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Letters and drafts of letters, mainly relating to the administration and sale of Ystradgynlais leases.

The volume ends with the words: 'This book appears to me to be of no use only causing extra trouble to keep and it only contains the old Estate Men not all the permanent men employed therefore I do not wish it continued, but each man employed to make out his own monthly account to be certified by Mr Rosser and included in the monthly pay sheet. (signed) H. Edgar Thomas, 27th Feb 1908.'

A wages book and health and unemployment insurance stamp account. The estate is not identified, but the surname Bufton suggests the Breconshire estate. Most of the wages are paid four-weekly, but there are three quarterly wages, David Jones, keeper, Rees Jones, keeper, and Mrs M. Jones, caretaker.

The file includes printed resolutions of a meeting of the subscribers to the Brecon benevolent schools, with reports of the progress of the boys' and girls' schools, and list of subscribers, 1814; and six letters relating to the Blackwood drill hall, 1864-1870.

Letters and other papers relating to the Great Forest of Brecon, mainly to shooting rights over Waun Tinker, 1888-1890, in dispute as a result of Lord Tredegar's purchase in 1888 of the Crown's interests in the commoners' allotments there, created by the Award of 1819. Also the proposed purchase of the commoners' rights in the limestone quarries at Penwyllt by the Neath & Brecon Railway Company, 1880-1890, the Great Forest of Brecknock Bill, 1893, and the proposed purchase of much of the forest by Swansea Corporation, 1920. Also a chemical analysis of water taken from an unnamed lake, 1889.

Letters and other papers relating to the company and its holdings.

Letters and other papers, mainly relating to the Pontardawe RDC and Ystradgynlais RDC Cwmtwrch Waterworks Joint Committee's lease of a spring on Glyncynwal Farm in the parish of Ystradgynlais. Other papers relate to a proposal by Pontardawe RDC to tap Ffrwdlâs and Ffynonlâs springs north of Dorwen farm in the parish of Ystradgynlais, 1909-1910, and a proposal by Ystradgynlais RDC to take water from a spring on Tredeg Farm, 1910.

Letters and papers relating to the Palleg Railway between the Phoenix Tinplate Company Ltd's Gilwen works at Lower Cwmtwrch in the south and Craig-llwyd and Waun-llwyd in the north, and the Gurnos Wharf, p. Ystradgynlais. The correspondence mainly arises as a result of uncertainty as to the land intended to be let in 1861 to the Swansea Vale Railway Company for their Palleg branch, constructed in 1862, and the land occupied by the Midland Railway Company as successors to the Swansea Vale Railway Company.