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Desk diary of Lord Ogmore, with entries most days.

Desk diary of Lord Ogmore, with entries most days.

Desk diary of Lord Ogmore, with entries most days April-Oct.

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.

Loose pages from 'The Welsh outlook', Dec. 1925-April 1927, and 'Y Llwyfan', April/May 1928 and Dec. 1928/Jan. 1929, containing articles by D. Rees Williams, comprising 'Ewenny Priory', Dec. 1925, 'Wales and the future', Feb. 1926, 'The chip cart', n.d., 'Electoral reform', April 1927, 'The law and the theatre - copyright', April/May 1928, and 'The law as it affects the theatre, no. 2, licensing', Dec. 1928/Jan. 1929. Also a typescript script for 'The week in Westminister' by Lord Ogmore, broadcast 30 March 1957.

Copy agreement (unsigned) for the sale by David Rees Williams of the goodwill of the practice of Messrs Edwards & Rees Williams of 11 Park Place, Cardiff, to Lean & Lean of 52 Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff, solicitors, 1939. Also deeds and documents relating to Lord Ogmore's purchase of a partnership in the solicitors Merriman, White & co., 1952, the dissolution of the partnership, 1956, and Lord Ogmore's annuity as retiring partner, 1959-1960.

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

Printed material, including David Rees-Williams's election leaflet, 1950; Ministry of Civil Aviation report of the investigation into the accident on 31 Oct. 1950 to B.E.A. Viking G-AHPN at London Airport, 1951; report on the fifth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, Sept.-Dec. 1950; Colonial Office report by the Federation of Malaya constitutional conference, Jan.-Feb. 1956; and a booklet entitled 'Biographies of delegates & officers attending the Seventh Parliamentary Conference, London, 1961' (55 pp.).

Scripts of four short plays: 'War Play' scenes 1-3, about an incompetent coast battery, [c.1940]; 'A mock field general court martial' by Major D. R. Williams, R.A., for the 211st Heavy (Mixed) A.A. Training Regiment R.A., Aug. 1942; 'A military court play' by D.R.W., to show the procedure and working of a summary military court in occupied enemy territory, May 1944; and a draft script of 'Rhodri', a television play by David Rees for the Christmas season, 1963.

Original file of letters and draft and copy replies, mainly 1961-1966, mainly relating to Malaysia, including with Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra, prime minister, but also relating to Gold Coast, Malta, Nigeria and Uganda.

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.

Agreement between Industrial Leasing & Finance Ltd and S. G. Warburg & Co. Ltd for the sale of £5,000 ordinary shares of £1 each, half of the share capital of Industrial Leasing & Finance (Scotland) Ltd, 1964; and a declaration of trust, being a gift by John Peter James Ellis JP, chairman of directors and majority shareholder of Industrial Leasing & Finance Ltd., a private limited company, of shares worth £50,000 on the convesion of the company into a public limited company, 1970.

Typescript of Lord Ogmore's 'Recollections of Burma (the independence of Burma) : recollections of events in 1946 and 1947 leading up to the independence of Burma'.

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.

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.

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'.

'Record of the David family and of the families with which it is intermarried' (typescript, 27 pp., signed David Rees Williams, Garth Celyn, Bridgend, 1930); a tracing of the arms of Richard David, bishop of St Davids, copied from the 16th cent. Cardiff Library Heraldic MS 34, n.d.; a heraldic achievement on tracing paper, the arms including three [boars' or dogs'?] heads on a bend, the crest includes a collared dove holding a twig, and the motto is 'Ffyddlon hyd angau' ('Faithful to death'), n.d.; and drawings of two achievements (named 'David' and 'David/Gamage') and two shields of arms on tracing paper, n.d. Also a letter from George Frederick Forsdike, lord mayor of Cardiff, to Miss Connie Wills on behalf of the Save the Children Fund, 1920; a prescription for Mrs J. Wills, 1926; correspondence relating to the title and motto of Baron Ogmore of Bridgend, including with the College of Arms, Bridgend UDC and Ogmore & Garw UDC, June-Sept. 1950; with Burke's Peerage, Jan. 1959; and with the College of Arms relating to registering his descendants with the college, Nov. 1972-March 1973. Also a typescript CV of Lord Ogmore, [c. Aug. 1951]. At the rear of the 'Record of the David family ...' is a copy of the Newcastle petition to Parliament (no. 14); several of the signatories have the first name or the family name/patronymic 'David'.

Appointment diary of Lord Ogmore, with daily entries, cancelled.

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.