- 3213.
- Ffeil
- 1917, Jan. 30.
Written at 10 Downing Street, S.W. Is extremely busy. Hopes, however, to see Criccieth on Friday night, but must return to town on Saturday as is unable to leave London for very long.
13 canlyniad gyda gwrthrychau digidol Dangos canlyniadau gyda gwrthrychau digidol
Written at 10 Downing Street, S.W. Is extremely busy. Hopes, however, to see Criccieth on Friday night, but must return to town on Saturday as is unable to leave London for very long.
Written at 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, S.W. Uncle Lloyd's health: 'Have you ordered a commode for him [?]. You can put it down to my account as I want to contribute all I can to the comfort of the dear old boy'. Has given up his Saturday afternoon to settle the potato trouble. 'Yr wythnos nesa rhaid tori tafell etto o dorth y bragwr'. 'Dont forget to phone'.
Written at 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, S.W. Is glad that William George spent the weekend at Blaenau Festiniog. Wil bach's trust deed. 'I am deluged with work & I need hardly say all of the most terribly responsible character'.
Written at 10 Downing Street, Whitehall, S.W. A very busy and successful week - 'My attitude on the franchise has achieved great things. I have forced the Cabinet to take a progressive turn. I made it clear to them that I was not going to be dragged at the heel of the Tory reactionaries who support them'. Balfour has described his statement as 'the most remarkable statement he ever heard in a Cabinet'. 'It impressed them enormously and swung them round'. So has achieved much in a 'predominantly Unionist' Cabinet - 'Not a bad start for a renegade Radical and a Tory camp!' His speech in the House. The encouraging news from Palestine. 'The Imperial War Cabinets have gone off well. Megan is better, and Dick is about to marry a nice girl; so things at No. 10 are looking a little brighter'.
Letters, partially dated or undated,
Written at Ormond House, 63 Queen Victoria Street. Is going to Norwich. Does not know of a Joint Conference on the 24th. The need to fight; have put 'the other side in the wrong with the moderate men on their own side'.
Written at Criccieth. The previous day's visit to Chester. The progress of the case. Richard Lloyd's magnificent sermon. News of Dick. Has made a 'scurrilous attack' in response to C. A. Jones's epistle to Yr Herald Gymraeg. His preoccupation with legal cases the whole of the previous week. Hopes to be at Chester again on Tuesday morning.
Written at National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, S.W. Is enclosing a draft of his proposed reply and wishes it to be returned at once. William George has not yet responded to D. Lloyd George's question about the Directorate offered to him.
Written at House of Commons. Bradlaugh assisted him to secure the private Act of Parliament under which the Rhoshirwaen award was made. Discusses the provisions of section 26 of the Act. Parnell has just spoken on the Land Purchase Bill - ' a wretched speaker with the most flagrant contempt for his audience'.
Written at 13 Walbrook. Is leaving for Halifax. The speech has been fully written up. Was fully preoccupied the previous day with the general manager and chief engineer of the Great Western Railway Company. Has not yet sent the letter to Ellis.
Written at Criccieth Station. Legal matters,
Written at Nythfa, Brecon. The success of the meeting,
Written at National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, S.W. The story about Casson is humorous: 'He will make himself the laughing stock of the whole town. He is such a "gwenwyngi" & has no saving sense of humour'. Is to preside over the evening meeting of the North Wales Free Church Council at Bangor on Wednesday, and on Thursday is to lecture on John Penri at Engedi Chapel, Caernarfon. Is glad at the success of the proceedings at Bereah. Was elected president of the London Cymru Fydd the previous evening.
The writer and Alfred have been 'at it settling Johnson' who had impropriated money meant for election expenses. 'My suspicions are fully justified. I thought that was the way to squelch the chap'. Business matters.
Written at National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, S.W. Last night's 'great triumph'. Has written to Henry Haydn Jones to say that he is unable to go to Towyn.
Written at House of Commons. Legal matters. Describes his experiences at Somerset House,
Encloses a wire just received. Gwynoro's talk was cut short by his anxiety to go to Arthog,
Legal and business matters. Is suffering badly from neuralgia and fears lest his speech that evening will be 'a dead failure - a spiritless affair'. Has been unable to master his speech because all his time has been absorbed by 'this Llanbedr affair'.