- 85.
- Ffeil
- 1907, Jan. 15.
Sees no reason to change his mind over resignation, since his meeting with Lloyd George, the previous Friday.
Sees no reason to change his mind over resignation, since his meeting with Lloyd George, the previous Friday.
Has seen Lord Chancellor about Evans's proposed resignation: '...he is strongly of opinion you ought not to resign'. Wants Evans to see him. [Reverse of letter has drafts for letters nos. 95 and 97].
Evans to Lord Chancellor [Lord Loreburn],
Sends copies of letters about his proposed resignation from the Welsh Church Commission.
Has seen Lord Chancellor who convinced him to remain on the Welsh Church Commission. Evans need not attend regularly but feels that Welsh people would be disappointed with him if he did not. Evans would prefer to resign now. [Encloses poem by Ruskin].
Welsh Church Commission Encloses copies of letters to Sir Henry Jones. [see no. 103].
D Lloyd George to Sir Henry Jones[Copy],
Impressed by the work of the Welsh Church Commission. Convinced that 'fatal error on the part of our friends to do anything which would break up the Commission before it reports.'. [Enclosed in no. 102].
Evans to Herbert Gladstone, [Home Sec.] [Draft letter],
Wishes to resign from the Welsh Church Commission.
Has sent letter of resignation. Does not intend making this public knowledge until it has been accepted by the Home Secretary.
Election Pamphlet: The Case for Free Trade,
Notes for speech: 'On taxation of land',
Newspaper cutting from British Weekly,
'Our Parliamentary Silhouette. Mr. Samuel Evans' by P.M.G. Sees Evans as a 'man of much higher calibre' than other Welsh M.P.s. Bright future, but 'He must put aside self-seeking, and live for his party.'.
Bound copies of programmes for various Hymn singing Festivals in Neath,
Copy of an epitaph seen by Evans in a Wolverhampton Church,
Report: Arthur Lawrence [Cardiff] to R. P. Morgan [Copy],
Subject: Minerals under Glynrhigos and Tirlan [Dulais Valley].
Copy of speech to the Medico-Legal Society. Speech concerns medical jurisprudence,
Typewritten speech [see no. 177],
Draft speech-'Wales under the Tudors',