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Appointment diary of Lord Ogmore, with daily entries, cancelled.

Typescript of Lord Ogmore's 'Recollections of Burma (the independence of Burma) : recollections of events in 1946 and 1947 leading up to the independence of Burma'.

Original file of correspondence relating to the Foundation (president, Lord Ogmore), 1972-1976, including relating to a reform of the kidney donor card system for cadaver kidneys. Also papers relating to an international symposium, 26-28 Sept. 1973, and the annual report of the KRUF Institute of Renal Disease, 1974-75.

Desk diary of Lt-Col D. R. Rees-Williams MP, with daily entries.

Desk diary of Lord Ogmore, with daily entries.

Petition (39 names) by the "cultivators of the soil and growers of wool" in the hundred of Newcastle, co. Glam., to the House of Commons, protesting against the importation of 26,799,367 bushels of foreign corn in 1818, duty free, and of 13 million pounds of foreign wool in three quarters of a year, at a duty of a halfpenny and a fraction per pound, when the petitioners are paying probably 30% taxes on everything they can grow. They pray for a committee of inquiry, and duties on the imports to bring their cost up to that of "the productions of the soil of the United Kingdom". Several of the signatories have the first name or the family name/patronymic 'David', Lord Ogmore's mother's maiden name.

Newspaper cuttings of articles by or relating to D. Rees Williams, mainly undated.

Original file of letters from David to his parents, including on headed notepaper from the Adelphi Hotel, London (Aug.), P & O. S. N. Co., S. S. (Sept.-Oct), and Runnymede Hotel, Penang (Oct.), and thereafter with the forwarding address c/o Messrs Adams & Allen, Beach Street, Penang S. S. [=Straits Settlements].

Original file of letters, mainly from David, c/o Messrs Adams & Allen, Beach Street, Penang S. S., to his parents.

Original file of letters and telegrams of congratulations to Rees-Williams on his elevation to the peerage.

Printed matter, including 'What is a christian?', a verbatim extract of a talk between Michael Ramsey, archbishop of Canterbury, and David Frost, [1960s?]; the Bill, as amended in committee, of the United Reform Church Act 1972; 'Prayers for the work of the YWCA', 1977; and the covenant and rules of Kensington Chapel, [n.d.].

Original file of letters of condolence to Connie, lady Ogmore, on the death of Lord Ogmore, including letters from several from various branches of the YWCA and from several members of staff of the Property Owners Building Society. Also includes a few get well cards, cards from bouquets, and readings and the address from the funeral service, 3 Sept. 1976.

Loose pages from 'The Welsh outlook', Dec. 1925-April 1927, and 'Y Llwyfan', April/May 1928 and Dec. 1928/Jan. 1929, containing articles by D. Rees Williams, comprising 'Ewenny Priory', Dec. 1925, 'Wales and the future', Feb. 1926, 'The chip cart', n.d., 'Electoral reform', April 1927, 'The law and the theatre - copyright', April/May 1928, and 'The law as it affects the theatre, no. 2, licensing', Dec. 1928/Jan. 1929. Also a typescript script for 'The week in Westminister' by Lord Ogmore, broadcast 30 March 1957.

Copy agreement (unsigned) for the sale by David Rees Williams of the goodwill of the practice of Messrs Edwards & Rees Williams of 11 Park Place, Cardiff, to Lean & Lean of 52 Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff, solicitors, 1939. Also deeds and documents relating to Lord Ogmore's purchase of a partnership in the solicitors Merriman, White & co., 1952, the dissolution of the partnership, 1956, and Lord Ogmore's annuity as retiring partner, 1959-1960.

Scripts of four short plays: 'War Play' scenes 1-3, about an incompetent coast battery, [c.1940]; 'A mock field general court martial' by Major D. R. Williams, R.A., for the 211st Heavy (Mixed) A.A. Training Regiment R.A., Aug. 1942; 'A military court play' by D.R.W., to show the procedure and working of a summary military court in occupied enemy territory, May 1944; and a draft script of 'Rhodri', a television play by David Rees for the Christmas season, 1963.

Original file comprising Colonial Office memoranda by D. R. Rees-Williams, under-secretary of state for the colonies, on his visits to East Africa [Uganda, Tanganyika, Kenya and Zanzibar], May 1948, and West Africa [Nigeria, Gold Coast and Sierra Leone], Sept. 1948; also an unattributed and undated plan for the control of the tsetse fly in East Africa.

Printed material, including David Rees-Williams's election leaflet, 1950; Ministry of Civil Aviation report of the investigation into the accident on 31 Oct. 1950 to B.E.A. Viking G-AHPN at London Airport, 1951; report on the fifth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, Sept.-Dec. 1950; Colonial Office report by the Federation of Malaya constitutional conference, Jan.-Feb. 1956; and a booklet entitled 'Biographies of delegates & officers attending the Seventh Parliamentary Conference, London, 1961' (55 pp.).

Original file of letters and draft and copy replies, mainly 1961-1966, mainly relating to Malaysia, including with Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra, prime minister, but also relating to Gold Coast, Malta, Nigeria and Uganda.

Papers relating to Malaya and Malaysia, including correspondence with Levane G. Abdoolcader relating to parole for her husband Siroj Abdoolcader, imprisoned in the UK for offences under the official secrets acts, 1972; Eusoffe Abdoolcader on his elevation to the High Court of Malaysia, 1974; and Lady Gammans, 1975, relating to Lt-Col Rees-Williams and Capt. David Gamman's 1946 mission to Sarawk.

Typescript autobiography entitled 'The flourishing vine : memoirs of Lord Ogmore'.