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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].

The memoranda include a list of recruits for the period January-July 1916; memoranda on the stokes gun, co-operation between GHQ and the Ministry of Munitions, Lloyd George's proposed visit to France; H. W. V. Temperley, 'Political Influences in connection with Strategy and Diplomacy'; memoranda on fuses, bombs, red flares etc.; the Army Pay Department; details of committees set up to advise the War Office Contracts Advisory Committee; memoranda on canteens and refreshment houses, trench mortars and ammunition, and the Debenham recommendations.

Correspondents include W. J. Hemp, 1938, Lady Lonsdale, 1902, Col. William Murray-Threipland, 1915-1918, the Earl of Powis, 1937, W. A. Spooner, 1924, John Bourchier Stracey-Clitherow, 1917-1918, Baron Clive Wigram, Robert Vaughan Wynn, sixth Baron Newborough, and the War Office, 1917.

The memoranda, 1916-17, relate to the work of the War Office, the Ministry of Munitions and the Ministry of Pensions and Food. They include 'Notes on Possible Terms of Peace' by L. S. Amery, 11 April 1917; letters, 1916-17, addressed to Major David Davies from officials in the Ministry of Pensions and the Ministry of Munitions and Food; draft letters, September 1916, addressed to Sir Douglas Haig on the possible withdrawal of university men from the Expeditionary Force; memoranda on munitions; Army Council instructions, 1916; a copy of the Report of the Departmental Committee on Land Settlement for Discharged Sailors and Soldiers, 1916; and memoranda on tanks.