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Correspondence, list of subscribers and financial papers, 1954-1955, relating to the fund set up in connection with the presentation by members of both houses of Parliament to Sir Winston Churchill on his eightieth birthday of a portrait of Churchill by Graham Sutherland. The papers were accumulated by Roderic Bowen as treasurer of the fund.

Bank statements, 1954-1955, in connection with the Churchill Presentation Fund; they show that a larger proportion of Labour Members of Parliament contributed towards the presentation than Conservatives and that their contributions were generally higher.

Includes letters from Walter Citrine (2 letters), together with copies of letters from Lord Davies to Citrine, and copies of two letters,12 and 19 November 1933, from Lord Davies to Winston Churchill.

Diary entries in the hand of Frances Stevenson for 23-27 May 1944 referring mainly to Lloyd George's rapidly declining health, his visit to the House of Commons to hear a speech by Winston Churchill.

Includes letters from Garbett Edwards (5 letters). Includes an important letter, May 1940, from Lord Davies to Winston Churchill and another significant letter, May 1940, from Lord Davies to Neville Chamberlain, both concerning the war effort. The file also includes a small number of enclosures associated with the letters.

Includes letters from Brendan Bracken (3 letters), Winston S. Churchill (circular letter), Garbett Edwards (10 letters), Lord Halifax and Lewis Silkin.

Includes letters to Lady Violet Bonham-Carter and letters to and from Winston Churchill.

Includes copies of the Annual Reports of the New Commonwealth Society and Institute, 1935-1936 and 1936-1937; the text of a petition, 20 January 1936, to the government concerning the dispute between Italy and Abyssinia; the text of Churchill's speech at the New Commonwealth Luncheon, the Dorchester Hotel, 25 November 1936; emergency resolutions passed at the annual conference of Young Liberals at York, 1936; a copy of Major C. R. Attlee, An International Police Force, published by the New Commonwealth; and various press cuttings.

The recipients of the letters include Clement Attlee, Lord Beaverbrook, Leonard F. Behrens, Ernest Bevin (8 letters), Brendan Bracken (5 letters), Winston Churchill, F. Seymour Cocks, Lord Colwyn (4 letters), Hugh Dalton, Walter Elliot, Dr T. I. Ellis, D. Owen Evans (2 letters), Major Gwilym Lloyd-George, Sir Edward Grigg, Lord Halifax (4 letters), Lord Hankey, General Sir Edmund Ironside (2 letters), Sir William Jenkins MP, Neath (3 letters), Sir Roger Keyes (3 letters), Kingsley Martin, Malcolm MacDonald (2 letters), Harold Macmillan (3 letters), Reginald McKenna (3 letters), Harold Nicolson (3 letters), Frank Owen, Lord Plymouth, Lord Samuel (2 letters), Geoffrey Shakespeare (2 letters), Sir Archibald Sinclair (4 letters), Lord Teviot, J. P. L. Thomas (3 letters), and Sir Robert Webber, the Western Mail. Also includes a copy of a letter from Malcolm MacDonald to Lord Davies and copies of other incoming letters.

Photograph of Lloyd George and Churchill in formal dress, c. 1940.

Papers, 1935-1945, of the Rev. B. George Rees, Curate of Llangynwyd, Maesteg (1936-38), and Laleston (1938-44), Rector of Llansannor (1944-48), and a WEA lecturer on literature at the Maesteg Unemployed Centre and elsewhere. The papers include letters, 1939-1940, from a number of authors and poets, responding to requests by Rees for their thoughts on lecture subjects such as 'Life and Literature'.
The respondents include W. H. Auden, [1939] (ff. 2-3), Winston Churchill, 17 January 1939 (f. 8), C. Day Lewis, [?1939]-1940 (ff. 10-12), Aldous Huxley, 27 March 1940 (f. 16), Glyn Jones, April 1939-February 1940 (ff. 19-27), Herbert E. Palmer, February-March 1940 (ff. 35-44), John Cowper Powys, February-March 1940 (ff. 45-47), J. B. Priestley, 10 January 1939 (f. 48), Dylan Thomas, September 1939-February 1940 (ff. 56-60), and Emlyn Williams, 8 February 1940 (f. 63); a few respondents, such as Glyn Jones (f. 25) and Dylan Thomas (ff. 59-60), supplied Rees with brief essays. Also included are notes, newspaper cuttings and other papers relating to Rees's lectures (ff. 66-91); and papers, 1935-1945, relating to his Church career, including letters and telegrams concerning his Institution at Llansannor, August-September 1944 (ff. 92-100), sermon notes (ff. 102-109), and parish magazines and pages from annual reports relating to Laleston, 1935-1944 (ff. 110-120).