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Correspondence and papers relating to the Commission on the Constitution, 1969-74, including letters from: John Morris, Secretary of State for Wales, and Emlyn Thomas.

Miscellaneous papers, including letters of administration of Tabitha Hopkins of Shop Farm, St Brides Major, co. Glam., d. 28 April 1930, granted to David Rees Williams as attorney of Edward Hopkins, now in the state of Alberta, Canada, brother of the intestate, 1930; a memorandum entitled 'Road signs & markings', listing [gipsy?] signs including 'A kind lady lives here', 'Tell the sob stuff', 'Beware of the dog' and 'Churchy', written on a page of Naval Message paper (form S.1320c, rev. Oct. 1935); an autograph poem, 'An ode to Miss Cxxx Mxxxxx' about the working day of Volunteer Skinner, signed and dated by David Rees Williams, Sept. 1939; a letter (in French) from Paul [Denreulenacry?], Civil Affairs Belgium, 41 Eaton Square, London, to 'Mon Major & cher Professeur', [1940x1946?]; and a signed poem (in French) 'Au Colonel Williams et Madame, ode de la France', 1946.

Printed material, including The London Gazette, 1 Dec. 1944, containing (p. 5532) notice of the intention of Williams, his wife and children to assume the surname Rees-Williams in lieu of Williams; The London Gazette, 14 July 1950, containing (p. 3622) notice of Lt-Col David Rees William-Rees's barony as Baron Ogmore, of Bridgend in the co. Glam.

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

Original folder stamped 'Investiture Committee, Lord Ogmore', containing minutes of the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th (and final) meetings of the Investiture Committee, Oct. 1967-May 1969, a membership list of the committe, Oct. 1968, and papers IC(13), IC(67)1 and IC(67)2.

Printed material relating to the House of Lords, including standing orders, general information for peers, regulations for visitors, guides and histories of the library and record office, and guidance on personal security.

Typescript (top copy) of 'The dedication of a prince, by Lord Ogmore, being an account of the Investiture of H.R.H. Prince Charles, K.G. as Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester at Caernarvon Castle in 1969'.

Typescript (carbon copy) of 'The dedication of a prince, by Lord Ogmore, being an account of the Investiture of H.R.H. Prince Charles, K.G. as Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester at Caernarvon Castle in 1969'.

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.

Correspondence and papers, 1966-70, including letters from: Emlyn Hooson MP, Jeremy Thorpe MP, Jennie Gibbs, Michael Meadowcroft, Lord Byers, Mary Murphy, Jo Grimond MP, Lord Rea, Rhys Gerran Lloyd, Edward Davies, Martin Thomas, Pratap Chitnis and Elfyn Lloyd Morris.

Correspondence and papers relating to Welsh Affairs, 1970-76, including letters from: Peter Thomas, Secretary of State for Wales, Clifford [Jones, Welsh Rugby Union], Lord Henley, Lord Esher, Sir Goronwy Daniel and George Thomas [aft. Viscount Tonypandy].

Correspondence and papers relating to Wales and the European Economic Community (including the Common Market Safeguards Campaign), 1970-72. Included are letters from: Rhys Gerran Lloyd, Douglas Jay, Jeremy Thorpe MP and Peter Bessell MP.

Petition (39 names) by the "cultivators of the soil and growers of wool" in the hundred of Newcastle, co. Glam., to the House of Commons, protesting against the importation of 26,799,367 bushels of foreign corn in 1818, duty free, and of 13 million pounds of foreign wool in three quarters of a year, at a duty of a halfpenny and a fraction per pound, when the petitioners are paying probably 30% taxes on everything they can grow. They pray for a committee of inquiry, and duties on the imports to bring their cost up to that of "the productions of the soil of the United Kingdom". Several of the signatories have the first name or the family name/patronymic 'David', Lord Ogmore's mother's maiden name.

Newspaper cuttings of articles by or relating to D. Rees Williams, mainly undated.