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Thirty-one holograph and autograph letters and postcards (surnames A-G), 1874-1934, addressed to the Rev. C. Tawelfryn Thomas. Frequent references to the Rev. Evan Jones (Ieuan Gwynedd) in the correspondence relate mostly to Thomas's biography, Cofiant Darluniadol Mewn Rhyddiaeth a Chân i'r Diweddar Barch. Evan Jones... (Dolgellau, 1909).
The correspondents are [Professor, aft. Sir] E[dward] Anwyl, Aberystwyth, 1896 (2) (a letter to Dr. [Andrew Martin] Fairbairn [principal] of Mansfield College, Oxford, on behalf of a student, the Anglican influence at Oxford, a tendency by students to reject religion, the influence of Dr. Fairbairn and Mansfield College); [the Rev.] R[obert] G[riffith] Berry, Gwaelod y Garth, [18]96 and undated (2) (preaching engagements); Ben Bowen, Ton, Pentre, [19]02 (the writer's ill health, his voyage to [South] Africa, the return trip via the Red Sea, a visit to Pompeii and Naples); [the Rev.] B[en] Davies, C[astell] N[ewydd] Emlyn, 1929 (autobiographical details); Evan Davies, Bala, 1902 (information relating to [?the Rev.] W[illiam] J[ones, 1784-1847, Congregational minister] and his father); [John Davies] (Taliesin Hiraethog), [the] Green, [nr] Denbigh, 1888 (thanks for the list of competitions at Caerphilly eisteddfod, preparatory work on a pryddest on the subject '[Henry Morton] Stanley', sending recipient copies of his awdlau 'Gorsedd' and 'Unigedd' and his rhieingerdd '[Elwy ac] Alwen', leisure hours spent in adjudicating and organising literary meetings, a chair won by [the Rev. William Thomas] (Glanffrwd) at Dolgellau, favourable opinions of the awdl 'Victoria'); T[homas] J[ones] Dyke, Merthyr Tudful, [18]95 (a request for recollections of the Rev. Griffith Hughes [1775-1839, Congregational minister]); Owen M[organ] Edwards, Llanuwchllyn, 1915 (2) (an article and booklet by recipient on the Rev. J. D. Williams [1823-56, Congregational minister]; see Cymru, cyf. XLIX, and C. T. Thomas, Y Diweddar Barch. J. D. Williams… (Caernarfon, 1915)); W. T. Edwards, Cardiff, 1906-14 (2) (a memorial tablet by Goscombe John ? to be set up in the chapel at Whitecross (Y Groes-wen), reluctance to become a trustee ? of recipient's church); Beriah [Gwynfe Evans], Caernarfon, 1900 (attacks on the writer's book [Diwygwyr Cymru (Caernarfon, 1900)] in Yr Herald Cymraeg [19, 26 June 1900], points relating to the said book particularly its treatment of Howell Harris); the Rev. D[aniel] Gwenffrwd Evans, Gelli, Pentre, 1926 (recipient's impending retirement, preaching engagements); [the Rev.] D[avid] Silyn Evans, Aberdar, [undated] (a request for an article for Dysgedydd y Plant); [the Rev.] D[avid] Tecwyn Evans, Birkenhead, 1917 (2) (preaching engagements); [the Rev.] E[van] H[erber] Evans, Carnarvon, 1874 (personal, preaching engagements, a call to the writer from a church in Bath, points relating to Y Dysgedydd); Hugh Evans (publisher), Liverpool, 1934 (thanks for material received, the writer's proposed book on fairy tales [Y Tylwyth Teg (Liverpool, 1935)]); John Evans, Merthyr Tydfil, [19]19 (appreciation of recipient's short biography of the Rev. J. D. Williams [see above]); the Rev. Owen Evans (co-editor of Y Dysgedydd), Liscard, 1908 (forwarding reminiscences of Ieuan Gwynedd); W. Evans, Aberayron, [18]88 (information re the Rev. M[oses] Rees [1796-1856, Congregational minister]); Thomas Gee (publisher), Denbigh, 1885 (the adoption of Mr. Alfred Thomas [aft. baron Pontypridd] as prospective [parliamentary] candidate by the Liberals [in the East Glamorgan constituency]); D[avid] Lloyd George, House of Commons, 1894 (recipient's approval of the attitude taken by the writer, [David Alfred] Thomas [MP for Merthyr, aft. viscount Rhondda], and [Francis] Edwards [MP for Radnorshire, aft. 1st bart.], would recipient write to Alfred Thomas [MP for East Glamorgan], the need to direct public opinion 'so as to form a thoroughly strong independent Welsh party'); Ifor Griffith, Llanfair Caereinion, [19]08 (a promise to obtain information re Ieuan Gwynedd); and the Rev. Alex[ander] B[alloch] Grosart (of Dublin), from Llanfairfechan and Barmouth, 1896 (5) (enquiries concerning a copy of the poems of the Rev. William Williams (Caledfryn), namely Caniadau Caledfryn [(Llanrwst, 1856)], and of the account of his life [Cofiant Caledfryn, ed. By Thomas Roberts (Bala, 1877)], comments on the poem 'Y Gog').

Letters, 1900-1995, of miscellaneous provenance. Correspondents include A. J. Balfour (1) 1916, W. H. Davies (2) 1912-1913, Lyubov (Aimée) F. Dostoevskaya (1, in French) 1924, Owen M. Edwards (4) 1900-1916, David Lloyd George (4) 1911-1919, Megan Lloyd George (3) 1948-1951, Richard Hughes (6) 1923-1935, Augustus John (7) [1918]-1950, Daniel Jones (2) 1972-1981, David Jones (1) 1966 (discussing some of his paintings), Jack Jones (2) 1938-1939, Saunders Lewis (5) 1951-1965, Wallis Simpson, later Duchess of Windsor (1) 1937, Edward Thomas (1) 1901, and Ralph Vaughan Williams (1) [1940].

Lists of candidates for Welsh constituencies and their biographies, for UK Parliamentary Elections between 1935 and 1964, consisting mainly of copies of press cuttings. The file also includes a photographic print titled 'Jim Griffiths with Welsh Labour MP’s – 1951’, and a photocopy of a print titled ‘Welsh Constituency Delegates to Labour Party Conference, Margate, 1950'.

Typescript draft, with manuscript emendations, of the opening chapters of an unpublished autobiography by Gwilym Lloyd-George, giving an account of his childhood and education, his parliamentary career during the 1930s, and concluding with a description of his visit, in the company of his father, to Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden in 1936. Also included are manuscript notes and a newspaper cutting relating to the work.

One hundred and twenty-four autograph letters, 1959-1974, from painter-poet David ('Dafydd') Jones, all addressed to Valerie ('Elri') Wynne-Williams (née Price), with the exception of two to her husband Michael ('Mihangel') (ff. 54, 112-113) and one to them both (ff. 55-56), discussing a variety of topics including his, and her, health and living conditions, his work, his friends, the Welsh language and Welsh history and politics. Some letters are illustrated with coloured pencil, pen and ink drawings, mainly of animals and flowers (ff. 8, 32, 33, 45 verso, 46 verso-47, 48 verso, 76, 103, 104 verso, 152), inscriptions (ff. 9, 34, 124 verso, 128, 136 verso) and sketch maps of Harrow (ff. 143, 144).
There are references throughout to friends and correspondents including Saunders Lewis (ff. 2-11 passim, 42-188 passim), Harman Grisewood (ff. 4-192 verso passim), René Hague (ff. 42 verso-187 passim), David Blamires (ff. 160, 186, 190 verso, 192), Louis Bonnerot (ff. 123, 186 verso), Tom Burns (ff. 13, 14 verso, 48, 64 verso, 68 verso, 77, 85 verso, 86 verso, 89 verso, 110, 116, 140 recto-verso, 188 verso), Douglas Cleverdon (ff. 68 verso, 160 verso, 162, 163 verso, 187), Aneirin Talfan Davies (ff. 9 verso, 11, 14 verso, 16, 33 verso, 63 verso, 71 verso, 123, 124, 128, 129 verso, 154 verso, 162), Clarissa Eden (f. 107 verso), T. S. Eliot (ff. 51 recto-verso, 62 verso, 67 verso, 69 verso, 71, 73, 74, 85), Gwynfor Evans (ff. 29 verso, 31, 131-192 verso passim), Illtud Evans (f. 6, 11 recto-verso, 37, 46 verso, 57, 61), Arthur Giardelli (ff. 150, 151 verso, 171 verso, 186), Eric Gill (ff. 45 verso, 66, 67 verso, 68 verso, 121), Stanley Honeyman (ff. 84, 140, 154 verso, 159 verso), Morag Owen (ff. 59, 98, 140), Catherine Rousseau (née Ivainer) (ff. 36 verso-127 passim), Stephen Spender (ff. 81 verso-82, 83 verso, 91), Bill Stevenson (f. 158 verso) and Helen Sutherland (ff. 68, 97 verso, 157). There are also occasional references to Desmond Chute (f. 120 verso), Idris Foster (ff. 60 verso, 63 verso), Philip Jones Griffiths (ff. 1, 131), David Lloyd George (ff. 108 verso-109, 127 verso), Megan Lloyd George (ff. 18 verso, 20, 21-22), J. D. Innes (f. 49 verso), Augustus John (f. 85 verso), Alun Oldfield-Davies (ff. 37, 77), Tristram Powell (ff. 142 recto-verso, 144), Caradog Prichard (ff. 19 verso, 77, 108), Kathleen Raine (f. 59 verso), Keidrych Rhys (ff. 6 verso, 8, 9, 16, 30 verso, 36 verso), Meic Stephens (ff. 171, 175), Vernon Watkins (ff. 47, 128 verso), D. J. Williams (f. 106 recto-verso), Kyffin Williams (ff. 49, 63, 77) and R. O. F. Wynne and his family (ff. 61, 62, 63, 64 verso, 67 verso, 81, 94 verso, 96 verso¸ 98, 130 verso), and brief reminiscences of his experiences during the First World War (ff. 70 recto-verso, 76, 79 recto-verso, 108 verso-109, 130 recto-verso, 151 verso, 164). Also included is a copy of his letter, dated 10 August 1959, to Megan Lloyd George (f. 21; for her reply see NLW, David Jones (Artist and Writer) Papers CT3/3, f. 247); cuttings of letters to the Times by David Jones, Valerie Price and others, 1958 (ff. 193-196); and a copy of a 1959 photograph of the two by Philip Jones Griffiths (f. 197). The letter of 23 September 1973 (ff. 178-179 verso) was published under the title 'Yr Iaith' in Planet, 21 (January 1974), 3-5.

'Ode to Charity', a translation into English [by Ebenezer Thomas ('Eben Fardd')] of the 'awdl' on the subject 'Elusengarwch' by David Owen ('Dewi Wyn o Eifion'). The translator's name is not given but a note at the top of the first page reads 'Rec'd a Sovereign from J. Maughan Esqr. for Translating this'. There are some notes and emendations in pencil in another hand. On the last page, following the translation, are thirty-eight lines of an elegy in Welsh, (?) incomplete, on the death of [Frederick, Duke of York]. Pasted in at the beginning is a press cutting headed 'Darlith i'r Saeson. Araeth Mr Lloyd George. Bywyd a Barddoniaeth Cymru' giving an account of an address Lloyd George gave as chairman of a concert at Llanystumdwy.

A draft letter on 'Tariff Reform and the Welsh Slate Trade' sent to the Manchester Guardian by Charles E. Breese, 1909; and correspondence, 1918-1923, by Horatio Bottomley, H. B. Randolph, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, J. Glyn Davies (general secretary of the North Wales Temperance Association), D. Lloyd George and A. Bonar Law (recognition of Charles E. Breese as the Coalition candidate for Caernarvonshire, 1918), Willoughby Gardner, John E. Greaves, W. R. Hughes, Edward Jones, Llanllyfni, K. Jones, Portmadoc, the Marconi International Marine Communication Co. Ltd., J. Pritchard, Llanberis, Sidney Robinson, and Sir Robert J. Thomas.

Photocopy of the acknowledgement card, in Welsh, sent to Margaret Jones, Tremadog, and her husband by David Lloyd George, following his eightieth birthday in January 1943; and to photocopy a photograph of Lloyd George's coffin being carried by the Tŷ Newydd, Llanystumdwy, estate workers in March 1945.

Letters from Brandon Davis concerning the exhibiting of art works, including a portrait of David Lloyd George, at his gallery in London.

The papers include a copy of a 'confidential' report, 31 August 1916, by H. A. L. Fisher entitled 'The Settlement of Europe'; notes on the state purchase of the brewing industry; the Debenham recommendations; a memorandum on questions sent to the War Office, 1916; a list of deputations received by Lloyd George on 3 November 1916; a draft in the hand of David Davies of Lloyd George's letter of resignation, 2 December 1916, to Asquith, endorsed, 'Dft letter - 2/12/16 S of S to PM' (There is a draft of the letter in the Parliamentary Archive at the House of Lords, London, Lloyd George Papers E/2/23/11]; an undated letter [c. 1-2 December 1916], from 'Dafydd bob man' [Major David Davies MP] to 'Chief' [David Lloyd George], encouraging him to resign from the government: 'It is only the strong man who can pull the country through & the strong man takes risks'; and an undated letter from David Davies to Lloyd George, late 1916, on the conduct of the allied war effort; and a memorandum on 'Imperial Organisation' [1916].

Correspondence and papers relating to David Davies's visit to Russia in January 1917, together with some material on the establishment of the Prime Minister's Secretariat by Lloyd George.

Includes letters from Lewis Morris (3), Eleanor Hull, T. Fisher Unwin, Harry Speight, J. Strachan (2), H. R. Reichel (2), Paul Vinogradoff, R. A. Stewart Macalister (6), Goddard H. Orpen (3), T. Mansel Franklen (10), D. Lloyd George, Rowland Ellis, Robert Cochrane (2), W. Warde Fowler (2, one enclosing a letter from Georg Wissowa), Marcus N. Tod, E. S. Dodgson (16), Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington (Earl Carrington), A. O. Vaughan ('Owen Rhoscomyl') (7), J. Glyn Davies (5), Norman Lockyer (2), J. H. Hessels, Betha Hills-Johnes, J. Jenkins ('Gwili'), James Hastings, Robert Mowat, P. M. C. Kermode (6), Kuno Meyer (2), W. R. Morfill (2), Hugh Williams (2), F. Haverfield (3), Edward Clodd (4), E. Maunde Thompson, E. Sidney Hartland, Patrick Lyons (9), John Beddoe, John Williams, E. Lorimer Thomas, John Garstang, Julio de Urquijo, Otto Franke, Camille Jullian (6), B. Nogara, O. A. Danielsson, E. Vincent Evans, H. Gaidoz, Émile Espérandieu, Sidney Herbert (Earl of Pembroke) (2), George Eley Halliday, W. H. Preece, Douglas Hyde, T. H. Thomas (14), E. P. Wright (2), Maurice FitzGerald (Duke of Leinster), W. Baldwin Spencer, S. H. Butcher, A. W. Howitt, J. Romilly Allen (4), T. Herbert Warren, Alfred P. Graves (2), E. C. Quiggin, E. Ch. Babut, W. H. Stevenson, D. Brynmor Jones (2), F. Carruthers Gould (2), Paul Meyer, T. C. Evans ('Cadrawd') (2), J. Mortimer Angus, William Osler, W. Llewelyn Williams, W. Temple (2), Francis J. Jayne, John Edward Lloyd, Martin Hume (2), Henry Owen, Frederick York Powell, Evan Jones ('Ieuan Buallt'), and Marcus Hartog.

Includes a photograph of Lloyd George, Dame Margaret and Megan, c. 1930; brochures, c. 1930-1933, advertising Gareth Jones's lecture tours in the United States; and miscellaneous stray items concerning his travels.

Fifty-eight letters and cards, 1889-1953, fifty-five of which, 1889-1948, were sent to Sir W. Goscombe John from various correspondents including sculptors, artists, statesmen and politicians, relating mainly to his career as a sculptor and to honours bestowed on him.
The correspondents include H. H. Asquith, 1910 (ff. 4-5), Lilian Baylis, 1929 (ff. 7-8), James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury, 1912-1913 (ff. 12-14), George Clausen, 1898-1899 (ff. 15-18), Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth, 1912 (ff. 19-20), Sir Cyril Fox, 1940-1948 (ff. 34-35), George Frampton, 1907 (f. 36), David Lloyd George, 1910 (ff. 39-40, 42), Alfred Gilbert, 1899 (ff. 43-44), Edmund Gosse, 1899, 1919 (ff. 45-48), Augustus John, 1928 (f. 49), Edward Burne-Jones, [1889], [?1893] (ff. 53-55), Sir Lewis Morris, 1899 (ff. 58-59), Sir Edward J. Poynter, 1917 (f. 63), Auguste Rodin, [1902] (f. 66), John Singer Sargent, [?1907] (f. 70), John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquis of Bute, 1937 (ff. 75-76), and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1890-1911 (ff. 77-80). Also included is a note in the hand of King George V, 1911 (f. 38), copy letters from Goscombe John to David Lloyd George, 1910 (f. 41), and Queen Mary, 1932 (f. 57), and one letter, 1953, to his daughter, Mrs Muriel Fildes, from D. Dilwyn John of the National Museum of Wales (f. 50).

Notes and transcripts, [1968]-[1973], from various volumes and historical works on David Lloyd George, together with some press cuttings.

Contracts, 1922, relating to the proposed publication of Lloyd George's War Memoirs by Cassell's and purchase by the Sunday Times, including the two principal contracts sealed and signed by the directors of the publishing house and Sir William Berry respectively (but not the author), and ten memoranda for foreign rights, three signed by Lloyd George and one counter-signed by Frances Stevenson.

Some of the letters relate to the purchase of an estate at Coulin in Scotland by David Davies. Includes letters from Rev. Gwilym Davies, Principal J. H. Davies, Cwrt Mawr, Mrs Annie J. Hughes-Griffiths, Colonel D. Watts Morgan MP, and Frances Stevenson (writing on behalf of D. Lloyd George).