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Includes letters from Sir Robert Webber, the Western Mail, and Professor Sir Alfred Zimmern.

Includes letters to and from the Revd Gwilym Davies. The correspondents include E. R. Appleton, 1934, and William George, 1934 (2 letters).

Correspondence and papers relating mainly to the work of the Welsh Council of the League of Nations Union. There are a large number of letters between Lord Davies and the Revd Gwilym Davies. Other correspondents include Ifan ab Owen Edwards, 1934, William George, Criccieth, 1934, and Major Edgar Jones, Barry, 1935 (2 letters).

Some letters discuss the work of the Montgomeryshire Liberal Association. Includes a letter from Sir Ellis Jones Ellis-Griffith MP.

The recipients of the letters include Clement Attlee, Lord Beaverbrook, Leonard F. Behrens, Ernest Bevin (8 letters), Brendan Bracken (5 letters), Winston Churchill, F. Seymour Cocks, Lord Colwyn (4 letters), Hugh Dalton, Walter Elliot, Dr T. I. Ellis, D. Owen Evans (2 letters), Major Gwilym Lloyd-George, Sir Edward Grigg, Lord Halifax (4 letters), Lord Hankey, General Sir Edmund Ironside (2 letters), Sir William Jenkins MP, Neath (3 letters), Sir Roger Keyes (3 letters), Kingsley Martin, Malcolm MacDonald (2 letters), Harold Macmillan (3 letters), Reginald McKenna (3 letters), Harold Nicolson (3 letters), Frank Owen, Lord Plymouth, Lord Samuel (2 letters), Geoffrey Shakespeare (2 letters), Sir Archibald Sinclair (4 letters), Lord Teviot, J. P. L. Thomas (3 letters), and Sir Robert Webber, the Western Mail. Also includes a copy of a letter from Malcolm MacDonald to Lord Davies and copies of other incoming letters.

Includes material relating to the activities of a large number of bodies including the National Arbitration League, Europa Union, Union Europeenne des Federalistes, the World Movement for World Federal Government, tha Campaign for World Government, and the Liaison Committee for World Government.

Includes miscellaneous correspondence, 1917-18; notes on the national shipyards, 1918; a memorandum on the War Efficiency Group; David Davies, 'The Boom of Beaurocracy [sic] and the Powerlessness of Parliament', undated; a copy of the Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Tuberculosis, 1919; a file of papers on Aircraft Acceptance Park, 1917-18; a paper on Welsh agriculture; correspondence and papers, 1917, on the Royal Army Medical Corps; and a copy of Sir Henry Norman's report on disabled soldiers, 1916.

Many of the papers relate to the Powell's Row Improvement Scheme.

Includes a letter from Sir E. Vincent Evans.

Includes many letters and other papers relating to David Davies's decision to retire as the Liberal MP for Montgomeryshire. There are several letters from the officials of the Montgomeryshire Liberal Association. The correspondents include Charles Hobhouse, Professor T. A. Levi, Aberystwyth, Professor Gilbert Murray, and A. J. Sylvester (2 letters).

Correspondence, January-June 1917, on Russia. It includes two letters, 18 and 25 March 1917, from General F. C. Poole from Petrograd, describing the revolution; reports by C. Platonoff on the general situation in Russia; a memoranda, 1917, relating to British official activities in Archangel; a letter, 8 April 1917, from Ronald M. Burrows to Thomas Jones, suggesting that the Russians are likely to capitulate.

Includes a letter, December 1921, from David Davies to Thomas Jones following the formulation of the Anglo-Irish agreement and a reply from Jones to Davies.

A digital copy of a typescript in two volumes (files) of an unpublished biography of David Davies, first Baron Davies of Llandinam by Sir Charles Tennyson, The Middle House, Southwold, Suffolk, entitled “D. D.: The Life of David: First Lord Davies of Llandinam”. With some corrections and alterations in ink and pencil, and with some pages having being edited appears to have been retyped at a later date (with page numbers reflecting this). “Revised version” is written in pencil on both covers.

Papers of David Davies, the first Baron Davies of Llandinam (1880-1944), along with papers of other members of the family, David Davies (1818-1890), Edward Davies (1852–1898), Revd. Gwilym Davies (1879-1955), Gwendoline Elizabeth Davies (1882-1951) and Mary Sidney Davies (1884-1963). They reflect Lord Davies varied business and political interests and include the records of the New Commonwealth Society, papers related to the League of Nations Union Welsh National Council, the first and second world wars, the Temple of Peace, the King Edward VII Welsh National Memorial Institute, the National Library of Wales, the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show, University of Wales Aberystwyth, Davies’s coal and railway interests, international affairs, drafts and copies of Davies’s publications mainly on international relations, papers of the David Davies Memorial Institute and papers related to Gregynog Press.

Files of papers relating to David Davies, Baron Davies of Llandinam (1880-1944), and his immediate family. Some of these were collected together when the idea of preparing a biography of Lord Davies was in prospect.

Includes a letter from Sir Archibald Sinclair.

Includes copies of letters to the following recipients: Lord Addison (3 letters), Brendan Bracken, Lord Colwyn (2 letters), Rev. Gwilym Davies, Joseph E. Davies, Sir William Llewelyn Davies (3 letters), Garbett Edwards (numerous letters), Will John MP, Sir Thomas Artemus Jones (3 letters), George Lerry, Wrexham, Lord Lothian, Kingsley Martin, Lord Melchett, Herbert Morrison (3 letters), Malcolm MacDonald (2 letters), Lord Reith (2 letters), Sir Archibald Sinclair, Thomas Waterhouse (2 letters) and Sir Robert Webber, the Western Mail (2 letters).

Includes letters to and from Sir John Simon, a letter from Sir Archibald Sinclair and a letter to Viscount Snowden.

Includes letters from D. Brynmor Anthony, S. Morse Brown, Garbett Edwards, Annie J. Hughes-Griffiths and D. Lleufer Thomas.