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Charles Letts's Office Desk Diary, 1936, with detailed entries, apparently in the hand of John Reginald Jones (d. 1964), in which he records the daily occurrences and problems he encountered as manager of Varteg Hill Colliery, Garndiffaith, co. Monmouth [owned by John Vipond & Co. Ltd]; included are references to the fears and unrest of the labour-force because of dangerous and adverse working conditions, and accounts of the writer's confrontations with individual miners.

Eighteen letters, 1921, from Lieutenant A. O. Gillitt of the Portsmouth C Battalion, Royal Navy, to his wife, whilst posted to Newport and Abertyleri, co. Monmouth, during the coalminers' national strike, following a mutiny by members of the Royal Fleet Reserve sent there to protect the pits.