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Original file of letters, telegrams and cards of congratulations on Lt-Col D. R. Rees-Williams's elevation to the peerage.

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

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 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.

Two volumes labelled 'Uganda Development Corporation Limited, P.030, Kilembe Mines Limited', no's 1 (1953) and 3 (1955) (no. 2 missing), containing documents relating to the Kilembe copper and cobalt mine in the Kasese District of Uganda.

Papers relating to the Commonwealth and various member countries and issues, including notes for Lord Ogmore's presentation 'The Commonwealth in international affairs' to the Oxford Courses, Sept. 1953, draft letter to Clement Atlee relating to Malta, c.Nov. 1954; Lord Ogmore's resignation from the UK branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, Dec. 1968; British Asians in East Africa, particularly Kenya, 1968-1970; the tenth anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa, 1970; and a copy of 'Rhodesia : proposals for a settlement', annex B, Nov. 1971. Also items relating to Biafra, Hong Kong and Uganda. Also letters from M. W. Kaisiepo, president-in-exile of West Papua/West New Guinea-Melanesia, 1970.

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.

Annual desk diaries (1940, 1947-1955 and 1975) kept by D. R. Rees-Williams, later Lord Ogmore, with intermittent diary entries.

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

Desk diary of Lord Ogmore, with entries most days.

Desk diary of Lord Ogmore, with entries most days.

The 1989 group (no's 1-13) comprises political papers of Lord Ogmore, 1957-1976, mainly relating to party organisation and policy formation, comprising correspondence and other papers concerning the Liberal Party and the Welsh Liberal Party, 1959-1974, Welsh affairs such as devolution, 1957-1976, the investiture of the Prince of Wales, 1969-1973, and various printed political pamphlets. The 2014 group (no's 14-66) comprises family and political papers, including letters to his parent from Penang, 1930-1934, Cabinet Office, Colonial Office and Commonwealth papers relating to various colonies, particularly Sarawak and Burma, 1947-1970, and the investiture of the prince of Wales, 1967-1973.