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Volumes containing carbon copies of letters sent by J. G. Palling (1869-1880), Frederick J. Justice (1869-75, 1880-1902), H. P. Williams (1897-1905) and G. P. Mitchell-Innes (1903-1905), all of the Tredegar estate office, Newport. Besides AEC 1/1 and 1/3, which are Frederick Justice's letter books for the period Aug. 1869-Aug. 1875, the volumes (with a missing volume covering Nov. 1890-July 1891) form a single chronological sequence of volumes, passing from one agent to the next. H. P. Williams was possibly the agent's deputy or clerk, and possibly acting agent in 1902-1903, between the death of Colonel Justice and the appointment of Mitchell-Innes. Typewritten letters first appear in Dec. 1902.

The main series of letters received by the Tredegar estate. The letters were in binders variously intitled 'Mon letters <start date> to <end date>' and 'Monmouthshire and general letters', which despite their titles included letters relating to properties and interests in Glamorgan and Breconshire as well as Monmouthshire. The letters are addressed to J. G. Palling (1879-1881), F. J. Justice (1880-1902), Heber P. Williams (1902-) at the Tredegar estate office, Newport. -- The letters include a number of telegrams, accounts and receipts, as well as notices of assignments of leases and mortgages. (For a series of notices, 1900-1906, see AEC 4). The letters include letters from other Tredegar estate officers (particularly the Breconshire agent, the mineral estate agent and the London solicitor), tenants, prospective tenants, local authorities, other local landowners and estates, commercial concerns and local organisations. The commercial concerns include railway companies, collieries, ironworks, brick manufacturers, wholesalers, solicitors, timber merchants, architects and land surveyors. There are also a few letters to and from Lord Tredegar and Frederic C. Morgan of Ruperra Castle. -- The local organisations and interests are extremely varied, and the letters include applications and receipts for subscriptions and donations. The March-July 1880 letters (AEC 2/2) for example include the Bedwellte Agricultural Society (12, 14), Prince Llewellyn Lodge of Philanthropie, Blaenafon (116), Cardiff Show (103), Cardiff & Penarth Regatta (11), Chepstow Farmers' Club (143), Glamorganshire General Agricultural Society (115), Gloucestershire Agricultural Society (103), a brass band being formed in the parish of Llanfihangel Crucornau (116), Llanvetherine Ploughing Society (143), Magor Farmers' Association (113), Monmouthshire & Caerleon Antiquarian Society (13), the 1st & 2nd Monmouthshire Rifle Volunteers (116, 123), the mayor of Newport's fund relief of the distressed families of the sufferers of the late colliery explosion (9), Pontypool Football Club (145), G & H Batteries of the 1st Worcestershire Artillery Volunteer Corps, headquartered at Pontypool (3), St Mellons District Annual Ploughing Match (144) and the Usk Rifle Corps (123). -- The letters within each binder are generally in chronological order of the date of writing, each letter within each binder being numbered and indexed in the index at the front of each binder. However some letters have earlier letters in the same correspondence grouped with them; the dates of these letters, which can be months earlier, are not taken into consideration in the covering dates of the binders. There are gaps in the numbering sequence within some of the files, and scraps of paper found on the spikes of the original binders are evidence that some letters were torn out, probably being required in the continuing management of the estate. Very occasionally a note was added to the file, or endorsed on an adjacent letter, as to what had happened to the extracted letter. Some letters were later returned to the file, pinned to adjacent letters. Almost every binder has a few letters at the back, out of date order. The letters in the binder covering Jan.-Feb. 1902 (AEC 2/77) are the most out of order, probably due to the upheaval caused by the death of Colonel Justice. -- From July 1902, ring binders with alphabetical dividers were used instead of spiked binders. The letters are not numbered and indexed, merely filed in roughly alphabetical order. -- The original binders and ring binders were rusty and dirty, and have been discarded. The letters from each binder have been kept together as a file.

Files of letters, 1898-1905, that do not form part of the main series of letters received. The first file (AEC 3/1) extracted from a binder entitled 'Tredegar Estate', comprises letters, 1898-1900, mainly relating to Cardiff, Roath and Pontypridd, although there are also a number of letters relating to Newport. The remaining original files (AEC 3/2-11) comprise letters, 1903-1905, originally filed in rough alphabetical order in a series of ring binders. Two groups of loose letters and related papers, 1794-1939, has been appended to the series (AEC 3/12-13). These various groups of letters have been brought together for convenience; there is no suggestion that they originally formed a single series. The original binders have been discarded.

Bundles of notices of assignments of leases, mortgages and assignments of mortgages of leasehold properties. They appear to relate entirely to the Tredegar town estates in Cardiff, Newport and Pont-y-pridd. Many of the notices have been annotated with what appears to be a reference to the appropriate folio in the rent ledgers. The notices for 1900-1903 were formerly filed in chronological order in binders, and the notices for 1903-1906 were formerly in rough alphabetical order of assignee in concertina files. The binders and concertina files have been discarded, the contents of each forming a file. -- A number of notices are included in the main series of letters, including for property in Newport. It is not clear whether those notices should have been filed with these notices, or whether some distinction was made between the two sets of notices.

Audit books of the Dderw, Palleg and Tredegar estates in Breconshire, and the successor post-1806 Breconshire estate.
The books contain the settled accounts (the 'audits') of the Breconshire and Dderw estates. The audit books generally consist of fair copies of the rental and of any other accounts for which the agent was responsible, generally including casual profits and promiscuous payments. On most estates these audited accounts between the agent and the owner were loosely called rentals; on the Tredegar estate they were called audit books. -- There are three series of audit books: the main series, 1762-1927 (ABA 1), a series of copy audit books, 1872-1915 (ABA 2), and rough copy audit books, 1887-1915 (ABA 3). Two copies of the audit books were prepared during the period 1868-1889, one for the estate and one for the agent. Some of the volumes are inscribed either 'Mr Carlisle' or 'Mr Thomas', Lord Tredegar's auditor and agent respectively. The estate's copies are in ABA 1, while the agent's duplicates form series ABA 2, except for the period 1873-1886, where the agent's copies are in the main series at ABA 1/14, 16 and 18, in place of missing volumes. Starting in 1890, when only one copy of the audit was made, the remaining space in both ABA 1/19 and 20, the duplicate books started in 1887, was used before starting a new volume. Thus ABA 1/20 contains the audits for 1887-1891, and ABA 1/19 the audits for 1887-1889 and 1892-1893. -- The series of settled accounts ends in 1915 with ABA 1/26, although there were presumably further volumes, as ABA 1/26 also contains summaries of various payments, 1921-1927. -- In 1847 the rental consists of properties in the parishes of Cantref, Defynnog, Y Faenor, Garthbrengi, Hay, Llandyfalle, Llan-ddew, Llandyfaelog, Llanfihangel Nant Brân, Llanfilo, Llanhamlach, Llansbyddyd, Llys-wen, Merthyr Cynog, Penderyn, St David, St John the Evangelist and Ystradfellte, tithes in the parishes of St John the Evangelist and St Mary, the Palleg estate in the parish of Ystradgynlais. By 1867, rents in the parishes of Llandeilo'r-fân, Llanfihangel Fechan, Glasbury, Llywel and Ystradgynlais are included, as are ground rents in Ystradgynlais and Brecon, and tithes in Ystradfellte.

Copies of the audited accounts between the estate agent and the estate owner. Some of these volumes are more in the nature of drafts, and include remarks relating to increases and decreases in rent and to rents written off that are not included in the final version of the audit (eg, 'a decrease of £1-0-4 for building burnt down', 1872, Llan-ddew). From 1891 these copy audit books contain the rentals only, although ABA 2/15 (1903-1905) contains the accounts of H. Edgar Thomas with Lord Tredegar for woods and plantations; private bills; rents, rates and taxes; management expences including salaries and wages; subscriptions, donations and pensions; Coutts & Co.; improvements; and repairs.

Copies of payment accounts in respect of the Breconshire estate. Many of these volumes appear to be drafts or rough copies of the fair copies in ABA 1 and 2, with much crossing out and large parts written in pencil. The volume for 1906 (ABA 3/15) was reused in 1915.

The series comprises rent ledgers 'F', containing ledger accounts relating to the farm rents in the Breconshire estate country parishes.
The Breconshire estate ledgers (ABA 4-7) contain the accounts of the individual tenants with the landlord, 1867-1941. Each account continues for the period of the tenancy, with the balance of account transferred from the old ledger to the new ledger. The tenantry of the Breconshire estate are divided into sub-estates, creating four series of ledgers: Brecon rents (B), 1868-1923, Dderw estate rents (D), 1916-23, Farm rents (F, for the 'country' parishes), 1867-1921, and Palleg estate rents (P), 1867-1941. The covering dates of some of the volumes in the same series can overlap, as busy accounts were often transferred to new ledger while slower accounts lingered in the old ledger. Consequently, volumes tended to be discontinued well before they were full, when the slower accounts were finally transferred en masse to the new ledger. Some of the rent ledger volumes include an index of tenants' names. -- Most of the properties in this series of ledgers appear to have been sold in 1915, and some of the other accounts are balanced and transferred to 'Ledger D' (ABA 7/1).

The series comprises rent ledgers 'P', containing ledger accounts relating to rents on the Palleg estate. Many of the properties were sold to Nolton Estates Ltd in 1937.

The series comprises rent ledgers 'B', containing ledger accounts relating to rents in the parishes of Brecon St David and St John. Most of the properties were sold in 1915, with the remaining properties transferred to 'Ledger P' in 1923.

Rent ledger 'D' of J. H. Rosser of the Dderw estate office, Llys-wen. Most of the properties were sold in 1921, and the remainder were transferred to 'Ledger P' in 1923.

Collection books, being day books of moneys received on rent days (and between rent days) for the Brecon and Palleg estates.
The ledger and folio to which the individual moneys are forwarded is usually noted, and include ledgers B (Brecon), C, F (Farm rents), P (Palleg) and S. References to ledgers C and S only appear in the first year, 1868, after which they disappear. References to ledger D (Dderw) appear in 1916 (ABA 7/1), and receipts forwarded to ledgers B and F are greatly reduced over the following few years, many Brecon and Farm properties having been sold, although references to ledger F continue until at least 1921, and to ledger B until at least 1923. References to ledger T (Therrow? =Dderw) appear in 1921, although there are also a few references to a ledger T in 1888 at least. ABA 8/4 forwards receipts to ledgers P and T only.

Cash books, being day books of payments and receipts.
The cash book account ends on 15 July 1940, when the balance of £32 16s. 3d. is transferred to "J. F. Storrar's agency", and the book is closed on 1 Oct. 1940 when the same sum is transferred to the agricultural estate account with the National Provincial Bank, Newport. -- ABA 9/5 and 9/7 are draft cash books covering the period 1894-1921.

Copies of Isaac Davies of Brecon's bills numbered 1-10, 12-70, for surveying work in the Breconshire estate, and summaries of these and other bills.

Papers relating to the Finance (1909-10) Act 1910. ABA 12/1-3 are mainly files of papers and loose papers relating to the valuation of land and the completion of land owners' returns on duties on the value of the land, including Forms 1 (Land: notice to make returns), 2 (Land: instructions for making returns on Form 4), 4 (Land: return to be made by an owner of land or any person receiving rent in respect of land), 7 (Land: claim for site value deductions), 35 (covering letter accompanying Form 36), 36 (Land: provisional valuation), 38 (Land: amended provisional valuation), and 172 (Land: undeveloped land duty), while ABA 12/4-5 are copy land owners' returns.

Loose vouchers, 1842 and 1902-1934, and an incomplete series of original bundles of numbered Breconshire estate vouchers, 1921-1938.

Insurance policies and related papers, 1850-1922, monthly Breconshire estate office pay sheets and supporting vouchers, 1921, and half-yearly accounts of arrears of Ystradgynlais rents, 1929-1934.

Press letter books of out-going letters of the Breconshire estate. The 1861-1870 volume is numbered 'No. 2', so there was at least one earlier volume.

Letters received by the Breconshire estate office, relating to the administration of the estate. These include a number of original files of letters, mainly of letters from J. E. W. Rider, Tredegar's London solicitor, 1911-1915, and letters to J. H. Rosser, the Breconshire estate agent, and his draft replies, 1927-1930. However, most of the letters were found loose, including further letters from Rider and draft letters of Rosser.