Typescript draft, with manuscript emendations, of the opening chapters of an unpublished autobiography by Gwilym Lloyd-George, giving an account of his childhood and education, his parliamentary career during the 1930s, and concluding with a description of his visit, in the company of his father, to Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden in 1936. Also included are manuscript notes and a newspaper cutting relating to the work.
Diary of a visit to Germany starting on 1 October 1934 with the final dated entry on 15 October 1934. Discusses the political and economic system in Germany and notes meetings with Lady Rhondda on the train and Ernst Jackh where he discusses the Berlin section of the New Commonwealth.
A telegram from the P[ress] A[ssociation] to the Cambrian News, Aberystwyth, [ ] September [19]39, quoting unconfirmed Associated Press reports of fighting at Danzig and the bombing of Polish towns, a Reuter statement relating to a broadcast by Hitler and the proclamation by Danzig of itself as a part of Germany, and unconfirmed reports from Paris of the beginning of the German offensive.
Pocketbook containing notes from Trieste and observations on the situation in Italy and Germany. Gareth travelled to Trieste from Vienna in August 1934, covering the events following the assassination of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. It also includes notes from a Goering speech from August 1934, corresponding with an article published in the Western Mail.
Miscellaneous notes accumulated by Ruth Longford while researching and writing Frances, Countess Lloyd George: More than a Mistress (Leominster, 1996), including notes on source materials, typescript draft memoirs by Jennifer Longford, a typescript dissertation [? by Ruth Longford] on Lloyd George and Hitler, and miscellaneous stray sources which had come into her possession.
