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Letters mainly to and from Lady Maria Pinfold, relating mainly to a mortgage of £7,000, secured on the Simpson Estate, Buckinghamshire, 1829-39 (L10/1-65), and a journal of the health of her husband, Charles Pinfold, 1829-32 (L10/66).

Letters including letters from George Hamilton-Gordon, earl of Aberdeen, Foreign Secretary (L11/5, 26), Onesipherous Tyndall-Bruce (L11/13, 28, 35 et seq.), Robert James Carr, bishop of Chichester (L11/27), Sir William Homan of Dromana, Co. Waterford, Ireland, being a letter of introduction of Father Sheehan, collecting subscriptions for a Roman Catholic chapel, expressing that the Catholics suffer in being compelled to support Protestant churches where they do not have their own places of worship, and that the wretched squalid appearance of their own chapels has a tendency to reconcile them to filth and misery, May (L11/31), Dr John Kaye, bishop of Lincoln, including the false rumour that he is to be preceptor to the Princess Victoria, May (L11/32), and Charles Richard Sumner, bishop of Winchester (L11/40). The letters include a reference to the abolition of the Beer Duty, March (L11/21), the appointment of Frederick Grigg as Commissioner of Arbitration at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, under the United Commission established under the treaties for the prevention of illegal slave trade, April - Aug. (L11/26, 33, 42 et seq.), the return of George Thomas Beresford and Daniel O'Connell as MPs for Co. Waterford, Ireland, August (L11/47), the French royal family at Lulworth, Dorset, Sept. (L11/49), notice of a dinner at Banbury for Montague, Lord Norreys, on his return as MP for Oxfordshire, Sept. (L11/53) and the effects of the Beer Bill, and the adulteration of beer and cider, Oct. (L11/58).

Letters including letters from William Alberti at Brompton and Milan, Italy (L12/2, 10, 56), Onesipherous Tyndall-Bruce of Falkland Palace (L12/6, 88, 110 et seq.), George Fitz-Clarence, earl of Munster (L12/51), Dr John Kaye, bishop of Lincoln (L12/65), and Sir John Mortlake (L12/72, 77). The letters include a reference to Lady Bute's carriage being attacked by a mob in Rothsay, Bute, Scotland, Jan. (L12/6-7), a memorandum, A brief statement of the reasons why the religious Society of Friends object to the payment of Tithes, and other demands of an Ecclesiastical nature: issued by the Yearly Meeting of the said Society, held in London, May (L12/33), congratulations on the Isle of Bute being granted its own MP and on its separation from the district of Cowal, Argyll, Scotland, June (L12/34), the general election, the first after the passing of the Reform Act, including references to Carlisle, Kendal, Leeds, Lyme, Peterborough, Buckinghamshire, Bute, Scotland, and Northamptonshire, and Ireland, July - Dec. (L12/45, 51-2, 62 et seq.), including a draft of Charles Stuart's address to the electors of Bute, Scotland, July (L12/45), a rough sketch of the junction of the Banbury, Wroxton and Warwick roads, Sept. (L12/69), and two memoranda, Irish Church Reform Bill, 1833, and Outline of a plan for the commutation of tithes in Ireland, [c. 1833] (L12/122).

Letters And Papers including letters from Sir John Hall (L16/55, 113, 119 et seq.), Sir Charles Shaw (L16/56, 141, 180), John Banks Jenkinson, bishop of St David's (L16/63), William Howley, archbishop of Canterbury, relating to the Church Discipline Bill (L16/108), Rev. Moses Mitchell (L16/126, 218, 247 et seq.), Frederick Grigg from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (L16/136), Charles Richard Sumner, bishop of Winchester (L16/139), Onesipherous Tyndall-Bruce of Falkland Palace (L16/168, 220, 250 et seq.), Dr John Kaye, bishop of Lincoln (L16/189, 219), Philip D Souper, secretary of the Eastern Coast of Central America Commercial and Agricultural Co., relating to the surplus population on the Bute estates in Ireland, (L16/192, 217), John Henry Manners, fifth duke of Rutland (L16/200), Joseph Snow, former editor of the Merthyr Guardian (L16/237), James Walter, author of Spirit of the Metropolitan Conservative Press (L16/264), Sir Robert H. Inglis (L16/276) and Rev. Caleb Whitefoord (L16/279). The correspondence includes a letter in French from Lord George Stuart's doctor in Milan, Italy (L16/23 ), a Bill to bring a railway and depot to Fenchurch Street, London, June - July (L16/55, 113, 119 et seq.), papers showing the decline in sugar production following the abolition of slavery in Jamaica, July (L16/126), letter refuting the allegation contained in a letter from Dr William Cullen to Lord Glenely, laid before Parliament in 1838, that the English of the Mixed Commission had received slaves hired out by the Brazilian government, July (L16/136), appointment of Col Sir Charles Shaw as chief commissioner of police of the borough of Manchester, Lancashire, July - Sept. (L16/141, 180), application for a subscription towards the rebuilding or enlargement of the church of Llangattock-Juxta-Neath, Nov. (L16/234), accounts of 'a fainting fit' suffered by the Duke of Wellington, Nov. (L16/246, 249), Lord Bute's refusal to let land for the building of a Roman Catholic church, Cardiff, a decision attacked in the Morning Chronicle and by Daniel O'Connell, Dec. (L16/276, 279, see also L17/217), papers from the National Society for promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principals of the Established Church, May - Sept. (L16/95, 182), resolutions for the formation of the South Wales Anthracite Association, July (L16/138), minutes of the first meeting and prospectus of the Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade and for the Civilization of Africa, July (L16/140), prospectus for the sale of shares in the proposed Plymouth, Pentrebach, and Dyffryn Iron Co., Merthyr Tydfil, and on the sale of the said ironworks by the proprietors, Richard and Anthony Hill, to the directors of the proposed company, Nov. (L16/262), prospectus of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Benevolent Society (L16/293), prospectus and subscription list of the Society for Promoting the Employment of Additional Curates in Populous Places (L16/294) and a petition to the House of Commons relating to the great evil of the Bank of England and country banks issuing paper money without capital, and recommending the formation of a Bank of National Account to be the only bank of issue in England and Ireland (L16/295).

Letters And Papers including letters from Henry Stuart, relating to an invitation to stand in the Conservative interest for the borough of Bedford at the next election, Jan. (L17/1, 7), Alfred Mallalieu, editor of the Merthyr Guardian (L17/14, 322, 386 et seq.), Sir Charles Shaw, Manchester police commissioner (L17/48, 211), Rev. Moses Mitchell (L17/84, 132), Mrs P. O. Rossi, widow of Charles Rossi, sculptor (L17/115), Edward Lockwood, secretary of the Bedfordshire Board of Education (L17/164), Dr John Kaye, bishop of Lincoln (L17/191, 250, 263 et seq.), Francis, seventh duke of Bedford (L17/215, 221), Samuel Gordon of Dublin, secretary of the Irish Protestant Tenantry Society (L17/217), William Howley, archbishop of Canterbury (L17/254), Onesipherous Tyndall-Bruce of Falkland Palace (L17/340, 377), J[ames] Ingram, president of Trinity College (L17/348), Hugh Percy, third duke of Northumberland, applying for Lord Bute's vote in the election for Chancellor of Cambridge University, on the death of the Marquis of Camden (L17/354), Joseph Snow, former editor of the Merthyr Guardian (L17/392) and J. W. Poundley, agricultural advisor (L17/401). The letters include references to the Merthyr Guardian, Jan. - Nov. (L17/10, 14, 20 et seq.), including that the Penny Post is hurting all newspapers in that adverts that formerly went to the papers are being sent through the post as circulars, Nov. (L17/386), letter seeking Lord Bute's advice on improving the navigation of the river Mersey and getting bonded warehouses in Manchester, Lancashire, Feb. (L17/48), the Taff Vale Railway Bill, March (L17/95), an offer to sell cabinet portraits of Lord Bute and his two brothers by [Allen] Lindsay, March (L17/106), report on the state of the Church of England's General Assembly's Foreign Missions to Calcutta, Bombay and Madras, India, May (L17/139), the state of the police in Bolton and Manchester, Lancashire, July (L17/211), the formation of the Bedfordshire Conservative Association, July - Sept. (L17/215, 221, 265 et seq.), an application in favour of the widow and children of John Williams, missionary, murdered in Erromanga in the South Seas, July (L17/216), a painting of Lady Mills by Sir James Reynolds stolen, Aug. (L17/260), the proposed London and Manchester Railway through Bedford, Aug. - Sept. (L17/275, 279, 293 et seq.), mention of a large legacy left by Mr Day, blacking manufacturer, left for the benefit of the indigent blind, Sept. (L17/301), an offer to sell letters relating to Lord Bute's family and allied families, Sept. (L17/305), the inauguration of the South Bedfordshire and North Hertfordshire Agricultural Society, Oct. - Dec. (L17/367, 380, 449), the military works at Dover Castle, Kent, shut up in consequence 'of the excited state of our neighbours and the signs of the times', Nov. (L17/376), and damage to Cardiff Docks, co. Glam., Nov. - Dec. (L17/385, 427). The papers include an appeal entitled Spiritual destitution of the parish of Bethnal Green, London, Jan. (L17/33), a circular from the Central Agricultural Society of Great Britain and Ireland against the repeal of the Corn Laws, March (L17/79), Address to the labourers, farmers, and landlords of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, calling for the formation of a League of Corn Law Associations, March (L17/107), Second report of the committee of the Irish Protestant Tenantry Society, July (L17/217), notice of a public meeting relating to the Lock Hospital, Asylum and Chapel, London, July (L17/228), an application for a subscription towards a proposed Protestant Home for British students at Paris schools and colleges, Aug. (L17/283), a pamphlet calling for the repeal of that part of Lord Lyndhurst's Marriage Act (5 and 6 William IV, c.54) that prohibits marriage with a deceased's wife's sister, Oct. (L17/343), resolutions of the final meeting of the Joint-Stock Bank Association and of a meeting at the House of Commons in favour of the economist Thomas Joplin, Aug. (L17/292), papers from the National Society (L17/452), a copy of a letter to The Record relating to Roman Catholicism in the colonies (L17/453) and a catalogue of works published by the Society of Antiquaries of London (L17/454).

Letters And Papers including letters from J. E. Thomas, sculptor (L19/1, 8, 73 et seq.), George Hamilton-Gordon, fourth earl of Aberdeen, Foreign Secretary (L19/9, 71), Dr John Kaye, bishop of Lincoln (L19/11, 46, 72), Sir James Graham, Home Secretary (L19/38, 58), Carlo, prince of Capua, Italy, (L19/42), Alfred Mallalieu (L19/64), Rev. Moses Mitchell (L19/93), the secretary of the British-American Association for Emigration and Colonization, enclosing minutes of public meetings in Edinburgh and Glasgow (L19/109) and John Douglas Edward Henry Campbell, seventh duke of Argyll (L19/228). The letters include references to the establishment of a Consul General in Cuba, March - April (L19/71, 78), a circular from Rev. J. R. Wood, secretary of the sub-committee for the endowment of an intended Diocese of Gibraltar, April (L19/88), a statement of the trustees of Rhymney Church enclosing a subscription list and reporting their inability to complete the church without more funds, and that the 8,000 people that live about the Rhymney Iron Works, co. Mon., must either neglect all public worship or drift into 'heresy and schism', March (L19/71a, see also P 10/3) and an account of the death of Captain John Windsor Stuart at Cutch, Mandavie, India, in 1826 (L19/165, see also L31/66, 68).

Correspondence between the Pantechnicon, Belgrave Square, London, and the executors of the late Lord Bute, relating to the storage of books, pictures, picture frames, furniture, mahogany and other doors and marble chimney pieces.

Correspondence, originally bundled as 'Glamorganshire Letters', relating to routine estate administration, such as leases, rents, heriots, royalties and tithes, initially being for the most part letters from the steward of the estate, but increasingly also from bailiffs, gentry, ironmasters, clergy, mineral surveyors, officers of the militia, government ministers, applicants for various posts and other individuals. Most of the bundles of letters relate to the Glamorgan estate, although letters and bundles of letters relating to other estates are also present. The correspondence also contains reports on affairs in the county and boroughs of Glamorgan, including the Commission of the Peace and the Glamorgan Militia, and also comments on the local and national economy, politics, and events.

Letters including letters from Sir Herbert Mackworth of the Gnoll (L39/4, 17, 23 et seq.), the War Office, relating to the new recruiting Act (L39/20, 25), Charles Morgan of Tredegar (L39/62), Rev. Wyndham Lewis (L39/64, 71), and Whitlock Nicholl of the Ham (L39/78) together with a copy reply from John, Lord Mountstuart (L39/3). The correspondence includes references to the destruction of woods at Fforest Cefn y Coed, p. Eglwysilan (L39/1, 18, 34), the nomination of Barth Greenwood as sheriff for co. Glam., despite the Cardiff borough charters excempting the bailiffs, aldermen and burgesses from holding office out of the town (L39/13, 17, 21-3 et seq.), petition of the borough of Cardiff to the Justices of the Great Sessions for cos Glam., Brec. and Rad., that the town hall of Cowbridge is not in a fit state to receive them, and offering to host the next, and future, Great Sessions (L39/26-8), references to the Ogmore fishery (L39/38, 45-6), copy exchange of angry letters between Thomas Edwards, the former steward of the Glamorgan estate and Robert Stephenson, steward (L39/45), and Cardiff weights and measures (L39/51).

Letters including letters from Sir William Musgrave, commissioner of the Customs, London (L40/2, 5, 29-31 et seq.), George Venables Vernon, baron Venables, MP for co. Glam. (L40/11), Sir Herbert Mackworth of the Gnoll (L40/17), Colonel Charles Stuart, brother of John, Lord Mountstuart (L40/32, 54), John, Lord Mountstuart (L40/40), Rev. Robert Rickards of Llantrisant (L40/47), and Joseph Vaughan for Messrs Harford Getly & Co. of Melingriffith (L40/70). The correspondence includes letters relating to a vacancy as tidewaiter at Newton Nottage (L40/3-6, 40), a Glamorgan society for agricultural improvement, including reference to the great increase in the demand for turnip seed (L40/9), the manorial court rolls of Llantwit, 1733-42 (L40/20-1, 25), a proposed new meat market at Llantrisant (L40/39), an anticipated general election in Oct., including [Charles] Edwin's candidature and mention of his dispute with Lord Mountstuart relating to the [?Ogmore] fishery (L40/45, 53-6) and a lease of lead mines [?at Llantrisant] (L40/47, 50.

Letters including letters from Howell Richard, overseer of the poor, p. Aberdare (L45/17), Sir Herbert Mackworth of the Gnoll, including off-prints of a letter to the editor of the Gloucester Journal relating to allegations of misconduct in the passing of the Glamorgan Turnpike Act (L45/38, 44, see also G 18), John Bird of Cardiff, in the form of a journal, Feb. 1790 - Sept. 1791 (L45/51, 53-4, 56 et seq.) and Lord Mountstuart (L45/74-5). The correspondence includes letters relating to the Cardiff ironworks, Jan. 1788 (L45/2), a rent roll of the abbot's rents in the manor of Boverton and Llantwit and the malicious killing of the bailiff's greyhound, Jan. 1788 (L45/6), the unauthorized taking of stones from Caerphilly castle for building, Feb. 1788 (L45/13-15), 'this Whim wham Morris' treating the burgesses of Llantrisant, July 1788 (L45/31), the bill of John Calvert of Swansea for a 1773 survey of Cardiff castle, Aug. 1789 (L45/44), the cost of the Cardiff to Merthyr Tydfil canal, March 1790 (L45/51), account of the election of John Stuart and Thomas Wyndham, esq., as MPs, and reference to the engagement of [?William] Yates of Liverpool to survey Glamorganshire for publication, June 1790 (L45/58) and the death of Sir Herbert Mackworth of the Gnoll from the mortification of a thorn in his thumb, Sept. 1791 (L45/71).

Letters including letters from John Wood of Cardiff, attorney, captain of the Cardiff Yeomanry and Clerk of the Peace (L49/1, 10-11, 15 et seq.), John Bird of Cardiff (L49/2, 9, 14 et seq.), William Taitt of Dowlais (L49/3, 23, 29 et seq), Henry, fifth duke of Beaufort (L49/4, 12, 25-6), George White of the House of Commons, esq. (L49/5-6, 8, 22 et seq.), Justice George Hardinge (L49/7, 86), Richard Crawshay of Cyfarthfa (L49/39, 67-9, 71-2 et seq.) and Rev. George Maber of Merthyr Tydfil (L49/60). The correspondence includes a printed booklet of an exchange of letters between William Vaughan of Cardiff, attorney, and Justice George Hardinge, MP, relating to the former's eligibility for appointment as undersheriff for co. Glam., Sept. 1801 - Jan. 1802 (L49/1), the Merthyr Tydfil Glebe Bill and the new market proposed to be established there, March 1802 (L49/3, 5-6, 8), the prisage of wine at Chepstow and Newport, co. Mon., March 1802 - March 1803 (L49/4, 26), the Glamorgan Great Sessions, March 1802 - Sept. 1805 (L49/9, 16, 28 et seq.), including printed calendars of prisoners in Cardiff gaol, Aug. 1802 and Aug. 1805 (L49/16,106), copy memorial of John Bradley, postmaster of Cardiff, to the Postmaster General describing his duties, April 1802 (L49/9), the Glamorganshire Militia and the Supplementary Militia, April 1802 - Feb. 1805 (L49/10, 15, 27 et seq.), an assurance by the Merthyr Tydfil ironmasters that any deserters found at the various ironworks will be delivered up, June 1803 (L49/36), the Duke of Beaufort's willingness to switch his support in the Cardiff boroughs from Lord Evelyn Stuart to Lord William Stuart, June 1802 (L49/12), the address of Thomas Wyndham, MP, on the dissolution of Parliament, June 1802 (L49/14), petition to Parliament for relief for Cardiff from the coast duty on coal in order to restore trade lost as a result of Newport's exemption under a clause in the Monmouthshire Canal Act of 42 Geo. III, Nov. 1802 - Feb. 1803 (L49/17, 22-25, 29 et seq.), poll of votes for the election of a surgeon to Cardiff gaol, Jan. 1803 (L49/20), an outbreak of influenza carrying off many people, April 1803 (L49/30), minutes of meetings of the lieutenancy for co. Glam., July - Aug. 1803 (L49/83), a printed account of the capture of the Dutch brig Atalante near the West Frisian Islands, Netherlands, by boats of the British ship Scorpion and the sloop Beaver, April 1804 (L49/85) and a complaint against Rev. John Jones of Gelli-gaer regarding his conduct as a magistrate, Sept. 1804 (L49/93, cf. L50/7, 9, 11).

Letters including letters from Samuel Homfray of Penydarran Place (L50/1), Thomas Wyndham of Dunraven Castle, MP (L50/2, 4, 25 et seq.), John Wood, Clerk of the Peace (L50/3, 5-6, 8 et seq.), Justice Hardinge (L50/7, 9), William Taitt of Dowlais (L50/12-13, 50-1), Sir Charles Morgan of Tredegar, co. Mon. (L50/15, 20), Rev. George Maber of Merthyr Tydfil (L50/17, 21, 79), Henry Charles, sixth duke of Beaufort (L50/24, 30, 53), Rev. John Nicholl of Cowbridge (L50/41), George Venables-Vernon, second baron Vernon (L50/54, 56), and John Bird of Cardiff (L50/90). The correspondence includes letters relating to the Glamorgan Militia, Jan. - Nov. 1806 (L50/1-3, 5-6, 8 et seq.), a new Commission of the Peace, Jan. 1806 (L50/4), reference to the death of William Pitt, former prime minister, Jan. 1806 (L50/4), a resolution to remove Rev. John Jones of Gelli-gaer from the magistracy, March 1806 (L50/7, 9, 11, see also L49/93), a proposed tax on pig iron, including the resolutions of a general meeting of ironmasters, iron merchants and exporters, addresses to Parliament, and a comparison of the effects of a tax on pig iron and a tax on draught horses, April 1806 (L50/12-13), Merthyr Tydfil church fallen down, June 1806 (L50/17), parliamentary election of Glamorgan county and boroughs, Sept. - Nov. 1806, April - June, 1807(L50/23, 33, 52-77), the prisage of wine at Chepstow, co. Mon., bought by the Treasury, Sept. - Oct. 1806 (L50/24, 31), the depredations of the river Taff, Dec 1806 - Jan. 1807 (L50/39, 42-3), the Glamorgan Great Sessions, March and Aug. 1807 (L50/46, 90), including Justice Hardinge's charge against ship wreckers, March 1807 (L50/46), and a printed calendar of prisoners in Cardiff gaol, Aug. 1807 (L50/90), seven or eight passengers and the drunken captain lost when the Cardiff to Bristol boat ran aground, March 1807 (L50/46), Napoleon's relations with other continental powers, [?1806-7] (L50/86-7), the Glamorganshire Canal Co. Dec. 1807 (L50/94) and the failure of the contractor to the Trustees of the Rumney Bridge, Dec. 1807 (L50/95).

Letters including letters from Justice George Hardinge (L55/1-4, 17, 21 et seq.), Thomas Wyndham of Dunraven Castle, MP (L55/6, 13, 30 et seq.), Henry Knight of Tythegston, colonel of the Glamorgan militia (L55/7, 9, 18 et seq.), Frederick, duke of York (L55/8), Richard Watson, bishop of Llandaf (L55/19), Richard Ryder, Home Secretary (L55/31), John Wood of Cardiff, Clerk of the Peace (L55/34, 36), Henry Addington, viscount Sidmouth, Home Secretary (L55/38, 44, 53 et seq.), and Henry Charles, sixth duke of Beaufort (L55/59). The correspondence includes letters relating to the Commission of the Peace, Jan. - July (L55/3, 12, 28 et seq.), including the John Lucas affair, Jan. (L55/3, see also L54), the Glamorgan milita, Feb. - Nov. (L55/7-11, 16, 18 et seq.), including an application by Private Enoch Francis to join the regular army to commute a conviction by a regimental court martial to five hundred lashes for theft, March (L55/11, 16), and the sentence of a regimental court martial on Private John Williams for desertion at Bristol, Aug. (L55/45), the lieutenancy of co. Glam., March - Sept. (L55/12, 31, 51), printed minutes of the Bridgend Co-operating Society for the Education of the Poor and rules of their school to be run in uniformity with the National Society, March (L55/14-15), a school in Edinburgh established on the Lancastrian system, April (L55/19, see also L55/15), appeals for mercy for Mary Robert, a prisoner in Cardiff gaol under sentence of death for housebreaking, April - May (L55/20-4, 26-7, 33), application of the committee of the Swansea Fish Society for a subscription in support of the poor, Aug. (L55/40), and the general election for the Glamorgan boroughs and county, including references to severe contests for the Carmarthen boroughs and Pembrokeshire, Sept. - Nov. (L55/55, 59-61, 64).

Letters including letters from John Wood of Cardiff, Clerk of the Peace (L57/1, 14, 28), William Taitt of Cardiff (L57/3), Henry Knight of Tythegston, colonel of the Glamorgan militia (L57/5, 8, 10-11 et seq.), Henry Addington, viscount Sidmouth, Home Secretary (L57/7, 9, 12 et seq.), John Harford of the Machen Ironworks (L57/13), Nicholl Wood of Cardiff (L57/15), John, marquis of Bute (L57/26) and Colonel Capper touching his claim on the East India Co., July (L57/37, see also L58/3). The correspondence includes letters relating to the improvement of parish bridges on the Bristol to Milford Haven turnpike at the expense of the county, Jan. (L57/1), the Glamorgan militia, Jan. - Aug. (L57/5, 7-12, 14 et seq.), a proposed watercourse from the river Ely from Ynys Plwm through Ynys Mardy Farm to power a threshing mill at Lanelay, p. Llanharan, including a report and sketch map, May - June (L57/29-31), applications for the living of Llanmaes, July - Oct. (L57/33, 36, 38-9 et seq.), complaint that a new market being held at Newbridge is injurious to the market at Llantrisant, Sept. (L57/43), a reference to the plague in Malta, Oct. (L57/44) and the return of Benjamin Hall as MP for co. Glam., Nov. (L57/45).

Letters including letters from Henry Knight of Tythegston, deputy lieutenant of co. Glam. and colonel of the Glamorgan militia (L59/5, 9-10, 21-2 et seq.), John Wood of Cardiff, Clerk of the Peace (L59/11, 18, 24 et seq.), Edward Priest Richards of Cardiff (L59/47), William Williams of Cowbridge Free School (L59/48), Henry Addington, viscount Sidmouth, Home Secretary (L59/52, 55), and Josiah John Guest of the Dowlais Ironworks, introducing himself as nephew of the late William Taitt and applying to be made a freeman of Cardiff, Dec. (L59/80). The correspondence includes letters relating to Thomas Brown's survey of the Glam. estate, Jan. - May (59/2,16, 19 et seq.), the Glamorgan militia, March - Oct. (L59/9-10, 31, 35-7 et seq.), the royalty on stones from the beach at Lavernock, manor of Cosmeston, March (L59/11), three sets of Captain Manby's apparatus dispatched for co. Glam., June (L59/35, see also L58), the Commission of the Peace, Aug. - Nov. (L59/39, 45, 49 et seq.), a toll on corn within the borough of Llantrisant and the exemption claimed by maltsters, Aug. (L59/42 cf. L60/7), a pleasure ground at Adamsdown, Aug. (L59/42), the corporation of Cardiff, Sept. (L59/47, 49), Lord Bute appointed vice-president of the Glamorgan district committee of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Sept. (L59/48), an insurrection at Merthyr Tydfil following a notice from the ironmasters that wages were to be reduced, Oct. (L59/50-6, 62-3, 75) and the Quarter Sessions, Oct. - Nov. (L59/50, 56, 58 et seq.).

Letters, 1821-1846.

Letters including letters from John, marquis of Bute (L64/3, 5), Josiah John Guest of Dowlais Ironworks (L64/10), J[ohn] Plumptre, dean of Gloucester (L64/12-13, 15-18, 20-1 et seq.), Thomas Telford (L64/14, 26, 29 et seq.), and Wyndham Lewis, MP for the Glamorgan boroughs (L64/22). The correspondence includes an application for a piece of land to erect a gasometer in Cardiff, Jan. (L64/1), an application for the living of Neath, March (L64/2-5), proposed improvements to the port of Cardiff and the Glamorganshire canal, April - Dec. (L64/8, 10, 14 et seq.), including Thomas Telford's observations on the improvements to the port of Cardiff, the Severn estuary crossing between south Wales and Bristol, and the mining districts, Aug. (L64/14), notice from the Glamorgan Quarter Sessions of the danger to bridges, the White House and Cardiff bridges from the bank made across the river Taff, Dec. (L64/31-2), the living of Cardiff, July - Dec. (L64/12-13, 15-18, 20-1 et seq.), and a prospectus for establishing a barter trade of Welsh iron, tin, wire and coal for French wines and brandies, Nov. (L64/28).