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Holograph, autograph, and typescript messages of greetings for publication in the first number of Y Cymro, 3 December, 1932. The writers include D[avid] Miall Edwards; Ifan ab Owen Edwards (with a covering letter from R. E. Griffith); D[avid] Emrys Evans, University College of North Wales, Bangor; D[avid] Tecwyn Evans; D[avid] Lloyd George (with a covering letter from A. J. Sylvester); Peter Hughes Griffiths; W. J. Gruffydd; E[dward] Ernest Hughes; John Jenkins ('Gwili'); C[adwaladr] Bryner Jones; and T. Gwynn Jones.

Gohebiaeth, 1939-1942, yn ymwneud ag achos Iorwerth Peate yn wrthwynebydd cydwybodol, yn cynnwys llythyrau gan Idris Bell (8); E. N. Bennett (2); Henry Bird; E. G. Bowen; Aneirin Talfan Davies (7); Clement Davies (llythyr at Robert Evans, Llanbrynmair); George M. Ll. Davies (9); Ithel Davies; Leonard Twiston Davies (17); Pennar Davies; Walter Dowding (3); Ifan ab Owen Edwards; T. I. Ellis (7); D. Owen Evans (9); Gwynfor Evans (2); Robert Evans, Llanbrynmair (5, ynghyd â dau lythyr ato gan Clement Davies); H. J. Fleure (10); R. L. Gapper; David Lloyd George; William George (3); Charles Green (3); Ll. Wyn Griffith (7); J. Gwyn Griffiths; Jim Griffiths (6); W. J. Gruffydd; W. F. Grimes (3); I. D. Hooson; D. R. Hughes (3); J. G. Moelwyn Hughes (4); Ronw Moelwyn Hughes (8, yn eu plith mae dau lythyr at 'Mr Jones'); Harold A. Hyde (3); Norah Isaac; R. T. Jenkins (3); William John (3); E. K. Jones (5, ynghyd â thorion o'r wasg yn trafod yr achos); E. P. Jones (19, yn eu plith mae llythyrau gan Jim Griffiths a John Harries (Irlwyn)); Frank Price Jones (4); Gwilym R. Jones; T. Gwynn Jones (3); David Lewis (8); Elena Puw Morgan; Herbert Morgan (2); John Morgan (2); Frank Murphy (2); J. Middleton Murry (2); T. E. Nicholas (10); R. G. Owen (4); R. Williams Parry; Tom Parry (8); T. K. Penniman (28); D. O. Roberts (4); Evan Roberts (10); Hywel D. Roberts; R. U. Sayce (2); Alf Sommerfelt (2); Ben Bowen Thomas (5); Herbert M. Vaughan (2); D. J. Williams (4); Ifor Williams (3); J. L. C. Cecil-Williams (9); a Morris T. Williams. -- Yn ogystal, mae'r ffeil yn cynnwys papurau amrywiol yn ymwneud â'r achos yn cynnwys llythyrau gan Cyril Fox (20); cefnogaeth i achos Iorwerth Peate gan amryw unigolion a sefydliadau, yn eu plith tystlythyrau gan Leonard Twiston-Davies, W. J. Gruffydd a George M. Ll. Davies; datganiadau gan Iorwerth Peate; a deunydd printiedig.

The file includes letters from A. W. Wade-Evans, David Lloyd George, John E. Gorst, Ellis Jones Ellis-Griffith, Richard Griffith ('Carneddog'), John M. Howell, Aberaeron (2), D. Brynmor Jones, Leif Jones (2), J. Herbert Lewis, A. C. Humphreys-Owen, Glansevern, Bishop John Owen, Henry W. Primrose, A. Osmond Williams, H. Cernyw Williams, and W. Llewelyn Williams (2). Some of the letters refer to O. M. Edwards's work as Liberal MP for Merionethshire; they include some constituency correspondence.

Seventeen holograph letters addressed to Mrs. (aft. Lady) [Mary Louisa] Ramsay. The writers include A[lfred] G[eorge Edwards], bishop of St. Asaph, 1893-1900 (Boswell Smith's letters, the recipient's leaflet, with comments on its revision and its translation into Welsh), James Geikie, Jedburgh, 1874 (the recipient's paper on the Upper Rhine Valley, the writer's visit to 'the country of Dandie Dinmont', - the head of the Rule Water), W[illiam] Basil [Tickell Jones], bishop of St. Davids, 1893 (Boswell Smith's letters, comments on the Welsh Suspensory Bill and on a meeting of Nonconformists at Amlwch), M[ary] E. Lyell [from London], 1861 (comments on Mrs. [S. M.] Hall's letter) (see NLW MS 11588D) J[ohn] Owen, St. David's College, Lampeter [aft. bishop of St. Davids], [18]95 (the recipient's letter, an attack on Anglesey clergy by the Reverend Daniel Rowlands of the Normal College, Bangor, the remark about Mr. Lloyd George's 'mendacious audacity', the recipient's comments on the Welsh clergy of sixty or seventy years ago), J[ohn] Rhys (loan Rhys), Rhosybol, Jes[us] Col[lege], Oxford, etc., 1865-1871 (thanks for offer to show the writer's papers to friends, etymology, the writer's candidature for an exhibition at Jesus College, Oxford, and his subsequent petitions to the City Companies for exhibitions, the writer's Celtic studies, comments on Scottish Lowland names, the writer's acquaintances in Oxford, the writer's choice of a profession), Lucy Tait, Lambeth Palace, on behalf of [Archibald Campbell Tait], archbishop of Canterbury, 1895 (a request by the Church Literature Committee for permission to print part of the recipient's letter to The Times), Charles Williams [Principal of Jesus College], Oxford, [18]72 (the Marquis of Bute’ s secession to the Roman Catholic faith, references to Miss De Bunsen and Miss Johnes and to the coming-of-age festivities of Mr. Herbert, grandson of Lady Llanover [aft. 1st baron Treowen], the beauties of Oban, the price of coals), W[illiam] Wynn Williams, Menaifron, Caernarvon, 1862 (the writer's visit to Cefn cave, the Madocian discovery of America, news of the family and of friends, an execution at Beaumaris, Caernarvonshire assizes) (with an enclosure entitled 'Welsh Indians' transcribed by the writer from the Cambrian Register, 1795, pp. 377-80); together with verses entitled 'Glynirvon, a lifelong memory' and signed 'Feb. 8th 1850. Montgomery'.

Llythyrau, 1935-1982, gan gynnwys rhai oddi wrth R. Lambert Gapper (4, yn cynnwys cerdyn Nadolig a gynlluniwyd ganddo); David Lloyd George (ynghyd â llythyr oddi wrth Frances Stevenson); Megan Lloyd George; W. R. P. George (2); Tore Gjotterberg (6); Raymond Gower (2, yn amgau llythyr gan Iain Macleod ynglŷn â Gwrthwynebwyr Cydwybodol); Kenneth Grayston; Ll. Wyn Griffith (19); Bruce Griffiths; J. Gwyn Griffiths (2); James Griffiths (5); Geraint Gruffydd (2); W. J. Gruffydd (5); Arfon Gwilym; Robin Gwyndaf; ac Eirwen Gwynn (3).

Gohebiaeth, 1928-1952, rhwng Iorwerth Peate a W. J. Gruffydd. Yn eu plith ceir llythyrau gan Jim Griffiths, William George, a H. J. Fleure; llawysgrif o ddarllediad W. J. Gruffydd, 'Yeoman's English' (1935); torion yn ymwneud ag erthygl W. J. Gruffydd 'The case against a National Council of Education for Wales', 1935; a llythyrau yn trafod achos Iorwerth Peate yn wrthwynebydd cydwybodol. -- Yn ogystal, mae'r ffeil yn cynnwys papurau, 1942-1943 a 1945, yn ymwneud ag ymgyrch etholiadol W. J. Gruffydd ar gyfer sedd Prifysgol Cymru yn y senedd, gan gynnwys llythyrau gan E. G. Bowen; David Davies (2); D. J. Llewelfryn Davies (4); E. Tegla Davies; Clement Davies; Leonard Twiston-Davies; D. Owen Evans; D. Tecwyn Evans (2); David Lloyd George (telegram); William Thomas Havard; Ernest Hughes; R. T. Jenkins (2); W. Goscombe John; E. K. Jones (4); Tom Jones (2); Thomas Artemus Jones; John Edward Lloyd; J. Dyfnallt Owen; Thomas Parry; Percy E. Watkins; J. Lloyd Williams; a Stephen J. Williams. Ceir hefyd ddatganiadau wedi'u harwyddo yn cefnogi ymgeisyddiaeth W. J. Gruffydd; anerchiadau etholiadol; a deunydd amrywiol, yn cynnwys cofnodion cyfarfodydd Pwyllgor Lleol Caerdydd i gefnogi W. J. Gruffydd, a thaflenni printiedig.

Papers, 1931-[c. 1963], of Gwilym Lloyd-George, including notes for a speech on foreign affairs, delivered at a meeting of the Liberal Party in Scarborough in 1939; letters and papers, 1941-1942 and 1951-1953, relating to his work in the ministries of Food and Fuel and Power; and a speech on the Suez Crisis, delivered at St Pancras Town Hall in 1956; together with miscellaneous notes relating to his father, David Lloyd George.

Papers, [c. 1927]-1950, of Sir Goronwy Owen (1881-1963), Liberal MP for Caernarfonshire, 1923-45, and Liberal Chief Whip, 1926-31, comprising mainly notes for speeches, including 'Findings on afforestation' (MS 23666C, ff. 5-13); 'Coal Power' (MS 23666C, ff. 31-7); 'Yr Eglwys a Heddwch y Byd', 1934 (MS 23667C, ff. 1-28); 'Notes for Speech on Democracy', 1942 (MS 23667C, ff. 123-44); 'Anglo-Soviet Treaty', 1943 (MS 23667C, ff. 145-59); a draft tribute to David Lloyd George, 1945 (MS 23667C, ff. 168-71); and 'Hawliau Cymru fel Adran o'r Deyrnas Gyfunol' (MS 23667C, ff. 191-202); together with a copy of Goronwy Owen's election address, 1931 (MS 23666C, ff. 85-6), and letters to him from David Lloyd George, 1937 (MS 23667C, f. 105), and Clement Attlee, 1950 (MS 23667C, f. 172).

Miscellaneous papers, c. 1890s-1939, relating to David Lloyd George, arranged in roughly chronological order, including The Labour Standard, no. 2, 18 February 1902, containing an article on Lloyd George (ff. 10-11); copy of a memorandum, 1910, by Winston Churchill to the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, proposing the abolition of the House of Lords (ff. 17-23); note of the Committee on War Indemnity's recommendations, 1918 (ff. 48-9); and a typescript article, 1927, by Dame Margaret Lloyd George, Petticoats behind Politics (ff. 61-70).

The file comprises the will of Dame Margaret Lloyd George, 1936; extracts from the will of Colonel T. F. Tweed, 1940; the will of David Lloyd George, 1943; accounts, 1947, relating to the estate of Captain Harry Davey; and the will of Frances, Dowager Countess Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, 1972. In some cases letters relating to the administration of the estates are attached to the probate documents.

Papers from the library of Eleazar Roberts, musician, of Hoylake, including letters to him from John Curwen, (a glossary of technical musical words), D. Lloyd George (one signed by George Haw), 1901- 1909 (personal, opinion coming round 'our way', a recitation), Chas. Tudor Hughes, of Messrs, Hughes & Son, Wrexham, 1906 (the sales of the recipient's publications), [Professor Sir] Henry Jones, Bangor, 1891 (the recipient's note, the writer's 'new home', the recipient's Tonic Solfa work), R[ obert] H[ughes] Jones [author of Drwy gil y drws, etc.], Upper Brighton, [19]07 (observations on the recipient's reminiscences), R[ichard] Lloyd, Criccieth, 1900-1910 (thanks for a cutting, an extract from a letter from Ll[ oyd] G[eorge], the recipient's 85th birthday, a present for Megan Arfon Lloyd George, observations on the recipient's Owen Rees), and 'Diogenes', 'Y Twb, Holly Bank [Liverpool]', 1910 (observations on the recipient's 'Ysgrifau'); a memorandum, 1910, by Eleazar Roberts of the presentation by him to Megan Arfon Lloyd George of a copy of Hymnau a Thonau published in 1861; a Christmas card from D. Lloyd George, 1909, bearing the sender's portrait; etc.

Papers of William George, Criccieth, consisting of his personal and family correspondence, diaries and notes, 1881-1960, and papers relating to his publications and public life (including political, legal, religious and Welsh cultural material), 1883-1958, together with diaries, 1881-1915, of Richard Lloyd ('Uncle Lloyd'), and a considerable amount of correspondence and other papers relating to members of the George family, the Lloyd family and the Lloyd George family, 1766-1981. Of particular interest is a very substantial group of papers of David Lloyd George, including: correspondence with William George, mostly 1886-1918; diaries, 1878-1892; letters from prominent politicians, 1879-1913; other letters, including many to family members, 1883-1928; letters from his secretaries, 1906-1963; and working drafts and notes in preparation for his speeches.

Postcard showing David Lloyd George and his daughter Megan at a podium. Lloyd George is laughing at something his daughter has said. The card is addressed to Mrs. Edgar Jones, Barry, and signed by A. Jones. Postmarked 1938.

Album containing 90 postcards, the majority of north & mid Wales including Abergele, Aberystwyth, Bae Colwyn, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Bow Street, Caernarfon, Llandudno, Llaniidloes & Rhyl.

Papers of David Robert Daniel, comprising, material relating to Thomas Edward Ellis, MP, including diaries, exercise books, speeches and election addresses, correspondence of Thomas Edward Ellis, including correspondence with D. R. Daniel, papers of his political career, copies of diaries and letters, memoirs by others and papers relating to the death of T. E. Ellis, [c. 1854x1934]; material relating to David Robert Daniel, [c. 1869x1931], including diaries, manuscript volumes and notes on places, his family and various individuals, some being eminent Welshmen, school and college papers, letters and cards to and from D. R. Daniel, including some from public men and women, relations and his wife, and miscellaneous and family papers; material relating to the North Wales Quarrymen's Union and the Penrhyn Quarry Strikes, [1878xc.1903], including reports, pamphlets, cuttings, correspondence, discussions, resolutions, and newspaper cuttings; together with material relating to David Lloyd George, including letters and cards to D. R. Daniel and to Mrs S. E. Daniel, some of which are from David Lloyd George and Megan Lloyd George [c. 1890x1966].

File contains pages from Punch Magazine containing political cartoons, mostly featuring David Lloyd George.

The file comprises tributes, both typescript and manuscript, to O. M. Edwards following his death in 1920. Among those paying tribute are Sir Alfred T. Davies, Sir E. Vincent Evans, J. Gwenogvryn Evans, H. A. L. Fisher, D. Lloyd George, Sir Henry Haydn Jones, Sir John Morris-Jones, J. Puleston Jones and Sir John Edward Lloyd.

An address of homage to David Lloyd George from 'Republicans, democrats, socialists, radicals and the whole of the extreme liberal party', in Coruna, Spain, 1910, in recognition of the introduction of the People's Budget, containing an illuminated title-page on vellum and some two thousand signatures of liberals and socialists.

Album of Dr Robert Owen Morris (1859-1943), comprised mainly of material relating to his year of office as Mayor of Birkenhead, 1902-3. Included are over one hundred and fifty congratulatory and other letters, in English and Welsh, from various correspondents including Arthur James Balfour (2), David Lloyd George (2) and Sir Edward Russell (1); printed cards and programmes; and press cuttings.

Ysgrifau amrywiol mewn llawysgrif, ac un wedi ei theipio, gan y Parch. W. Glasnant Jones, [1889x1951], gan gynnwys un ysgrif ar David Lloyd George, a oedd yn brif weinidog pryd yr ysgrifennwyd y darn.