Letters and press cuttings

Archive Unit
  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 210 NLW MS 14033E.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004600759
  • Dates of Creation
      [1901]-[1909]
  • Language of Material
      English  English.
  • Physical Description
      149 ff. including insertions (original pagination 1-100; many folios blank) ; 370 x 265 mm.
      Cloth over boards with double fillets; 'News Cuttings' (gold on front cover); 'J. & S.' (stamp inside back cover).
  • Location
      ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

A scrapbook, compiled [1901]-[1909], containing fifty-nine letters addressed to Osmond Williams, 1901-1903, and press cuttings mostly relating to him, 1901-1904, 1907, [1909].
The letters are mostly tipped in between leaves and contain a mixture of congratulations, acknowledgements, routine party business and constituency matters. The correspondents include cabinet ministers, Liberal party supporters and activists in Merioneth, and statesmen including Henry Campbell-Bannerman, 1901, 1903 (ff. 11, 13), Lord Rosebery, 1902 (f. 14), H. H. Asquith, 1902 (f. 17-18), A. J. Balfour, 1902 (f. 25), and David Lloyd George, [1903] (f. 63). The press cuttings relate to his Parliamentary and constituency work and include a colour portrait entitled 'The Champion of the Ladies', [1909] (p. 86). A group of cuttings, 1901-1904, relate to Lieut. Osmond Williams in South Africa (pp. 77-80).

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 14033E.

Additional Information

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