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The file contains four stray letters, 1918-1928. The correspondents include Major C. E. Breese (2), 1918-1919, and R. T. Jones, 1919.

Some of the correspondents congratulate David Davies upon the receipt of a peerage. Includes letters from Major Charles E. Breese, J. Davies Bryan, Clement Davies MP, Rev. Gwilym Davies, Henry Neville Gladstone, Hawarden Castle, F. E. Hamer (2 letters), J. Tywi Jones, Y Darian, Sir Thomas Artemus Jones, Principal J. F. Rees, Sir John Herbert Roberts, Lord Clwyd, and Wickham Steed. There is also a draft or a copy of a letter, 5 June 1932, from Lord Davies to Ramsay MacDonald, the Prime Minister, expressing gratitude for the receipt of the earldom.

Seventeen letters, 1912-14, from the architect Clough Williams-Ellis (1883-1978), mainly addressed to Charles Edward Breese (1867-1922), Porthmadog, secretary of the Ffestiniog Slate Quarry Owners Association, chiefly relating to the former's pamphlet, Roofs and their coverings. In praise of slates (London, [1913]), and his standard plans for cottages roofed with 'Portmadoc' slates from the Ffestiniog quarries; together with some sixty letters, 1913, to Charles Edward Breese, mostly from surveyors, architects, builders and local government officers in response to their receipt of copies of the pamphlet.