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Over two hundred letters, 1898-1915, and related papers, [c. 1904]-[c. 1919], of David Lloyd George, 1st earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor. The bulk of the correspondence is addressed to Lloyd George but there are also a few notes in Lloyd George's hand. Most of the letters relate to Welsh affairs, and in particular to the Disestablishment question and the contentious Welsh Church Commission, 1906-1907; other subjects include education, the investiture of the Prince of Wales, 1911, and the First World War. For the most part the correspondents are Welsh politicians and public figures; there are also letters from the 1st earl of Halifax (1) 1914, Randall Davidson, archbishop of Canterbury (1) 1906, and Herbert Gladstone (2) 1907-1910. The main correspondents are A.G. Edwards, bishop of St Asaph (5) 1906-1915, Sir Francis Edwards, MP (18) 1903-1915, Sir Samuel T. Evans, MP (6) 1907-1908, Sir Henry Jones (8) 1906-1907, Sir J. Herbert Lewis, MP (5) 1906-1907, Sir J. Herbert Roberts, MP (9) 1906-1907, and W. Llewelyn Williams, MP (21) 1906-1915.

The recipients of the letters include Clement Attlee, Lord Beaverbrook, Leonard F. Behrens, Ernest Bevin (8 letters), Brendan Bracken (5 letters), Winston Churchill, F. Seymour Cocks, Lord Colwyn (4 letters), Hugh Dalton, Walter Elliot, Dr T. I. Ellis, D. Owen Evans (2 letters), Major Gwilym Lloyd-George, Sir Edward Grigg, Lord Halifax (4 letters), Lord Hankey, General Sir Edmund Ironside (2 letters), Sir William Jenkins MP, Neath (3 letters), Sir Roger Keyes (3 letters), Kingsley Martin, Malcolm MacDonald (2 letters), Harold Macmillan (3 letters), Reginald McKenna (3 letters), Harold Nicolson (3 letters), Frank Owen, Lord Plymouth, Lord Samuel (2 letters), Geoffrey Shakespeare (2 letters), Sir Archibald Sinclair (4 letters), Lord Teviot, J. P. L. Thomas (3 letters), and Sir Robert Webber, the Western Mail. Also includes a copy of a letter from Malcolm MacDonald to Lord Davies and copies of other incoming letters.