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Most of the correspondence and papers relates to the General Strike and the subsequent long lock-out in the coal industry. They include several letters from David Davies to various recipients advocating the establishment of arbitration machinery to resolve the dispute and making suggestions for the conduct of the negotiations. There are also notes in the hand of David Davies relating to possible terms for the re-opening of the coal mines. The file also contains two stray letters, 1904-05, from Rees Jones of the Ocean Coal Company discussing developments in the coal trade.

Includes letters from T. Huws Davies and D. A. Thomas, Viscount Rhondda. Many of the letters from 1917 and 1918 discuss various aspects of the war effort. Some later letters refer to demobilisation and reconstruction, and there are a few references to the coal industry. There is also a group of letters, 1917-18, from George M. Ll. Davies to David Davies, together with a few letters from David Davies to George M. Ll. Davies. These letters discuss the war effort, George Davies's contributions to the Welsh Outlook, and conditions in prison. There are detailed comments on contemporary political life and world events.