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File comprises correspondence and supporting documents sent to Lord MacDonald relating to nominations for honours

File comprises letters sent to Lord MacDonald asking for his assistance and intervention on personal matters, along with drafts of replies. There is also an index to the letters in the file.

Correspondence primarily relating to Lord MacDonald's appointment as BBC Governor for Wales. Also includes copies of correspondence between Lord Douglas of Barloch and Lord Reith.

Comprises general correspondence, including letters related to Lord MacDonald's re-appointment as BBC Governor for Wales.

General correspondence, including letters to his daughter Mrs Fullard enquiring about his papers.

The file comprises fragments of correspondence and notes which cannot be matched to other items in the archive along with undated letters.

Bound cuttings from the New York Times of the serialised version of "My Three Years in Moscow". By Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith.

File comprises newspaper cuttings related to Lord MacDonald's life, career and interests including coverage of his appointment as BBC Governor for Wales, his time in Newfoundland, reviews of his autobiography "Atgofion Seneddol" and his political career.

Typescript of a translation into English of part of 'Atgofion Seneddol', translated by Dr Jones of St Helens.

Typescript entitled 'Pit Boy to Governor' by David White on the career of Gordon MacDonald up to his appointment as Governor of Newfoundland.

File comprises a speech entitled "Christ and Work" given during Christ and Life Week" on 4 May 1944 in Swansea.

Text of a speech entitled "Our Daily Bread", given in Carmarthen on 1 November 1949 on Christian ethics in the world and dealing with the distribution of wealth and food along with associated correspondence.

File comprises various speeches related to Christianity and Christian ethics, sermons and observations on Christian texts. The file contains a number of fragments which it has not been possible to match with other relevant pages.

Typescripts of broadcasts made by Gordon MacDonald on the BBC Home Service programme "The Week in Westminster"

Files related to the suspension of Responsible Government and arrangements for the subsequent governance of Newfoundland including Letters Patent passed under the Great Seal of King George V constituting the Office of Governor and Commander in Chief of the Island of Newfoudland and its dependencies dated 30 January 1934; Letters Patent under the Great Seal of King George V and dated 21 Jan 1934 appointing Frederick Charles Alderdice, Sir John Hope Simpson, William Richard Howley, Thomas Lodge, John Charles Puddester and Everard Noel Rye Trentham to the Commission of Government and Instructions passed under the Royal Sign Manual and Signet to the Governor and Commander in Chief of the Island of Newfoudland and its dependencies dated 30 January 1934,

Government House Newfoundland visitors book recording details of visitors along with the date of their visit and signatures.

File comprises a typed document, entitled "Newfoundland A Memorandum by A. P. Herbert Esq MP", one of the members of the Parliamentary Goodwill Mission which visited Newfoundland in 1942. It contains his observations on the economy, education, religion, industry, taxation as well as options for the governance of the dominion. He includes an option for Newfoundland to become part of the United Kingdom but with home rule. He observes that this would be similar to the status of Northern Ireland but warns against making this comparison in public.

A booklet published by the Alberta Department of Education to assist teachers with lessons on Newfoundland as it prepared to join with Canada.

File comprises correspondence between Governor of Newfoundland and Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations in London including a number of memos marked "top secret". Subjects include the reaction to confederation; how to deal with any protests or violence that could result from the vote and the use of the British Navy to keep order. There are also papers relating to a legal challenge to confederation issued by 6 former members of the Newfoundland House of Assembly (John Stewart Currie, John Vincent O'Dea, Frank MacNamara, William Charles Winsor, Harold Mitchell and William Joseph Browne), an appeal to the Privy Council on confederation, correspondence related to the Newfoundland Trade Commission and papers related to a telegram from a number of citizens to the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations at the United Nations in Lake Success in February 1948 expressing concern that including confederation as an option on the ballot was illegal.

Correspondence between Gordon MacDonald and the Commonwealth Relations Office.