Letters including letters from Constantine Henry Phipps, first marquis of Normanby, Home Secretary (L83/1, 8-9, 22 et seq.), Sir Charles Shaw, police commissioner for Manchester, Lancashire (L83/4, 11), J[ohn] H[enry] Vivian of the Gnoll (L83/5, 290), Thomas Dalton of Cardiff, deputy Clerk of the Peace (L83/10, 16, 66 et seq.), William Thomas of the Court, Merthyr Tydfil (L83/12, 213, 333), Rowland Fothergill of the Aberdare Iron Works (L83/14), William Crawshay of Cyfarthfa (L83/15, 240), John Bruce Pryce of Dyffryn Aberdare (L83/20, 28, 30 et seq.), Sir Benjamin Hall of Llanofer, co. Mon. (L83/29, 273, 287), Joseph Snow, former proprietor of The Merthyr Guardian (L83/36), John Edward Dibb, editor of The Merthyr Guardian (L83/44, 99, 109 et seq.), Thomas W. Booker of Velindra (L83/45, 83, 259 et seq.), E. J. Hutchins, MP (L83/61), Lord Adare of Dunraven Castle, MP for co. Glam. (L83/67, 176), Richard Hill, Lord Hill, at Cwrtyrala (L83/68), George Insole of Cardiff, coal-owner (L83/77), Henry Stuart, MP for Bedford (L83/81), J. W. Liddell, MP (L83/85), [Phillip Henry Stanhope], Lord Mahon, MP (L83/86), [John Home-Cutts, afterwards Egerton], Lord Alford, MP for Bedfordshire (L83/88), Captain Richard J. Eaton, MP for Cambridgeshire (L83/89), Eliot T. Yorke, MP for Cambridgeshire (L83/92), John Nicholl, MP for Cardiff boroughs (L83/94, 100, 152 et seq.), Charles M. R. Morgan of Ruperra, MP for Brecon borough (L83/95), Henry Scale of Aberaman House, Merthyr Tydfil (L83/96, 119, 135 et seq.), G. G. V. Harcourt, MP for Oxfordshire (L83/97), Captain Martin White of Jersey, hydrographer and nautical engineer (L83/102, 125, 161 et seq.), Colonel Richard Morgan on tour at Rome, and on return from Germany (L83/110, 464, 472), G. Rice Trevor, MP for co. Carm. (L83/112), Sir Charles Christopher Pepys, Lord Cottenham, Lord Chancellor (L83/132), G. W. Butland of London, Cardiff-born artist (L83/138, 215, 415 et seq.), Lord James Stuart, MP (L83/153, 382, 406-7 et seq.), [William] Thompson, MP for the city of London (L83/191, 198, 201), Henry John Grant of the Gnoll (L83/212, 343), Edward Copleston, bishop of Llandaf (L83/228), Lewis Lewis, Clerk to the Merthyr Tydfil magistrates (L83/233, 354, 363 et seq.), L. Box Stockdale, Cardiff police superintendant (L83/244), Alfred Mallalieu, co-proprietor of The Merthyr Guardian (L83/269, 283, 426-7 et seq.), Onesipherous Tyndall Bruce of Falkland Palace, Fife, Scotland (L83/270), Anthony Hill of Plymouth Lodge (L83/278-9, 291, 301 et seq.), Sir Thomas Phillips of Newport, co. Mon. (L83/289, 297, 300 et seq.), James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, baron Wharncliffe (L83/292), Sir Josiah John Guest of Dowlais, MP for Merthyr Tydfil (L83/300, 337), John Smeaton of London, harbour engineer (L83/368, 375, 380 et seq.), Capel Hanbury Leigh of Pontlotyn (L83/371), L[ewis] W[eston] Dillwyn of Sketty Hall (L83/442), James Berkeley of London, for Robert Stephenson, railway engineer (L83/450, 454) and Arthur Charles Luthman, co-proprietor and resident editor of The Merthyr Guardian (L83/451). The correspondence includes letters relating to Chartism, Jan. - Nov. (passim), including the state of Chartism in Manchester, Lancashire, Jan. - Dec. (L83/4, 11, 475), that Dr William Price is believed to be living at Havre, France, that William David and Ebenezer Davis of Newbridge, were last seen at Liverpool, Lancashire, and are believed to have sailed for America, Jan. (L83/7), a list of the leading Chartists in Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare, Jan. (L83/12), the condition of co. Mon, including a reference to Ribbonism in Co. Galway, Ireland, in 1820, Jan. (L83/24), references to Thomas Jones Philips, clerk to the Newport magistrates, who arrested John Frost, Feb. - Dec. (L83/65, 128, 136 et seq.), the return of Dr William Price to Newbridge, March (L83/83, 197), references to Chartists increasing in number and 'armed to the teeth' in Northumberland, co. Durham and Yorkshire, March (L83/96), a sale of the effects of Ebenezer Davies, secretary of the Newbridge Chartists, including a Chartist banner, bought by subscription and burnt on the spot, March (L83/98), newspaper cuttings relating to a Merthyr Tydfil public meeting to form a loyal address to Queen Victoria on her marriage and the insertion of a Chartist-inspired clause petitioning for the release of John Frost, Zephaniah Williams and William Jones, April (L83/135), newspaper cutting of the Welsh custom of decorating graves on Palm Sunday including those of the Newport Chartists, May (L83/173), reference to Thomas John, a noted Chartist of Merthyr Tydfil, June (L83/197), the return of William Davies of Dinas, active at Newport, from America, and a warrant and reward out against him, Aug. (L83/278), Chartists concealing their real views under the pretence of forming temperance societies, Sept. (L83/319), the state of Chartism at Maes-teg, Nov. - Dec. (L83/411, 471), the discovery of Thomas Giles, who led 200 Llanfabon Chartists to Newport on 4 Nov. 1839, Nov. - Dec. (L83/425, 430, 433-4), the establishment of a Chartist lodge at Cardiff, and an attempt to get a police spy into the meeting room, Dec. (L83/429, 435-8, 440-1 et seq.), 'it is very certain, I understand, that a great deal of information given in at Newport regarding arms, and regarding other alleged proceedings of the Chartists was the invention of the party who furnished it', Dec. (L83/438), the failure of a Chartist inspired run on a Swansea savings bank, Dec. (L83/442), a Christmas Day public meeting at Merthyr Tydfil for the release of Zephaniah Williams, John Frost and William and John William Jones, Dec. (L83/466-469, 477-478), and the arrest of Richard Jones, an unemployed weaver of Llanidloes, co. Mont., for selling Chartist publications and bailed by Dr William Price, and Thomas Morgan of Newbridge, carpenter, Dec. (L83/477). The correspondence also includes references to The Merthyr Guardian, Jan. - Dec. (L83/2, 6, 30 et seq.), March - May (L83/99, 109, 117 et seq.), the printed resolutions of a meeting of Conservatives for the removal of the newspaper to Cardiff from Merthyr Tydfil, April (L83/130), and a proposal to merge with The Monmouthshire Beacon, the Conservative paper in co. Mon., Nov. (L83/426), the Glamorgan Militia, Jan. - Nov. (L83/13, 33 et seq.), the Aberdare Canal Co., Jan. (L83/15), the new church at Cardiff, Jan. - Dec. (L83/19, 40, 47 et seq.), the Welsh Manuscript Society including the presidency on the death of Sir W. W. Wynne, Jan. (L83/29), progress in printing Liber Landavensis, March - Nov. (L83/78, 248, 424), and objections to incorporation into the Cymmrodorion Society and progress on the Lives of the Welsh Saints and Lewys Dwnn's Visitations, Aug (L83/273), the proposed rebuilding of the church of Llanilltud Nedd, Feb. - July (L83/54, 60, 223), Whitehall circular to prevent the diffusion of blasphemous and immoral doctrines by printed publications and by other illegal means endorsed 'Circular as to Socialism', Feb. (L83/55, 73), a proposed chapel of ease at Merthyr Tydfil, Feb. - July (L83/57, 62, 137 et seq.), the Cowbridge and Glamorgan Agricultural Society, March (L83/79), the Taff Vale Railway Bill, March - May (L83/80 et seq.), parliamentary election in Perth, March (L83/85), a new Wesleyan Methodist chapel at Hirwaun, March (L83/106, 114), Yr Udgorn Cymru / The Trumpet of Wales, a Chartist monthly, published at Merthyr Tydfil by David John and Morgan Williams, including reference to The Vindicator and The Southern Star, March - Dec. (L83/108, 119, 135-6 et seq.), the school at Llantrisant, May - July (L83/167, 263), detailed account of the Southampton Railway disaster outside Winchester, Hampshire, May (L83/181), a proposed permanent barracks near Cathays Park, Cardiff, and other establishments at Merthyr Tydfil and Swansea, co. Glam., Newport and Abergavenny, co. Mon., and Brecon, June (L83/192-3, 197-8, 201 et seq.), the Cardiff free school, June (L83/195), the new church at the Rhymney Iron Co. works, June (L83/199), the attempted assassination of Queen Victoria in June, including the possibility that Daniel O'Connell might try to lay it at the door of the King of Hanover and the Tories (L83/205, 218) and a notice of a public meeting to agree on a loyal address on the occasion (L83/213), The Advocate and Merthyr Free Press, an English-language Chartist journal, July - Dec. (L83/229, 237, 271 et seq.), including being referred to the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes with a view to its suppression, Oct. (L83/338, 347), a proposed infants' school at Cardiff, including a list of subscribers, July - Sept. (L83/239, 243, 327), a police magistrate at Merthyr Tydfil, July - Dec. (L83/240, 455, 459 et seq.
), the appointment to the vacant see of St David's, including a deputation of Liverpool Welsh to Lord Melbourne, the Prime Minister, that the next bishop be a Welshman, July (L83/250-251, 259, 261), the appointment of special constables following a complaint of tumults at the Cambrian Ironworks Aug. (L83/294), a subscription for improvements in Swansea, Aug. (L83/295), references to socialism, Sept. - Oct. (L83/297, 379), return of co. Mon. miners to work, the coal-masters having submitted to the miners' terms, Sept. - Oct. (L83/315, 400, 402), the suicide of Henry Rowles, manager of the Rhymney Ironworks, Oct. (L83/387, see also L18/199), printed advertisement from The Monmouthshire Merlin of the circulation figures of newspapers in south Wales, Oct. (L83/403), a proposed Aberdare valley branch railway from the Taff Vale Railway at Navigation House to the Rhigos colliery, Nov. (L83/405), application for an additional subscription to the improvements to the Neath to Merthyr Tydfil turnpike road at Dulais, Nov. (L83/421) and a proposed Glamorgan Vale Union Railway, Dec (L83/450).