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Gareth Vaughan Jones Papers
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[Modern Photographs]

A variety of modern photographs connected with Gareth Vaughan Jones. These include a trip by Edward David to the place of GVJ's assassination ca.2005; copies of old postcards and family photographs; Chinese artefacts; Soviet propoganda posters from the 1930s brought home by GVJ.

Papers of Gareth Vaughan Jones, Major Edgar Jones, Annie Gwen Jones and Dr Margaret Siriol Colley;

Family papers, 1894-2007, including a few papers relating to Gareth Jones's parents Major Edgar Jones and Mrs Annie Gwen Jones; papers of, or relating to, Gareth Vaughan Jones, 1916-2002, including diaries, notebooks, press cuttings of his articles, letters, mainly from him to his parents and other members of his family, and papers relating to his capture and subsequent muder in August 1935; and the papers of Dr Siriol Colley, 1922-2004, mainly deriving from her research into her uncle's life, work and death, including transcripts and photocopies of relevant source materials.

Williams family of Llantwit Major,

Postcards, 1926-1934, from Gareth Vaughan Jones to members of the Williams family of Llantwit Major, relatives of the Jones family, describing his travels and his experiences. The file also contains the manuscript text of a lecture by Gareth Jones entitled 'Soviet Russia in March 1933', given to the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 30 March 1933. There is also a group of letters, January-July 2007, from Morfydd Davies Williams to Dr M. Siriol Colley reminiscing on Gareth Vaughan Jones and on the associations between the two families.

Student and travel notebooks;

The notebooks contain notes made by Gareth Jones. The earliest ones were kept while he was a student at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth and Trinity College, Cambridge, and are mainly linguistic in character. Later notes are often political commentaries and observations on international developments - in Europe, America and Russia. There are also many travel notes commenting on the countries where he travels and the people whom he meets. Some were kept while Gareth Jones was in the employ of David Lloyd George, based at Churt, and acting as a researcher for the compilation of Lloyd George's War Memoirs.

Passports,

Two passports belonging to Gareth Vaughan Jones and a passport belonging to his parents Major Edgar William and Annie Gwen Jones.

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