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Over two hundred letters, 1898-1915, and related papers, [c. 1904]-[c. 1919], of David Lloyd George, 1st earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor. The bulk of the correspondence is addressed to Lloyd George but there are also a few notes in Lloyd George's hand. Most of the letters relate to Welsh affairs, and in particular to the Disestablishment question and the contentious Welsh Church Commission, 1906-1907; other subjects include education, the investiture of the Prince of Wales, 1911, and the First World War. For the most part the correspondents are Welsh politicians and public figures; there are also letters from the 1st earl of Halifax (1) 1914, Randall Davidson, archbishop of Canterbury (1) 1906, and Herbert Gladstone (2) 1907-1910. The main correspondents are A.G. Edwards, bishop of St Asaph (5) 1906-1915, Sir Francis Edwards, MP (18) 1903-1915, Sir Samuel T. Evans, MP (6) 1907-1908, Sir Henry Jones (8) 1906-1907, Sir J. Herbert Lewis, MP (5) 1906-1907, Sir J. Herbert Roberts, MP (9) 1906-1907, and W. Llewelyn Williams, MP (21) 1906-1915.

Letters regarding the constitution, Convention, schemes of the Governing and Representative Bodies, and commutation from Frank Morgan (11); Helen Gladstone (2 on the role of women); A. G. Edwards, Bishop of St Asaph (6); Sir John Eldon Bankes (2); Joshua Pritchard Hughes, Bishop of Llandaff (3); Watkin Herbert Williams, Bishop of Bangor (4); Gilbert Cunningham Joyce; W. P. James (4); John Owen, Bishop of St. Davids; Randall Thomas Davidson (2); the first Earl of Plymouth and others. -- Also included in the file are a 'List of Members of the First Governing Body and of the Representative Body of the Church in Wales and of Committees', 1918, 'Three Speeches delivered at the Opening meeting of the Convention of the Church in Wales', 1917, drafts, minutes, memoranda, and agendas of the Welsh Church Convention, the Governing Body, the Representative Body and the Joint Committee.