumably this file was caught up by mistake with the Tredegar estate letter files. The letters include circulars from the Highway Board Clerks' Society, 1882-83 (69, 73-74, 114), the orders of the Monmouthshire Quarter Sessions for regulating main roads, 1882 (195), a memorial from G. H. Thorne, surveyor to the board, in answer to the remarks of William Williams, waywarden of p. Redwick, that he has been extravagant with the ratepayers' money, 1885 (198), a notice from the Monmouthshire Commission of Sewers that the commutation of the board's liabilities on its lands in Caldicot under the Caldicot and Wentlloog Level Act of 1884 has been prepared, 1887 (239), a number of the quarterly reports to the Quarter Sessions of William Tanner, county surveyor, on the main roads, 1885-88 (221, 265).

A copy rate book for the parish of St Woolloos, Monmouthshire, attested by John Powell, assistant overseer, 14 June 1875.