Most of the correspondence and papers relates to the General Strike and the subsequent long lock-out in the coal industry. They include several letters from David Davies to various recipients advocating the establishment of arbitration machinery to resolve the dispute and making suggestions for the conduct of the negotiations. There are also notes in the hand of David Davies relating to possible terms for the re-opening of the coal mines. The file also contains two stray letters, 1904-05, from Rees Jones of the Ocean Coal Company discussing developments in the coal trade.
Successive drafts by Lord Davies of an article 'The implications of collective security', intended for publication in the journal The Nineteenth Century and After, 1934, together with related correspondence and papers.
Correspondence, papers and financial documents, 1918-56, relating to several commercial companies with which Lord Davies was involved. These include the National Tiles Ltd, the National Stone & Granite Paving Co. Ltd., Cambrian & General Securities Ltd., and the CSC Investment Trust Ltd.
Correspondence, papers, press cuttings and a photograph relating to the work of the Committee of Enquiry. They include an introductory memorandum by Lord Davies on behalf of the Welsh National Memorial Association. Includes letters from Clement Davies and Sir Kingsley Wood.
Committee of Enquiry into the Anti-tuberculosis Service in Wales and Monmouthshire.
Correspondence and papers, 1917-22, relating to the Comrades of the Great War movement. They include minutes of the meetings of its executive committee and other committees, memoranda, published annual reports and other reports, brochures, press cuttings, and a list of posts and branches in October 1918.
Copies of the official reports on the allied conference at Petrograd, January-February 1917, together with a Memorandum by the Admiralty on 'Transport Arrangements in Russia', 21 April 1917.
