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Comprises files related to various Welsh affairs including speeches given at events and Lord MacDonald's interest in Welsh broadcasting.

Files relating to Gordon MacDonald's tenure as Governor or Newfoundland; primarily dealing with the administration of the dominion, official engagements and the arrangements for deciding its future which resulted in Confederation with Canada in 1949. The Sub-fond includes correspondence, drafts for speeches and radio broadcasts, employment, relations with the Newfoundland Commission of Government, groups campaigning for and against confederation and negotiations with the Canadian Government.

Sub fonds comprises correspondence and other papers related to Gordon MacDonald's role as Controller of Fuel and Power for the north west of England and north Wales and various speeches and radio broadcasts made mainly before and during the Second World War.

Files related to Lord MacDonald's work on behalf of the UK Government in international forums including the United Nations General Assembly and trade a development conferences as well as files related to a broadcast on international affairs.

Original file of general RSPB kite correspondence (orig. file ref. 1003). The original file cover (discarded) was entitled "RSPB Kite Correspondence, 1958-66. 'Dead' file per Andy Jones" and endorsed "RSPB 'dead' file, 'rescued' from recycling". The file mainly comprises letters addressed to Mr Brown, secretary of the RSPB, and P. J. Conder, assistant secretary, and copy replies, 1958-1968, many from Captain H. R. H. Vaughan, including relating to the kite reward scheme; "you will be interested to hear that I have unearthed, pretty nearly literally, Kite correspondence dated way back to 1900 and something", 9 Sept. 1959; the transfer of RSPB's early kite papers to Morrey Salmon, Jan. 1960; the RSPB's purchase of part of the Cawdor estate at Ystrad-ffin, co. Carm., 1963-1967; the switch by farmers from arsenical sheep-dips to dips containing dieldrin, including a recommendation to read Rachel Carson, 'Silent spring', 1963-1964; the proposed Llyn Brianne reservoir, 1965; the RSPB's purchase of Mrs Mappin's Ynys-hir estate, co. Card., 1966-1967; a proposed extension of the Pendine Proof & Experimental Establishment danger area, 1967; the lack of Welsh representation on the "Countryside in 1970" conference, 1968; and a newspaper cutting reporting the award of the RSPB gold medal to Captain and Mrs Vaughan, 1968.