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Original file of letters, statements and notes, mainly relating to the purchase of 12 Merton Avenue, Chiswick, by Gwilym R. Rees-Williams (Oct. 1967), and the mortgage with the Property Owners Building Society.

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.

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

Original file of letters, 1947-1960, notes, newspaper cuttings etc. relating to Burmese affairs, particularly the conferral of the Agga Maha Thray Sithu, the highest Burmese order, on Lord Mountbatten, Lord Ogmore and Sir Hubert Rance, 1956, and the writing of Lord Ogmore's and others' recollections of the last days of British rule in Burma, 1969-1970. Also includes copies of the report of the Frontier Area Committee of Enquiry, 1947 (2 copies), and the treaty between the government of the UK and the provisional government of Burma, 1947.

Carbon copies of D. R. Rees-Williams's memoranda, including matters relating to British Guiana, Burma, China, Croydon, Falkland Islands, the Gold Coast, Hong Kong, Malaya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Palestine, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanganyika and Uganda.

Certificates etc. of David Rees Williams, comprising Law Society final examination certificate, 1929; admission as a solicitor of the Supreme Court, 1929; writ of summons to Parliament as Lord Ogmore, 1950; notification of having been sworn Minister of Civil Aviation, 1951; notification of having been sworn a privy counsellor, 1951; letter from Maung Kyin of the Burmese Embassy of the conferment of the title of Agga Maha Thray Sithu on Lord Ogmore, 1956; and an appreciation from the organising committee of the VI British Empire & Commonwealth Games in Wales, 1958.

Original file of papers of the committee, Lord Ogmore being one of the three members.

Original file of letters received and copy letters sent, mainly 1965-1976, mainly relating to House of Lords business.

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.

Original file of miscellaneous correspendence and papers, mainly relating to the Common Market Campaign preparatory committee, 1961; the Declaration of Atlantic Unity statement of interdependence, 1966-1969; and from Markus Wonggor Kaisiepo relating to Indonesia's takeover of West Irian, 1967-1968. Also papers of the third annual conference of the NATO Parliamentarians' conference, 11-16 Nov. 1957, comprising Lord Ogmore's chairman's address to the Political Committee meeting, 11 May, and a verbatim account of the first session, 12 May (am); a typescript draft of 'Economic aids to progress' by Lord Ogmore, c.Sept. 1961; an unattributed 'Memorandum on the Arab refugees' from an Israeli point of view, c.1967; and Jeremy Thorpe MP's address to the Anglo-Israel Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 1975.

Original file of personal and political letters, mainly 1971-1976, including from academics and students researching pre- and post-war Malaya. Also includes letters relating to Nigeria and Biafra, 1967-1968, the future custody of Ogmore's papers, 1972-1975, and a Christmas card list, 1973.

Desk diary of Lord Ogmore, with entries most days.

Desk diary of Major David Rees Williams, R.A., with administrative entries from 3 April, and narrative entries from 25 May, including "I am now to confine myself to [this?] Scarborough Battery as B.C." [=Battery Commander] (28 May). Enclosed is a telegram (2 pp.) requesting him to act as defending officer of a court martial of three men of 340 Coast Battery, R.A., Hythe, Kent, Dec. 1940.

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

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

Desk diary of Lord Ogmore, with entries most days April-Oct.

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

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

Desk diary of Lord Ogmore, with daily entries.

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