Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1879-2008. (Creation)
Level of description
Sub-fonds
Extent and medium
7 boxes and 5 albums.
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
All the material in this section was loaned by Mrs Ruth Nixon of Camberwell to the National Library of Wales to be digitised in March 2013 and subsequently returned to her a few months later.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Stray letters, messages, cards and postcards, 1916-91, all connected with the Lloyd George family in some way; stray memorabilia, 1900-2008, many deriving from Lloyd George or Frances Stevenson, and including legal documents, reminiscences and memoirs, autograph books, cartoons, printed items and press cuttings of especial interest; photographs, many of them snapshots, of David Lloyd George, Frances Stevenson, later the Dowager Countess Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, and of her daughter Jennifer Stevenson, later Jennifer Longford, and including small groups of photographs of Llanystumdwy, properties at Churt, namely Bron-y-de, Avalon and Farm Cottage, and a small group of photographs of other prominent individuals; albums containing small photographs taken during Lloyd George's visit to Germany in September 1936; photographs of, and press cuttings relating to Colonel Thomas F. Tweed, including several press obituaries of him, press cuttings concerning the marriage of David Lloyd George and Frances Stevenson at Guildford on 23 October 1943, and an album of photographs, mainly of David Lloyd George and of Bron-y-de, Churt, together with press cuttings, many of these of reviews of various books about Lloyd George; and the draft outline of a short story and notes for further stories by Frances Stevenson.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Material within series GP and files G1, G2 and G4 arranged chronologically within files at NLW; the contents of the albums within series GA have been retained in their original order while cataloguing.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Some of the items in this sub-fonds were purchased by the National Library of Wales in 2017. Records for the originals can be found in sub-fonds H, and are individually cross referenced from the file level records.
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Preferred citation: G.