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Correspondence and papers, 1955-1970, relating to various proposals for statues and memorial tablets to commemorate David Lloyd George: a statue of Lloyd George in the members' lobby of the House of Commons unveiled in December 1963, and a memorial tablet in Westminster Abbey unveiled in July 1970. The file includes letters from Nigel Birch, 1955, Clough Williams-Ellis, 1970, Dingle Foot (4), 1969-1970, Owen, third earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (4), 1969-1970, Geoffrey Rippon (2), 1963, William Lloyd-George, 2nd viscount Tenby, 1970, Jeremy Thorpe, 1970, and Harold Wilson (3), 1969.

Most of the early letters (pre-1945) are addressed to Frances as private secretary to Lloyd George, some referring to political and national events; many of those after 1945 also refer to Lloyd George and to contemporary political life. -- The file includes letters from Dr Christopher Addison, 1915, the 4th Marquess Cholmondeloy, 1923, Sir Joseph Davies, [1919], Sir Dingle Foot, 1970, Michael Foot, [?1967], King George VI, 1948, Martin Gilbert, 1964, John Grigg, 1972, P. J. Grigg, 1949, Laura Grimond, 1969, Maurice Hankey, [1960s], Lord Inchape, 1922, Lord Lothian, 1939, James Morris [Jan Morris], 1967, B. S. Rowntree (2), 1915-1916, Captain Stephen Roskill, 1970, Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare, 1949, Mary Soames, 1966, A. J. Sylvester, 1923, Jeremy Thorpe, 1969, and Harold Wilson, 1966.

The file consists of letters and papers, 1957-1971, relating mainly to the care of Lloyd George's grave at Llanystumdwy on the banks of the river Dwyfor, but some concern local celebrations of the centenary of Lloyd George's birth in January 1963, a visit to the grave by the Queen and Prince Philip in the following August, and the protest made by the Council for the Preservation of Rural Wales in 1969 against the proposed 'desecration' of the River Dwyfor, a protest with which Frances associated herself. The file includes letters from James Morris (Jan Morris), 1968, and Harold Wilson, 1968.