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Papers of D. Caradog Jones, [c.1940]-1978, comprising records relating to the Labour Party and Welsh rural areas, 1951-1959; general correspondence, 1951-1978; and papers and press cuttings, [1940x1959], concerning D. Caradog Jones and Montgomeryshire politics, 1940s-1950s.

General correspondence and papers, including letters from Arthur Moyle MP, Desmond [?Donnelly] MP, James Griffiths MP, Elwyn Roberts, secretary of the Parliament for Wales Campaign and the editor of the Montgomeryshire Express and Radnor Times; a pamphlet published by the Montgomery County Association of the National Union of Teachers during the 1951 general election; the Parliamentary voting record of Clement Davies MP in the 1950-1 Parliament; papers concerning Montgomery County Constituency Labour Party; photocopies of correspondence between James Griffiths and Elwyn Roberts concerning the Parliament for Wales Campaign, 1954; papers relating to the Welsh Regional Council of Labour annual conference at Porthcawl, 1954; annual report of the Welsh Parliamentary Labour Party, 1953-4; miscellaneous papers concerning the Montgomery County constituency and local and general election pamphlets, 1950s.

Miscellaneous letters to DCJ and carbon copies of letters from him. The correspondents include Tom Jones, Shotton, 1956-72, and Principal Glyn O. Phillips, Deeside, 1975. Also included is a sample of slate wool, a suggested alternative to asbestos, to which some of the correspondence refers.

Papers concerning the Labour Party and Welsh rural areas, containing correspondence; memoranda by DCJ and the Labour Party on rural development in Wales; papers from the Labour Party Tripartite Committee on Welsh Rural Affairs; correspondence between DCJ and Cliff Prothero, secretary of the Welsh Regional Council of Labour; papers of the Montgomery County Constituency Labour Party concerning agriculture; letters from James Griffiths MP, 1954-8; and publications relating to agriculture and the development of rural areas in Wales.