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A typescript account prepared by Dr Siriol Colley, niece of Gareth Vaughan Jones, entitled 'A Short Account of the Life and Murder of Gareth Jones', focussing in some detail mainly on the situation in Inner Mongolia in 1935 and the circumstances and events which led up to the capture and murder of Gareth Vaughan Jones in August 1935.

The items include a typescript memorandum, 20 December 1932, by Gareth Jones entitled, 'Impressions of Germany, December 1932'; a printed memorandum, 12 July 1933, to the General Secretary of the World Monetary and Economic Conference on the situation in Russia; and a long typescript memorandum, [c. 1933], by Gareth Jones entitled, 'The General Survey of Agricultural Conditions in USSR'.

Photocopies of source materials assembled by Dr Colley during the course of her research for her book. These include newspaper columns, press articles by Gareth Jones, and typescript articles by Gareth Vaughan Jones.

Photocopies of documents taken from the Lloyd George Papers at the Parliamentary Archive at the House of Lords, including memoranda, 1930-1932, entitled 'The Prospect of the Five-power Naval Conference'; 'The Empire after the War', 'Soviet Russia', 'Disarmament', and 'Imperial Conference'.

Letters to Gareth Vaughan Jones, including letters from D. Lloyd George, 1931 and 1933, Frances Stevenson, 1933, (relating to Gareth Vaughan Jones's work for Lloyd George); and Sir Robert John Webber, the Western Mail, 1931 and 1934 (relating to Gareth Vaughan Jones's career). There are stray papers concerning Gareth Jones's period at Trinity College, Cambridge, as a researcher in the employ of David Lloyd George, and while working for Ivy Lee at New York. There are also some of the research papers of Dr Siriol Colley, 1998-2001.

Photocopies of documents, 1931-1933, from the Lloyd George Papers held at the Parliamentary Archive at the House of Lords. There are memoranda, presumably prepared by Gareth Jones, 1930-1933, on the Five-Power Naval Conference; the American Tariff; The situation in Palestine; Poland after January 1931; the Gandhi-Irwin Agreement: its Effects upon India and upon Politics in England; 'Conversation with M. Litvinoff, at Moscow, March 23, 1932'; and Soviet Russia and the Caucasus. There are also photocopies of several letters from Gareth Jones to David Lloyd George.

Transcripts of articles by Gareth Vaughan Jones including 'The world in 1931: a retrospect of the banking cris', published in the Western Mail, 21 December 1931, and others on Germany and Russia.

Includes a photograph of Lloyd George, Dame Margaret and Megan, c. 1930; brochures, c. 1930-1933, advertising Gareth Jones's lecture tours in the United States; and miscellaneous stray items concerning his travels.

Miscellaneous press cuttings, including a long series of articles by David Lloyd George, dated 1938, on the 'Coupn' general election of December 1918, the Peace of Versailles and Germany; and tributes to Lloyd George following his death in March 1945.

Correspondence and papers, 1999-2003, commemorating the life of Gareth Jones, including print-outs of reports in press columns, correspondence concerning the award of the Gareth Jones Travelling Scholarship, and print-outs from various websites concerning Gareth Jones, especially concerning the Ukranian manmade famine of 1932-1933.

Most of the letters are from A. J. Sylvester, Principal Private Secretary to Lloyd George, to Major Edgar Jones, father of Gareth Jones. There also photocopies of the journal The Critic for 24 August 1935 which contains a tribute to Gareth Jones.

Letters to G.V.J. The correspondents include Ernest Benn (20/39), Rev Gwilym Davies (20/43), D Lloyd George (20/32), Stephen King Hall (20/16,20), Malcolm Muggeridge (20/36,44), Bernard Pares (20/7,11, 13 and 33), Wickham Steed (20/27,29), A J Sylvester (20/21,22) and Evelyn Wrench (20/30).