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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 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.

Stating that mediation would not be accepted by France.

Believes Americans were trying to get terms for France on the reduction of indemnity principle; difficulty has been that neither of the two parties had been anxious to get Britain's good offices at the same time.

Enquiring about the date of Hart's telegram; would be glad that hostilities between France and China should come to an end.

Tseng had told him that he was hoping that Granville's answer would bring more moderate terms from his Government; he had not expected them to be transmitted to the French, but a beginning had to be made.

Reporting that negotiations between China and France were not going well.

Reports that France was adhering strictly to terms they communicated; asks for copy of telegrams sent last Friday.

Informing him that Tseng had officially communicated to him the Chinese proposals; would be serviceable if Rendel let the Chinese know that the Japanese were much tempted by the French proposals, if he could do it without the chance of its being brought home to me.

Hart asking if steps had been taken in accordance with his suggestion.

Transcribes telegram from Hart to the effect that France had requested American mediation; America had proposed that China should pay an indemnity which China indignantly rejected and with America discredited Germany must win all along the line.

Stating that Hart was eager to know whether his suggestion had had any result.

Stating that he had sent Knight to Walmer with a note for Lord Granville.

Believes that, while France would not accept arbitration, the French press seemed to favour mediation.

Transcribing a telegram from Hart to the effect that Germany also advised China to pay and that Russia was moving to disengage, France possibly preferring English complication; continues that it would be a good opportunity for England to advise China not to pay and make lasting alliance with China, fated to be the chief power in the East.

Seeks to show that Lord Granville had received Hart's telegram before the Times correspondent's telegram appeared, giving details of the interview between the American Minister and Li Hung Chang; Campbell had seen the French Ambassador to warn him of the activities of a young German Chinese Customs Official on leave from China for mental reasons, who had been writing pamphlets on the Tonquin question and who was the cause of rumours in the Paris papers that a German Receiver of Customs in China, Herr Kleinwachter, was to see Bismark to settle the indemnity; Waddington believed that there was a good chance of peace if the principle of an indemnity were acknowledged, but there was a difficulty in securing the faithful execution of engagements, as behind Li were the Yamen and the court intrigues; France would hold Kelung as a temporary pledge only; suggests that England should have recommended China to acknowledge the principle of indemnity, leaving open the question of the amount and nature of it, France possibly agreeing to accept certain commercial advantages on the Tonquin Frontier; with this information leaves Rendel to judge whether he could make any profitable use of Hart's last telegram.

Informing him of Hart's statement that Germany had also advised China to pay and that Russia was moving to disengage France, also of Waddington's statement that there was a good prospect of peace, if the principle of indemnity was acknowledged (see 1839); also suggests that Britain should advise China to offer commercial advantages on the Tonquin frontier in lieu of cash; Britain should seize opportunity of making China Britain's biggest market and strongest ally in the East.

Hart's telegrams to effect that China would not even consider the principle of an indemnity; Britain should not join with other powers in backing up French claims; if France believed herself entirely in the right, why should she object to mediation or even arbitration; Fournier erasures made in pencil bore the evidence of truth.

Transcribing telegram from Hart to the effect that, though China would perhaps pay under protest, she would never acknowledge the indemnity principle; French forces had been repulsed at Tamsuy; Campbell asks if France would now declare war and send an expedition to Peking in the Spring?; contrasts the present position to the previous occupation of Peking; at that time Canton was in our hands; the war was not unpopular amongst Chinese merchants, as it was to open trade, and it was even possible to raise a Coolie Corps at Hong Kong, which did good service in the North; now all classes of Chinese were against the French; the riot in Hong Kong, because the Coolies refused to work for the French, had led to the calling out of the military and several men were shot, so leading the Chinese to think the English were helping the French; by means of the telegraph news spread from North to South and by this union China was much stronger than 20 years previously; for the peace of the world China and England should be fast friends; while the English Consul protested against the beheading of the French corpses, no protest made against the French for firing on burning ships and the drowning Chinese in the Min river.