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Correspondence, 1959-61, including letters from: Lord Rea, Glyn Tegai Hughes, Moses Griffith, Jeremy Thorpe MP, Donald [Wade] MP, Jo Grimond MP, Patrick Lort-Phillips and G W Madoc Jones.

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.

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.

Correspondence and papers relating to the Investiture Committee, 1969, and to Lord Ogmore's unpublished memoir 'The Dedication of a Prince', 1973 [see NLW Facs 621].

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.

Original file of letters from David to his parents, including on headed notepaper from the Adelphi Hotel, London (Aug.), P & O. S. N. Co., S. S. (Sept.-Oct), and Runnymede Hotel, Penang (Oct.), and thereafter with the forwarding address c/o Messrs Adams & Allen, Beach Street, Penang S. S. [=Straits Settlements].

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.

'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'.

Original file of letters, mainly from David, c/o Messrs Adams & Allen, Beach Street, Penang S. S., to his parents.

Correspondence and papers, 1962-64, including letters from: Emlyn Hooson MP, Jo Grimond MP, Enid Lakeman (Electoral Reform Society), Frank [Lord] Byers, Lord Dilhorne, Basil Wigoder, Patrick Kemmis and Mark Bonham Carter.

Original file of letters, mainly from David, c/o Messrs Adams & Allen, Beach Street, Penang S. S., to his parents.

Original file of letters, mainly from David, c/o Messrs Adams & Allen, Beach Street, Penang S. S., to his parents.

Original file of letters from David, c/o Messrs Adams & Allen, Penang S. S., to his parents.

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 and telegrams of congratulations to Rees-Williams on his elevation to the peerage.