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Collection of cards and letters exchanged by David Lloyd George and Jennifer Longford as a child, who addressess him "Taid" (the Welsh for grandfather). In one letter Jennifer writes "Taid darling, I do so wish that you would go into the Government. After all Halifax can't harm you. Think of it in that way. And then think how many people you are disappointing by not going in. Out of the forty-seven million people in this country, you are propbably disappointing about forty-six million people. As for me, you are disappointing me more than anybody else. Please will you write and tell me what you think about itwhen you have made up your mkind", two pages, 8vo, Penrhos College at Chatsworth, Derbyshire, 3 November 1940. In his reply to her, Lloyd George says "Yow want to know why I have declined to join the War Cabinet when I was given the ofer, I have asked Mummy to tell you my reasons...but I can give you just a hint - for yourself alone. 1) I do not believe in the way we entered the war nor in the methods by which it has been conducted. We have made blunders after blunders and we are still blundering. Unless there is a thorough change of politics, we shall never win. 2) I do not believe in the way in which the War Cabinet is constituted. It is totally different to the War cabinet in the last war. Mummy will explain...", four pages, 8vo, Criccieth, 11 November 1940. Also included are postacrds sent by Lloyd George from various locations (one featuring a handpainted picture of Criccieth and reading "Here is the reiver where Taid used to catch fishes when he was a little boy"; another one sent from aboard the T.S.S. Andalucia and reading "Here is the big ship that is taking taid to Lisbon. There is a little girl just like you...she is running about the deck", 12 January 1934) , as well as Christmas cards. (small quantity)