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Letters, 1855-1904, of miscellaneous provenance, including letters, 1871-1894, to and from Welsh emigrants to Australia and the United States of America (ff. 11-24, 49-50, 69-70, 108-123); a letter, 1855, from the artist Penry Williams relating to a proposed visit by Lady Charlotte Guest to the Vatican; and a letter, 1857, from the Rev. Calvert Richard Jones, photographic pioneer, to his friend Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot of Margam, written from Nice. Other correspondents include Owen M. Edwards (1) 1891, Thomas E. Ellis (1) 1892, David Lloyd George (5) 1879-1892, William E. Gladstone (3) 1857-1875, Sir Lewis Morris (2) 1890-1895, Daniel Owen (1) 1885 and John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia) (4) 1891-1904.

Papers, 1886-1968, of the Lloyd George family. The collection is comprised mainly of correspondence, the bulk of which is addressed to David Lloyd George, mostly from contemporary political figures and from members of his family. The political correspondence relates largely to Welsh affairs, including Disestablishment, the Welsh Church Commission, education and the investiture of the Prince of Wales in 1911, as well as to the Irish Question and the First World War. David Lloyd George's family correspondence includes letters, [c. 1886]-1941, between David Lloyd George and his wife Margaret, from David Lloyd George to his uncle Richard Lloyd, 1890-1916, and to David Lloyd George from his brother William George, 1891-1915; other family correspondence includes letters to Margaret Lloyd George, 1893-1939, from various correspondents, and from Margaret Lloyd George mainly to her daughter Olwen Carey-Evans, 1917-1939; correspondence and papers of Megan Lloyd George, daughter of David and Margaret Lloyd George, including letters, 1939-1957, to and from Labour politician Philip Noel-Baker and from other correspondents, 1910-1966, including her parents, together with a tour journal, 1923-1924, and diary, 1947, and correspondence and papers, 1914-[c. 1963], of Gwilym Lloyd George, son of David and Margaret Lloyd George, including a typescript draft, [c. 1960]-1962, of his (unpublished) autobiography; together with speech notes, notebooks and miscellaneous papers, [c. 1904]-1939, of David Lloyd George, and correspondence and papers, 1898-1909, relating to Mair Eluned Lloyd George, daughter of David and Margaret Lloyd George.

The file includes correspondence with David Lloyd George (2 letters); R. E. Griffith (1 letter); W. J. Gruffydd (1 letter) and Sir Ellis Jones Ellis-Griffith (1 letter).

Some ninety-eight letters, postcards and telegrams, 1898-1940, addressed to Annie J. Davies (later Ellis, later Hughes-Griffiths). The correspondents include [E.] Vincent Evans, T. Gwynn Jones (3), J. Herbert Lewis (3), David Lloyd George, Margaret Lloyd George, Lord Rendel (6), C. A. F. Rhys Davids (2), W. Llewelyn Williams and [Sir] John Williams (2).
Also included are some six miscellaneous family letters; together with a letter, 25 February 1911, from J. Lloyd Williams to Mrs Mary Davies (Mair Mynorydd) concerning the work of the Welsh Folksong Society (presumably passed on by Mary Davies to her friend Annie Ellis).

An autograph letter, 14 June 1898, from D[avid] Lloyd George, House of Commons, to Sidney Robinson, declining an invitation to a meeting the following Friday [17 June] on account of a debate on education funding in Parliament that day.
Robinson was later MP for Breconshire (1906-1918) and Brecon and Radnor (1918-1922).

A typescript letter, 25 October 1911, from David Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to Sir Edward Brabrook, replying to Brabrook's letter, dated 19 October, concerning the National Insurance Bill. The Chancellor seeks to address Brabrook's concerns about the implications of the Bill for friendly societies, Brabrook being a former Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies. The National Insurance Act would receive royal assent on 16 December 1911.

A letter, 24 October 1913, from David Lloyd George to J[ohn] W[illiam] Gulland, Liberal MP for Dumfries Burghs, discussing arrangements to visit Glasgow to speak on land reform; the visit, suggested here for 1 December 1913, eventually took place on 4 February 1914. He also touches on the effects of the Dublin Lockout.
The letter is dictated but has Lloyd George's signature and a postscript in his hand.

A contemporary, [?1917], manuscript translation into English of a circular letter, in Welsh, dated 5 March 1917, from David Lloyd George, 10 Downing Street, urging Welsh farmers to do all in their power to aid the war effort.
The letter was circulated (and published) in both English and Welsh versions (see NLW ex 1824 and NLW MS 9982E, f. 124, respectively). The present manuscript appears to be an entirely independent translation of the Welsh version as shown by the use of 'Welsh Farmers' in the final paragraph, translating the Welsh 'Amaethwyr Cymru', where the original English version reads 'The farmers of this country'.

A scrap-album compiled, 1919-1929, by Leila Mégane, containing correspondence, press cuttings and other papers, 1917-1929, relating to her career, including letters and telegrams from Walter Johnstone-Douglas (1), 1919, David Lloyd George (1), 1919, Adelina Patti (1), 1919, and Jean de Reszke (8), 1919, with notes by Leila Mégane.

Printed copies of speeches delivered by David Lloyd George entitled The Peril to World Peace to the Free Church ministers and laymen on 28 July 1922; The Prime Minister on the Peace Treaty dated 3 July 1919 and a pamphlet by John Maynard Keynes entitled Mr Lloyd George's General Election dated 1920.

Photocopies of correspondence between McCurdy (Chief Whip), Lloyd George and Scovell from the Parliamentary Archives.

A copy of Coal and Power: The report of an enquiry presided over by the Right Hon. D. Lloyd George O.M., M. P.

A signed typescript letter, 24 November 1939, from David Lloyd George, Bron-y-de, Churt, to Cecil Harmsworth, [Lord Harmsworth of Egham in the County of Surrey], thanking him for his letter in support of Lloyd George's recent speeches and articles advocating a negotiated peace with Germany following the outbreak of the Second World War.

Llythyr, 23 Rhagfyr 1941, oddi wrth David Lloyd George, ar bapur ysgrifennu'r Weinyddiaeth Fwyd, at Richard Morris, yn diolch iddo am ei lythyr ac yn dymuno iddo wellhad i'w iechyd. = A letter, 23 December 1941, from David Lloyd George, on Ministry of Food headed notepaper, to Richard Morris, thanking him for his letter and wishing him improved health.

The papers include a memorandum on the substitution of mechanical transport in place of horse transport in divisional ammunition columns; statistics on German mobilized strength, 1916; and a stencilled copy of a letter, 11 December 1916, from Lloyd George to Liberal MPs shortly after assuming the premiership.

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.

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.

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.