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Series comprises documents related to the suspension of Responsible Government in Newfoundland in 1934 and the arrangements for the government of the dominion including the appointment of a Governor and a Commission of Government along with the Royal Commission appointing Gordon MacDonald as Governor and Commander in Chief of the Island of Newfoudland and its dependencies and the Government House visitors book and cash book for the period that MacDonald was in Newfoundland.

The file comprises stray letters to D. Lloyd George, mostly of political interest. The file includes letters from Winston Churchill, undated, Lord Dawson of Penn, 1931, King George VI (telegram), 1945, General Douglas Haig, 1916, George Lambert, 1932, J. Ramsay MacDonald, 1932, Sir Herbert Samuel, 1932, D. A. Thomas, Viscount Rhondda, 1917, and Colonel T. F. Tweed, 1940. The letter from Lord Dawson of Penn advises Lloyd George in the wake of the political and constitutional crisis of August 1931.