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The letters concern an article on Sir Frederick Maurice which Sir John Kennedy was preparing for the Dictionary of National Biography. There are two draft replies from Frances and a photocopy of a letter from Sir John Kennedy relating to 'The Burnt Paper' sent for publication to The Spectator.

The file consists of letters concerning governmental business and administration, including Ireland and international affairs. One of the letters, dated 3 April 1924, is addressed to D. Lloyd George.

The letters discuss a wide range of subjects: the maintenance of Lloyd George's grave; the writer's interests and activities; publications about Lloyd George and reflections on his life and contribution; and arrangements to meet.

The letters from Sir Stuart give personal, family and domestic news. Those from Sylvia comment on The Years that are Past (1967) and on her mother's death.

Many of the letters give domestic and family news and arrange meetings. Some letters refer to the possibility of D. Lloyd George writing a foreword to Sir William Beveridge's book on Peace, and one, dated 28 December 1954, discusses Frank Owen's Tempestuous Journey: Lloyd George, his life and times (London, 1954).

The file contains miscellaneous stray letters written by various members of the Lloyd George family, mainly to Frances Stevenson. The file includes letters from William George (14), 1933-1964, Edna Lloyd-George [1930s], Gwilym Lloyd-George (4), 1918-1920 and 1946, Megan Lloyd George [1930s], Owen Lloyd George, 3rd earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (2), 1964-1969, Richard Lloyd-George, second earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (2), 1939, and Gladwyn, Lady Goronwy Owen, 1970. These are all stray letters and have no common theme. They include a few references to political developments and events. Some give family news.

The letters give personal news. Press cuttings are attached.

Letter signed (‘Baldwin of Bewdley’) to “My dear Lloyd George”, reading “A telegram seems a mean form of message on such an occasion, hence I grasp my pen to send you my warm good wishes and congratulations for this milestone of a birthday. Don’t dream of replying, but if Megan were to call on me when I am in London - and she has been kind enough to come and see me- and if she could tell me that this note has given you half the pleasure to read that it has given me to write, I shall be happy. I have forgotten the
Welsh Ted taught me when I went to ..fifteen years ago, as I would have added a word to mark the occasion”; and a letter signed by William Max Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook), reading “You have been given the best birthday celebration in history. My attachment to you is constant. My devotion is fixed and immovable in my life. I would grieve deeply if you doubted my loyalty. The newspapers have
never wavered in your support. My restraint of late is due to my support of Winston. He rides high, wide and handsome”,

The file comprises letters which relate to the locations of the various 'Freedoms' conferred upon D. Lloyd George during his lifetime and bequeathed to Frances at his death in 1945.

Letters, 1950-1972, mainly from historians and writers, relating to their research work on D. Lloyd George, details of publications and fees paid, notably in connection with Frank Owen, Tempestuous Journey: Lloyd George, his Life and Times (London, 1954). The file includes letters from Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook (6), 1950-1964, Martin Gilbert [1960s], John Grigg, 1968, and A. J. P. Taylor, 1972.

The file comprises stray letters to D. Lloyd George, mostly of political interest. The file includes letters from Winston Churchill, undated, Lord Dawson of Penn, 1931, King George VI (telegram), 1945, General Douglas Haig, 1916, George Lambert, 1932, J. Ramsay MacDonald, 1932, Sir Herbert Samuel, 1932, D. A. Thomas, Viscount Rhondda, 1917, and Colonel T. F. Tweed, 1940. The letter from Lord Dawson of Penn advises Lloyd George in the wake of the political and constitutional crisis of August 1931.

A copy of the writ, 12 February 1945, summoning Earl Lloyd-George to the House of Lords, and two letters relating to the same.

The file includes correspondence and papers relating to various projects intended to commemorate Lloyd George's name in North Wales: the making of his grave into a national memorial, the erection of ornamental gates and the building of labourers' cottages at Tŷ Newydd; the building of a Lloyd George memorial library, museum or memorial college. There is a large number of letters from Clough Williams-Ellis to Frances.

Correspondence and papers, 1955-1970, relating to various proposals for statues and memorial tablets to commemorate David Lloyd George: a statue of Lloyd George in the members' lobby of the House of Commons unveiled in December 1963, and a memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey unveiled in July 1970. The file includes letters from Nigel Birch, 1955, Clough Williams-Ellis, 1970, Dingle Foot (4), 1969-1970, Owen, third earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (4), 1969-1970, Geoffrey Rippon (2), 1963, William Lloyd-George, 2nd viscount Tenby, 1970, Jeremy Thorpe, 1970, and Harold Wilson (3), 1969.

The file includes papers relating to the erection and running of the Lloyd George Museum at Llanystumdwy, and to the appointment of Miss Ann Parry as its curator. There is also a typescript list of the sympathy letters received on 30 and 31 March 1945 following Lloyd George's death.

The letters concern mainly the use of the Lloyd George Papers (originally in the Beaverbrook Library, later transferred to the custody of the Record Office at the House of Lords) by researchers, the press and the media, and related questions of copyright. Some of the letters relate to various events organised to commemorate the name of D. Lloyd George. The file includes letters from Richard Dimbleby, 1949, Sir Dingle Foot, 1952, Jan Smuts, 1948, and Leonard Stein, 1951.

Various photographs, many of David Lloyd George and of Bron-y-de, Churt, together with a large collection of press cuttings, many of these reviews of books relating to Lloyd George. Many of the reviews are of the volume edited by A. J. P. Taylor, Lloyd George: a Diary by Frances Stevenson. Other cuttings concern members of the Lloyd George family.

The file consists of letters and papers, 1957-1971, relating mainly to the care of Lloyd George's grave at Llanystumdwy on the banks of the river Dwyfor, but some concern local celebrations of the centenary of Lloyd George's birth in January 1963, a visit to the grave by the Queen and Prince Philip in the following August, and the protest made by the Council for the Preservation of Rural Wales in 1969 against the proposed 'desecration' of the River Dwyfor, a protest with which Frances associated herself. The file includes letters from James Morris (Jan Morris), 1968, and Harold Wilson, 1968.

Correspondence with publishers and literary agents relating to the proposed publication of articles and works written by D. Lloyd George, notably the War Memoirs, and an article entitled 'Why the Jew is persecuted'.

Photographs, postcards and artists' impressions, c. 1890-1961, of various landmarks at Llanystumdwy including the village smithy, Llanystumdwy (Lloyd George's 'first parliament house'), Highgate (Lloyd George's boyhood home), Ty Newydd, Lloyd George's grave on the banks of the River Dwyfor, and the Lloyd George Museum.