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File contains briefing documents for candidates in the first elections to the National Assembly for Wales and for newly elected Assembly Members.

File comprises drafts of Gordon MacDonald's contributions to a radio programme entitled "Britain Speaks", broadcast on the Overseas North American Service during the Second World War.

File contains papers including a shooting script and commentary for a shipping film for Associated British Pathe Ltd. entitled "British Sovereign".

Papers relating to the British-American Parliamentary Group.

Papers relating to the Broadcasting Council for Wales including a copy of the annual report 1962-63 and correspondence and supporting documents relating to arrangements for party political broadcasts in Wales, newspaper cuttings, including material relating to Lord MacDonald's successor as Chairman.

Original file of papers relating to the British Trust for Ornithology Ornithological Atlas, mainly relating to the presentation of the breeding distribution of rarer breeding species in Wales, including kite, hen harrier, peregrine, chough, little tern, gossander and dotterel. Includes "Personally I would feel happier if the system did not show precisely the number of 10 km. squares with [kite] breeding records, mainly because this betrays the preponderance of Cardiganshire records compared with Carmarthenshire ones ... and is therefore against our agreed policy of keeping quiet about the strength of the Cardiganshire population" (letter from Peter Davis to Col Salmon, Feb. 1970) (see also B 4).

File contains material related to a project called "Ebsen on the Thames" including introduction, draft and screen treatment and a paper marked "Possible geographical groupings (with three - North Wales - Cornwall - Devon and Thames Valley developed slightly)".

The file comprises a copy of Lord MacDonald's entry in Burke's Peerage, dated 1988.

Original file of letters, 1947-1960, notes, newspaper cuttings etc. relating to Burmese affairs, particularly the conferral of the Agga Maha Thray Sithu, the highest Burmese order, on Lord Mountbatten, Lord Ogmore and Sir Hubert Rance, 1956, and the writing of Lord Ogmore's and others' recollections of the last days of British rule in Burma, 1969-1970. Also includes copies of the report of the Frontier Area Committee of Enquiry, 1947 (2 copies), and the treaty between the government of the UK and the provisional government of Burma, 1947.

Typescript of a speech, possibly given by Lord MacDonald on Burns night, 1949 noting the connections between Newfoundland and Scotland.

Welsh kite, peregrine, raven, buzzard and merlin records extracted from the diaries of C. H. Wells, a suspected egg-collector, 1910-1911 and 1925-1955, made available by courtesy of Eric Bartlett, the Brecon bird recorder, 1979, with covering correspondence, 1978-1979.

Papers relating to the work of Y Cabinet Iaith (Language cabinet) in 1988 and 1989 including press releases, drafts of letters, lists of people attending meetings, details of a Welsh Language Bill proposed by Lord Gwilym Prys-Davies and Dafydd Wigley.

Carbon copies of D. R. Rees-Williams's memoranda, including matters relating to British Guiana, Burma, China, Croydon, Falkland Islands, the Gold Coast, Hong Kong, Malaya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Palestine, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanganyika and Uganda.

Clychau’r gog. Geiriau gan R. Williams-Parry. Eirlysiau. Geiriau gan Waldo Williams. Y Griafolen. Geiriau gan Alun Llewellyn Williams. Cylch o ganeuon i Soprano neu Denor gyda chyfeiliant piano.

File contains the minutes of the North Wales Women's Liberal Federation (1938-19441) along with the minutes of the Caernarvonshire (County) Women's Liberal Constituency Council (1938-1940) and various newspaper reports of meetings and local political stories. some minutes have been recorded in Welsh.

File contains a register of members and record of meetings of the Caernarvonshire (County) Women's Liberal Constituency Council and area meetings.

File contains a small amount of material related to the Caernarvonshire Liberal Association including agendas and letterheaded papers.

Record of meetings and register of members of the Caernarvonshire (County) Women's Liberal Association (1933-1937) along with report of various committees ad reports to the Association.

The file comprises election addresses, posters etc distributed by Phil Williams' campaign for Plaid Cymru in the 1968 Caerphilly by-election, along with copies of newspaper articles and the addresses of Fred Evans' (Labour) and Robert Williams (Conservative).