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Frances Stevenson Family Papers
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Cartoon of Lloyd George,

Cartoon from Punch, 27 January 1926, entitled, 'The very early Cuckoo', linked to an address which Lloyd George had recently delivered to his constituents on the likely outcome of the next general election.

Beddgelert and Snowdon,

Postcard view of Beddgelert and Snowdon. Sent, 2 November 1942, from Frances Stevenson to her daughter Jennifer who was at the time a pupil at Headington School, Oxford.

'Beaverbrook file'

The file includes a total of 43 letters, 1933-1964, from Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, to Frances, mainly discussing the Lloyd George Papers which Frances sold to the Beaverbrook Foundation in 1949-1950, and to Beaverbrook's own researches on Lloyd George. There is also a group of letters, 1952-1955, from Frank Owen concerning the writing and publication of Tempestuous Journey: Lloyd George his Life and Times (London, 1954). Some of the letters relate to Frances's intention to write her autobiography and her use of the Lloyd George Papers during the 1950s, and her eventual publication of The Years that are Past in 1967. There are also 2 letters, 1961, 1970, from John Grigg, and a group of 29 letters, 1969-1970, from A. J. P. Taylor mainly relating to the publication of Frances's diaries.

Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron, 1879-1964

BBC broadcasts and interviews

The correspondence and papers relate to the broadcasts and interviews which Frances made for the BBC. They include the transcript of a film The Changing Years made in 1970. The file includes letters from Nan Davies, 1961, and David Parry-Jones, 1968.

Davies, Nan

Article by Dr Glyn Simon,

Press cutting, namely the 'Wales and the World' column from the Western Mail, 27 July 1971, entitled, 'His words filled my mouth', namely a critique of a lecture 'Being Welsh Today', by Dr Glyn Simon, the retiring Archbishop of Wales, and recently published in the Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. It refers to Dr Simon's attitude towards Lloyd George.

Article by A. J. Sylvester,

Letter, 12 March 1947, from Edith Evans, Colwyn Bay, to Countess Lloyd-George, decrying the recent article by A. J. Sylvester in the Sunday Dispatch. Assures her that no-one will take any notice of its contents. The writer's husband used to drive for the Lloyd Georges at Colwyn Bay and at Chatsworth. Is writing this letter unknown to her husband.

Albums,

Comprises 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.

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