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A typescript prologue, 1948, by Clough Williams-Ellis for an unamed book by F. R. Yorke, with annotated notes in the architect's hand.

Seventeen letters, 1912-14, from the architect Clough Williams-Ellis (1883-1978), mainly addressed to Charles Edward Breese (1867-1922), Porthmadog, secretary of the Ffestiniog Slate Quarry Owners Association, chiefly relating to the former's pamphlet, Roofs and their coverings. In praise of slates (London, [1913]), and his standard plans for cottages roofed with 'Portmadoc' slates from the Ffestiniog quarries; together with some sixty letters, 1913, to Charles Edward Breese, mostly from surveyors, architects, builders and local government officers in response to their receipt of copies of the pamphlet.

The file comprises letters, 1968-1998, from Clough Williams-Ellis (1), Paul Ferris (3), Constantine Fitzgibbon (1), Jeanne Robert Foster (2), Sir Angus Fraser (2), [Lady] Antonia [Fraser] (1), David Garnett (5), William Gaunt (2), Frances Lloyd-George (3), George F. Goodyear (1), Robert Graves (1) (to Philippa Pullar), Germaine Greer (1) and David Griffiths (2).

Twenty letters and cards, 1935-1960, from the architect Clough Williams-Ellis to the topographer Edmund Vale, Bethesda (ff. 1-16, 18-20, 23-27, 29-35), some discussing the proposed publication of the former's Britain and the Beast (London, 1937), to which Vale was a contributor (ff. 1-20 passim).
Also included are seven letters and cards (one incomplete), 1948-1959, from the architect's sister-in-law, Cecily Williams-Ellis, to Vale, mostly relating to the activities of the Caernarvonshire Branch of the Council for the Preservation of Rural Wales (ff. 36-39, 41-45); as well as three carbon copies of letters from Vale, 1937, 1949 (ff. 17, 21, 40). There are also references to the bombing school at Porth Neigwl (f. 14), film production in Wales (ff. 27-29), the landscape architect Dame Sylvia Crowe (ff. 33), and to Portmeirion (ff. 26, 31, 35).

Typescript specification of works, May 1936, by Clough Williams-Ellis, architect, for the construction of a new chapel and school room in Llanystumdwy, Caernarvonshire, drawn up for the Committee of Moriah Chapel, the Welsh Presbyterian Church in Llanystumdwy.
A full list of contents is on ff. 41-43.

The file includes correspondence and papers relating to various projects intended to commemorate Lloyd George's name in North Wales: the making of his grave into a national memorial, the erection of ornamental gates and the building of labourers' cottages at Tŷ Newydd; the building of a Lloyd George memorial library, museum or memorial college. There is a large number of letters from Clough Williams-Ellis to Frances.

Two letters from Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, Plas Brondanw, to the publishers David & Charles, 10 December 1975 (f. 62), and to their client, the author Alan Delgado, 21 December 1975 (f. 63), and carbon copies of Delgado's typescript replies, December 1975, February 1976 (ff. 64-65). The correspondence concerns Williams-Ellis's attempt to track down a record by Leslie Sarony, the sleeve of which was reproduced in Delgado's book Have You Forgotten Yet? (Newton Abbot, 1973), p. 86.

The papers of Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, comprising material relating to his architectural projects, including the village of Portmeirion and the Voelas, Bodnant and Brondanw estates, 1907-1978; papers, minutes and agendas, 1930-1977, of the Council for the Protection of Rural England, the Council for the Protection of Rural Wales and the Advisory Committee on the Landscape Treatment of Trunk Roads; speeches given by Clough Williams-Ellis at various meetings; articles and reviews published by him in newspapers, journals and magazines, and articles published by others on his works; correspondence concerning articles to the press, his publications, fixtures, invitations to various meetings and dinners, letters from architects, artists and other prominent figures; letters, cards and other papers relating to landmarks in his life, such as the conferring of a CBE and knighthood and the celebration of birthdays and his diamond wedding anniversary; and drafts of autobiographies and other writings, 1952-1978.

Specifications and bill of costs drawn up by Clough Williams-Ellis, architect, for the renovation of his brother's house, The Glen, Conwy, Caernarfonshire (ff. 1-12), with related correspondence, including two letters from Clough Williams-Ellis (ff. 19, 24), and bills from local contractors, 1914.