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File comprises a copy of the 20th April 1940 edition of 'Picture Post' which includes 2 items (pages 19-25 and 55-57) entitles 'At home with Lloyd George'.

File contains various pieces of ephemera, including; a business card for Miss Annnie Rees, Soprano, blank cheques, newspaper cuttings, notes, pages from a calendar; a gardening notebook; a fragment from Hansard dated 10th April 1930 with a handwritten note 'My old companions fare you well, I will not go with you to hell'; an invitation to Frances and Jennifer Stevenson to a Buckingham Palace garden party, and papers related to the David Lloyd George Statue Appeal Trust.

File comprises a typed essay by John Grigg entitled 'Lloyd George and an American donation: new light on the financial ethics of a great man.

Press cutting from the South Wales Echo, 12 October 1971, noting the estate of Edna Gwenfron Lloyd-George, Viscountess Tenby.

Press cutting from the South Wales Evening Post, 12 October 1971, noting the estate of the late Edna Gwenfron Lloyd-George, Lady Tenby.

Formal photograph of David Lloyd George as Prime Minister by Ernest Mills, namely a reproduction from Herbert du Parcq's Life of David Lloyd George, Vol. I (1912). The document is a souvenir of The Welsh Booth, British Section, National Allied Exhibition, Baltimore, 10-17 March 1917, and it also bears 'David Lloyd George, The Responsible Radical: an Appreciation', by Hon, David John Lewis.

Framed photograph of Frances Lloyd George in formal address, c. 1945.

Framed photograph of Frances Lloyd George in her study, c. 1945.

A journal article, c. 1940, by Frances Stevenson entitled, 'I Build a Cottage', namely Avalon, Churt, containing numerous photographs of the interior and the outside of the property.

The sections comprise general correspondence, 1915-1972, and family correspondence, 1916-1970, to and from Frances Stevenson.

This section comprises letters, 1917-1970, from Frances to members of her family, and letters, 1916-1970, from members of the Lloyd George family to Frances.

The fonds comprises a substantial group of letters and papers, 1911-1972, acquired by Frances as private secretary to Lloyd George, including some business papers, notebooks of reminiscences and printed items. There are letters from a number of prominent politicians and public figures. There is also a small group of letters and papers, 1912-1965, concerning Lloyd George himself, papers, 1933-1946, relating to Jennifer Longford's schooldays, and a few papers relating to other members of the Stevenson family, notably Frances's sister Muriel and brother Paul. The material in sub-fonds G was loaned by Mrs Ruth Nixon of Camberwell to the National Library of Wales to be digitised in March 2013 and subsequently returned to her a few months later. Some of this material was subsequently purchased by NLW in 2017 and catalogued as sub-fonds H. The 2017 purchase includes various articles about Lloyd George, a draft memorandum partly in the hand of Lloyd George and partly in the hand of Frances Stevenson regarding the early part of the First World War, letters from Frances Stevenson to her family, including some from the Versailles Peace Conference, notes following Lloyd George's speeches and papers relating to Jennifer Longford including letters between her and Lloyd George.

This section comprises files of letters to Frances, 1915-1972, from various individuals, many of them prominent politicians and public figures, together with a few letters, 1915-1972, from Frances.

Published text of lecture The Private Secretary by Frances Stevenson, published by the Association of Women Clerks and Secretaries.

The group consists of papers acquired and preserved mainly by Frances, comprising correspondence, 1915-1972, subject files, 1933-1975, business papers, 1940-1972, notebooks of reminiscences, [1920s-1960s], and miscellaneous printed items.

Photocopy of a Trust Instrument, 3 March 1931, from Frances Stevenson to her sister Muriel Stevenson and to John Ernest Morris, solicitor, relating to property known as Ingleton, Sandy Lane, Cobham, with provision for an income from the trust fund to Jennifer Stevenson.

An autograph book endorsed, 'Frances L. Stevenson, September 1904', and bearing entries for the years 1906 and 1907.

Letters from Frances Stevenson to her parents from Paris with accounts of the 1919 Peace Conference between 16th April and 17th June 1919, giving an insight into how both she and Lloyd George viewed the treaty terms. Frances notes that she believed the terms will lead to 'a good peace, not one that will cause another war in 10 or 20 years time' while 'The PM says it is a terrible document' and that 'there has been no such treaty presented to any nation since Carthage'. Frances also notes concerns over the length of time that the talks were taking noting 'that unless you get the treaty signed now, there will be Bolshevism everywhere'.

Letters, mainly from Frances Stevenson to her parents discussing family and political issues, including mentions of speeches, meetings and suffragettes. Several of the later letters discuss Lloyd George's illness. Include several fragments. File also includes a postcard from Frances to Jennifer and a page of diary entries in the hand of Frances Stevenson for 23-27 May 1944 referring mainly to Lloyd George's rapidly declining health, his visit to the House of Commons to hear a speech by Winston Churchill (f. 28).

School report for Frances Stevenson, summer term 1907, issued by the Clapham High School for Girls.