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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, 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.

Correspondence, 1962-66, including letters from: Jo Grimond MP, Michael Meadowcroft, Jennie Gibbs, Lord Rea, Jeremy Thorpe MP, Mary Murphy, Lord Byers, Rhys Gerran Lloyd [aft. Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran], Emlyn Hooson MP, Martin Thomas, Edward Davies, David Parry-Jones, Elfyn Lloyd-Morris, Pratap Chitnis and Emlyn Thomas (General Secretary of the Welsh Liberal Party).

Correspondence and papers, 1970-4, including letters from Jeremy Thorpe MP, Rhys Gerran Lloyd, Emlyn Hooson MP and Geraint Howells.

Correspondence and papers relating to Welsh Affairs, 1957-70, including letters from: Lord Howick of Glendale, Brian Curvis, Henry Brooke, Sir Cennydd Traherne, Sir Godfrey Llewellyn, William Crawshay, J Idwal Jones MP, Lord Aberdare, Aneirin Talfan Davies, David Prosser and Jac L Williams.

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

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

Certificates etc. of David Rees Williams, comprising Law Society final examination certificate, 1929; admission as a solicitor of the Supreme Court, 1929; writ of summons to Parliament as Lord Ogmore, 1950; notification of having been sworn Minister of Civil Aviation, 1951; notification of having been sworn a privy counsellor, 1951; letter from Maung Kyin of the Burmese Embassy of the conferment of the title of Agga Maha Thray Sithu on Lord Ogmore, 1956; and an appreciation from the organising committee of the VI British Empire & Commonwealth Games in Wales, 1958.

Papers relating to D. R. Rees-Williams's military career (Captain; Major from 1 Nov. 1938; Lt-Col by Aug. 1945), including a report relating to the stationing of 452 Co., 6th (Glamorgan) Bn, The Welch Regiment (67th Searchlight Reg.) (TA) at Weymouth, Dec. 1938; a report on the training of 178 H.A.A. Battery, 63rd H.A.A. Reg., at Burrow Head Camp, March 1941; indentity cards, March 1943 and April 1943; and a report of Lt-Col Rees-Williams presiding over the first British general court in Berlin, Aug. 1945. Also letters relating to the Royal Regiment of Wales and the Welch Regiment Museum at Cardiff Castle, 1973-1976.

Carbon copies of D. R. Rees-Williams's memoranda, including matters relating to British Guiana, Burma, China, Croydon, Falkland Islands, the Gold Coast, Hong Kong, Malaya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Palestine, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanganyika and Uganda.

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.

Original file of papers of the committee, Lord Ogmore being one of the three members.

Original file of papers relating to the Privy Counsellor's dinner to the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, 21 Nov. 1972, contained in the original folder.

Desk diary of Lord Ogmore, with entries most days.

Included are press statements, speech notes, opinion poll results, press cuttings, etc.

Correspondence and papers relating to Devolution in Wales, 1967-75, including papers concerning the Liberal Party's Government of Wales Bill, 1967. Included are letters from: Emlyn Hooson, Lord Longford, Lord Merthyr, Cledwyn Hughes, Enid Lakeman, Jeremy Thorpe, Mary Murphy, David Parry-Jones, Rhys Gerran Lloyd and Colonel Lionel V Evans.

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.