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Typescripts of a detailed diary kept by Stuart Rendel of his conversations with William Ewart Gladstone between 1888 and 1898, with manuscript amendments. The reminiscences have been published in The Personal Papers of Lord Rendel, ed. by F. E. Hamer (London, 1931), pp. 52-156.

Correspondence of Lord Rendel. Unless otherwise stated the letters in this section are addressed to Lord Rendel. The collection also includes holograph letters and copies written by Rendel himself to various correspondents. There are also items relating to the correspondence of Lady Rendel and other members of the family and a few miscellaneous letters which passed between other persons.

An additional group of correspondence, 1882-1912, and reminiscences, 1888-1898, of Stuart Rendel (1834-1913), Liberal MP for Montgomeryshire.

Photocopies of forty-five letters, in German, from George William Rendel to Dr Otto Grüters, together with translations into English. R44/46-7 are press cuttings.

Photocopies of thirty-nine letters, in English, from George William Rendel to Dr Otto Grüters.

Photocopies of twenty-six letters, in English, from Dr Otto Grüters to George William Rendel.

Photocopies of letters and papers following the death of Dr Otto Grüters, comprising his memorial service card (R47/1) and correspondence between George William Rendel and Hilde Grüters, the daughter of Dr Otto Grüters (R47/2-6).

Arranged into Foreign Office work, 1917-1980 (L), correspondence files, 1912-1982 (M), the Catholic Union of Great Britain, 1942-1979 (N), personal papers, 1929-1980 (P), and family and personal papers, 1908-1980. The letter O has not been used.

Papers of Stuart Rendel and family members, including papers relating to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and the proposal to establish the National Library of Wales and its development during the early years of its existence, 1883-1916; speeches, addresses and political papers relating to disestablishment of the church in Wales and the 1889 Intermediate Education Act, 1882-1909; press cuttings, 1881-1913; photographs, 1892; miscellaneous letters, 1878-1912; letters to Stuart Rendel, 1853-1912, including letters from A. C. Humphreys Owen, 1877-1905, family letters, 1853-1902, and letters from prominent political figures and Welsh public figures; letters and copies of letters from Rendel, 1880-1912; diaries, mainly recording details of Stuart Rendel's business activities, 1863-1869; notes of conversations with W. E. Gladstone, John Morley and H. H. Asquith, 1888-1910; papers relating to Chinese affairs and French and Chinese peace talks, 1884-1886; papers of James Meadows Rendel, including letters, 1828-1856, and papers relating to his estate, 1856-1859; letters of Catherine Jane Rendel, 1845-1855; letters and papers of George Wightwick Rendel, 1871-1902; papers relating to Rendel's other brothers, 1841-1889, and his daughters, 1882-1910; letters and papers of Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel, 1898-1959, and other papers concerning him, 1963-1977; papers, mainly letters, of the Goodhart family, 1819-1957; papers of Miss Rosemary Rendel, 1986-1996; papers of Sir George William Rendel, including: Foreign Office papers, 1917-1967, correspondence, 1912-1973, papers relating to the Catholic Union of Great Britain, 1942-1979, lectures, diaries and notes, 1915-1954, personal and family papers, 1908-1980, and material relating to the book The Sword and the Olive (1957), 1954-1986.

Correspondence, mainly photocopies, between George Wightwick Rendel and his wife Lina (née Licinia Pirelli) and Cardinal Guglielmo San Felice, archbishop of Naples. There are letters, 1890-1896, from Guglielmo San Felice to Lina Rendel; letters, 1893-1894, from George Wightwick Rendel to Guglielmo San Felice; and letters, 1896 and undated, from Lina Rendel to Guglielmo San Felice. There is also a single letter, 1902, from Cardinal Herbert Vaughan, archbishop of Westminster, to Lina Rendel, and papers, 1890-1895, relating to Guglielmo San Felice. The papers are accompanied by letters, 1996, between Miss Rosemary Rendel and Don Antonio Illibato, the diocesan archivist at Naples, correspondence initiated by Miss Rendel when attempting to find her father's baptismal certificate.

Resents the implications of Morley's letter (see 898), which he could only forgive because it was actuated by sympathy for Gladstone; but would withdraw his final 'no' and would 'do his utmost to reconciling myself for Gladstone's sake to going down'; states that he would go to co. Mont. on Monday and do his utmost to get out of the mess.

Congratulating him on his victory.

Concerning Rendel's objection to the presence of a Whitworth Company agent at the trial of some gun mountings, on the ground that they were not yet Admiralty property.

Inviting him to stay at Duffryn during his visit to Cardiff for a meeting of S. Wales MPs.

Expressing the opinion that the address was not the best way of raising a cartain matter, but that there should be a substantive motion, which he would support.

He was unable to induce the Hong Kong people to admit his opium hulks, but had succeeded in coming to a satisfactory arrangement with regard to permits and a form of co-operation on condition that Macao would do likewise; gives an account of his negotiations with Governor Roza and the Portuguese Government; talks on the Tonking delimitation were still going on and the sudden decision of the Yamen to bring the 1885 additional opium article into operation entailed a great deal of work; he was now to take charge of the 'blockade stations' around Hong Kong and Macao and to work them with his own men not merely for the opium revenue work, but for the collection of ordinary revenue on general merchandise in native bottoms and of special taxes for the Canton Viceroy's provincial Government; he would like to get hold of Chinese finance as a whole and by just collection and proper payment of adequate salaries to all Chinese officials lighten the real but not the legitimate burdens of the people and kill the dishonesty of the official world by removing the official poverty, which caused it to grow; hoped that the customs revenue would amount in 1887 to 20,000,000 taels as opposed to 5,000,000 in 1861; discusses the possibility of his retirement to make way for a younger man; the trip which the Emperor's father made last May to Port Arthur had had excellent results, since it made the chief adviser of the Throne see with his own eyes foreign men and ships and other novelties; believes the Anglo-Chinese treaty re Burmah was wise, but the delay in putting Burmah in order was likely to fire the frontier and force China into action of one kind or another; it was essential for China that Corea should remain a tributary or be incorporated and governed as a Chinese province; Japan would resent incorporation, but without it Corea would be subjected to Russian intrigues; Corea's customs were now being worked by Hart's men; discusses the settlement reached in the matter of the Nagasaki riot; was doing his best to keep China's hands peace-wards in the dispute over the Tonking delimitation; Port Arthur, in the process of being fortified by German engineers, had been put up to competition and a French syndicate had got the contract; China now in position to borrow at 51/2% interest; the railway contract had been given to the American firm of Russell & Co. and not to Krupp; report of an understanding between Germany and China in the event of fighting with France, which would make Germany master of the East, pointing out what millions of Chinese troops led by German officers could do.

Accepting an invitation to dinner.