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File contains correspondence between the New Commonwealth Society and United Europe regarding use of space at Thorney House.

Papers relating to a New Commonwealth conference 'on the Technical Organisation of an International Police Force' held at Coulin, Ross-shire, 20-30 September 1937.

Correspondence and papers relating to the proposed re-purchase by members of the Davies family, the children of Lord and Lady Davies, of part of the Coulin Estate, Kinlochewe, Ross-shire.

New Articles of Association of C. S. C. Investment Trust Ltd., incorporated 1 August 1946.

Newspaper articles related to the political turmoil in Czechoslovakia in 1948.

Newspaper cuttings referring to Czechoslovakia.

Newspaper articles relating to relations between the Soviet Union and Western powers at the 1948 Danube conference.

A copy of Das Problem des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts: Eine Studie der internatiolen Beziehungen, by David Davies. Published by Verlag von Reimer Hobbing in Berlin, 1932.

Source materials relating to David Davies (1818-90), 'Top Sawyer', including extracts from newspapers; correspondence concerning the draft of a biography by W. Hughes Jones of Cricklewood, London; typescript notes on a letter book sent to the National Library of Wales in January 1935 and containing material covering the years1859-68; together with miscellaneous notes and transcripts from source materials.

The papers include a certified copy of the birth certificate of Edward Davies of Gwernevin, Llandinam, born June 1852; the grant of administration of the estate of Elizabeth Davies of Nyoddfach, Llandinam, granted September 1870; letters, 1879-82, from David Davies, relating to business and financial matters; and an account book of David Davies with the North and South Wales Bank, Newtown, bearing entries for the years 1877-91 and other financial accounts and notes through until 1925.

Correspondence and papers, 1875-76, mainly addressed to David Davies, concerning technical and scientific matters and patents. Many of the letters discuss technical matters on the railways, including the Cambrian Railways, and some to the Ocean Collieries.

Documents, 1859-1910, mainly relating to David Davies, Llandinam (1818-90), commonly known as 'Top Sawyer', and his son Edward Davies, Llandinam (1852-98).

Notebooks kept by David Davies while he was a history undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge between 1900 and 1903 and a copy of The Cambridge Review.

Comprises letters to David Davies, from 1932 the first Baron Davies of Llandinam, 1901-44, mainly on domestic political matters and international issues. Some of the early letters are from David Davies while he travelled extensively abroad, 1901-05. From 1932 onwards some concern the affairs and the running of the New Commonwealth Society set up by Davies himself in that year, mainly the proceedings of its British Section. Some letters also relate to Davies's researches and many publications in the form of monographs and journal articles. There are also references to the role and activities of the League of Nations Union and to the publication of the periodical the Welsh Outlook. There are also significant files of copies of letters sent out by Davies's various secretaries on a wide range of subjects. The group also comprises correspondence and papers, 1916-43, relating mainly to the Montgomeryshire County Liberal Association and political life within the county, including the circumstances leading to David Davies resolving to retire from parliament in 1926-1927. There are also some interesting memoranda, 1918-44, deriving from the Liberal Party nationally during a crucial period in its history. There is also correspondence and papers, 1945-50, concerning E. H. Garner-Evans MP.

There are copies of several letters and notes from David Davies amonst the correspondence. The correspondents include Lord Plymouth and Professor Harold Temperley.

Includes letters from Major Charles E. Breese, Portmadoc, Professor H. J. Fleure (2 letters), Professor Harold Temperley and J. H. Thomas MP.

Includes letters from F. P. Crozier (5 letters), (together with replies from David Davies), Rev. Gwilym Davies, Maud E. Gladstone, Hawarden, Sir Thomas Artemus Jones, and Professor Charles Webster, Aberystwyth. There are also several letters from David Davies to Monsieur Paul-Boncour, Chambre des Deputes, Paris.

General correspondence, 1901-29, to David Davies, together with copies of his replies in some cases. They cover a wide range of subjects and issues, mostly political. The important letters penned by prominent politicians and public figures have been noted at file level. Many of the letters from the period 1901-05 were written by David Davies to his relatives and associates while he travelled extensively abroad. Some of the letters from 1917-18 discuss demobilisation or reconstruction in the wake of the First World War.

Some of the letters relate to the purchase of an estate at Coulin in Scotland by David Davies. Includes letters from Rev. Gwilym Davies, Principal J. H. Davies, Cwrt Mawr, Mrs Annie J. Hughes-Griffiths, Colonel D. Watts Morgan MP, and Frances Stevenson (writing on behalf of D. Lloyd George).