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Manuscript notes for, and typescripts of, speeches delivered by Edmund-Davies, together with invitations to, and programmes of, events, with related correspondence, 1959-85:.

Manuscripts and off-prints of sermons, and speeches of a religious nature, together with notes and correspondence:.

Correspondence and papers concerning Edmund-Davies's career, including his appointment as Recorder of Merthyr Tydfil, 1942, Recorder of Swansea, 1944, Recorder of Cardiff, 1945, and Chairman of the Denbigh County Court of Quarter Sessions, 1953; also included are papers relating to his nomination as member of the Royal Commission on the Penal System, 1964, and Chairman of the Criminal Law Revision Committee, 1968; and to his appointment to conduct a Government review of the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1978, 1982.

School books, including notes on English History by Edmund-Davies; manuscript key to shorthand; Macmillan's Story Readers, Book 1, by Evelyn Sharpe (London, 1908); together with a manuscript book entitled 'Lives of Great Writers', compiled by Edmund-Davies and other pupils of Form vi, Mountain Ash County School, December 1908.

Papers of Lord Edmund-Davies of Holborn, London, reflecting his career as a barrister and High Court judge, including papers deriving from court cases in which he was involved, 1936-1983; papers relating to the Great Train Robbery, [1964]; papers relating to the Aberfan Disaster Tribunal, 1966-1967, 1974; general legal papers, 1972-1986, including papers relating to the Welsh Language Act 1967, the work of the Committee of Inquiry on the Police, and the work and procedure of the House of Lords; photocopies of miscellaneous legal papers, 1908-1979; printed copies of appeals from the Court of Appeal to the House of Lords, 1947-1954; Lord Edmund-Davies' judge's notebooks, [1976x1985]; papers, mainly opinions of counsel relating to cases concerning the National Coal Board, 1947-1956; petitions against the Cardiff Corporation relating to water supply, 1954-1955; and minutes of meetings, reports, memoranda, etc. deriving from the work of the Committee of Inquiry on the Police, which Lord Edmund-Davies chaired, 1977-1979; together with papers relating to specific subjects such as the affairs of the London Welsh Trust, British Universities and Lord Edmund-Davies' selection as an observer for the British Government at the trial at Cairo of two Britons accused of spying, 1957-1986; speeches, lecture notes, and articles including legal speeches, [c. 1920s-1986], and offprints and typescripts of lectures by others, 1921-1983; correspondence files, 1967-1987; literary works by Lord Edmund-Davies, 1917-1929; correspondence and papers relating to his various appointments, 1942-1982; press cuttings, [1926x1992]; and miscellaneous correspondence and papers, 1908-1990.

Additional papers of Lord Edmund-Davies, Aberpennar, barrister and high court judge, including letters, papers relating to a visit to Canada, 1966, press cuttings, addresses to universities and other learned societies, and a number of photographs of him. This group remains uncatalogued.

Typescript of Edmund Davies's address to the jury as counsel for the defence in the case Rex v Albert Nettleton at the county of Anglesey assizes at Beaumaris.

Manuscript notes prepared by Edmund Davies for his 'summing up on Ronald Arthur Biggs, together with a typescript of questions asked Biggs by Detective Chief Superintendent T. Butler at Aylesbury Police Station and replies given, 4 September 1963.

Correspondence, October 1966 - September 1967, concerning the appointment, conduct and publication of the report of the Tribunal established to inquire into the causes of the Aberfan disaster, of which Edmund Davies was chairman, including a letter from Rt Hon Cledwyn Hughes, MP, Secretary of State for Wales, to Edmund Davies, 26 October 1966, enclosing the Instrument of Appointment of the Tribunal (11/1-2). Many are letters of admiration on the publication of the report; the correspondents include Hilary A Marquand, 8 August 1967 (11/15) and Rt Hon Cledwyn Hughes, MP, 10 August 1967 (11/17).

Letter from J. H. Edwards, Merthyr Tydfil, to Edmund Davies, 1 November 1974, enclosing a letter (11/34a) from Gwilym Davies, Clerk to the Merthyr Tydfil Board of Health, to Edward Edwards, JP, 22 December 1893, discussing local government wards.

'Observations' of Edmund Davies on the structure of the legal profession, 1 December 1976, and a letter, 18 June 1979, from the Secretary to the Royal Commission on Legal Services, to Edmund Davies concerning the deposit of the 'observations' in University libraries.

Papers, April 1976 - March 1977, discussing the writing and publication of Fenton Bresler, Lord Goddard: a biography of Rayner Goddard, Lord Chief Justice of England (London, 1977).