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Journal, February-March 1924, of Annie J. Hughes-Griffiths, recording her trip to America as part of the Welsh Women's Peace Memorial, including the outward and return voyages.
The journal contains references to Leila Mégane, including the part played by Hughes-Griffiths in Megane's wedding to T. Osborne Roberts on 21 March 1924.

Contains various ephemera including CND Cymru Briefing Papers No. 4 Britain's Nuclear Bomb, No. 7 Wales and Nuclear Power and no. 8 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

The first of three volumes containing some one hundred and eighty-eight letters, 1856-1888, addressed to Henry Richard and dealing particularly with politics, the peace movement, education and other affairs in Wales.
The correspondents include Sheldon Amos (Sydney, New South Wales), Henry Austin Bruce, first baron Aberdare, Elihu Burritt (New Britain, Conn.), Josephine E. Butler, Sydney Charles [Buxton], earl Buxton, Estlin Carpenter, Joseph Chamberlain, F. W. Chesson, J. J. Colman (Norwich), Leonard Courtney, John Stewart [Gathorne-Hardy], second earl of Cranbrook, Henry W. Crosskey, R. W. Dale, Edward Henry [Stanley], fifteenth earl of Derby, Charles W. Dilke, L. L. Dillwyn, George Dixon, Henry T. Edwards (dean of Bangor), Lewis Edwards (Bala) and Thomas Charles Edwards (Aberystwyth).

The second of three volumes containing some one hundred and eighty-eight letters, 1856-1888, addressed to Henry Richard and dealing particularly with politics, the peace movement, education and other affairs in Wales.
The correspondents include Henry Fawcett, (Mrs) M. G. Fawcett, Dudley Field, Hugh Fielden, Lord [Edmond] Fitzmaurice, W. E. Forster, W. H. Fremantle, Joseph F. B. Frith, Thomas Gee, H. M. Milner Gibson, J. H. Gladstone, W. E. Gladstone, Granville George [Leveson-Gower], second earl Granville, John Griffith (Y Gohebydd), Lord Richard Grosvenor, first baron Stalbridge, George Hadfield, John Hampden (Croydon), Sir William Harcourt, H. D. Harper (Jesus College, Oxford), Thomas Harris, Arthur Hobhouse, Alfred Illingworth, Basil M. Jones, J. Viriamu Jones and Michael D. Jones.

The third of three volumes containing some one hundred and eighty-eight letters, 1856-1888, addressed to Henry Richard and dealing particularly with politics, the peace movement, education and other affairs in Wales.
The correspondents include Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Leone Levi, W. F. Maitland, John Matthews (Aberystwyth), Edward Miall, Sir George Osborne Morgan, Samuel Morley, Sir Lewis Morris, William Morris (Kelmscott), A. J. Mundella, Thomas Nicholas, R. Barry O'Brien, Sir Hugh Owen, Frédéric Passy, Auguste Pierantoni, Lyon Playfair, Sir Henry Ponsonby, J. H. Puleston, Alexander Raleigh, Stuart (afterwards baron) Rendel, James H. Rigg, Sir Owen Roberts, Lady Frances Russell, G. W. E. Russell, Pietro Sparturo (Naples), John Poyntz [Spencer], fifth earl Spencer, Herbert Spencer, Edward Lyulph [Stanley], fourth baron Stanley of Alderley and fourth baron Sheffield, W. Co[w]per Temple, J[ohn] Thomas (editor of Y Tyst Cymreig), Jos[eph] Thompson, G. O. Trevelyan, Cypri[e]n Valton (Turin) and J. Carvel Williams.

The file consists of materials concerning peace groups and movements, 1981-1983, including the Greenham Common Women, the Women for Life on Earth group and the Cardiff to Brawdy peace march, 1982. There are also papers concerning the Royal Ordnance Factory, Llanishen, Cardiff.

Papers, 1994-1995, relating to the research and preparation of a substantial article by Sir Goronwy Daniel on 'UNESCO: the contribution of Sir Ben Bowen Thomas', published in W. R. Davies (ed.), The United Nations at Fifty: the Welsh Contribution (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1995), pp. 63-86. The file also includes information, 1966-1995, about Sir Ben assembled by Sir Goronwy Daniel. Among the correspondents is Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos, 1995.

The file comprises correspondence and papers relating to the visit of members of Urdd Gobaith Cymru to Brussels to share their annual peace and goodwill message with members of the European Parliament, arranged by Jill Evans, along with a photograph of the participants.