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The series comprises a manuscript draft of 'The Death of Harold', which was written for The Tablet in 1966 but was unfinished and therefore unpublished.

The series comprises manuscript and typescript drafts of 'The Book of Balaam's Ass'.
Part of Balaam's Ass was printed in The Sleeping Lord. David Jones began working on 'Balaam's Ass' before In Parenthesis was ready for the press, but he abandoned the project.

'From The Book of Balaam's Ass' is a fragment of a much longer writing made in the late 1930s and early 1940s provisionally called 'The Book of Balaam's Ass' which was later abandoned by David Jones.
The series comprises three files of manuscript drafts of the poem with notes.

The series comprises manuscript and typescript drafts of 'The Agent'.
David Jones writes about 'The Agent' in a letter to Harman Grisewood in 1962, stating that he is trying to 're-write a thing I did in 1940 (or thereabouts) about a conversation between Judas and Caiaphas'.

The series comprises the setting copy and corrected page proofs of The Dying Gaul.

The series comprises reviews of and commentaries on The Anathemata, correspondence relating to the book, most importantly from David Jones to Desmond Chute, and related material.

The series comprises material for A Commentary on The Anathemata of David Jones by René Hague, published by Christopher Skelton in 1977. There are typescript drafts of the Commentary with manuscript comments by David Jones, and related correspondence.

The series comprises a contract for In Parenthesis with Faber and Faber, a copy of the introduction, reviews, publicity, notes and correspondence.

The series comprises material relating to the publication of The Roman Quarry, including typescript drafts of René Hague's Commentary, typescript copies of the poems for publication, manuscript poems which were not included in the volume, and related correspondence.

The group comprises papers showing income and expenditure of David Jones, including papers relating to the Bollinger foundation and Clark trust, and receipts and invoices from tailors, publishers, newsagents, grocers, artists suppliers, and household bills.

The series comprises a copy of the articles for the printers, proofs, corrections, correspondence, publishers agreement and reviews.

The series comprises galleys, page proofs, revised page proofs and second revise page proofs.

The series comprises part of an early proof probably printed in 1936, twelve sets of proofs printed in 1937, and an unbound edition of the 1961 edition of In Parenthesis. The proofs were printed by Hague and Gill Limited, High Wycombe.

The series comprises miscellaneous pamphlets and publications, maps, and press cuttings, including a copy of Eric Gill's Emblems, 1916.

The series comprises letters, postcards, Christmas cards, birthday cards, telegrams and invitations from various people.

The series comprises diaries and personal documents, papers relating to David Jones as a soldier in the First World War, and medical records.

The series comprises material relating to David Jones as an artist, with exhibition catalogues, drafts of letters by David Jones principally relating to art, and lists of paintings.

The series comprises other literary papers produced by David Jones, and papers relating to literary works by him. They include an article by David Jones about going to war, his reply on receiving the Hawthornden award, his speech in absentia when receiving his honorary degree from the University of Wales, Bangor, and a review by him of Rejoice in the Lamb. There are also papers relating to The Anathemata, 'Art and Democracy', The Sleeping Lord, Epoch and Artist, 'The Tutelar of the Place', The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, In Parenthesis, and 'A,a,a, Domine Deus'.

The series comprises manuscript notes by David Jones which Harman Grisewood refers to as the 'Notebook notes'. Although David Jones did not keep many research note books, these papers correspond to what they might have contained. They include sketches, notes, drafts of incomplete letters and texts (possibly of parts of In Parenthesis), Welsh and Latin words, historical dates, lists etc. A few pages are dated 1944, 1946, 1955, 1962, 1963, 1951, 1971. There is a coloured list of David Jones' medication in file 1 f.1, a note on an unused illustration to In Parenthesis in file 2 f. 1, and a coloured history 'map' in file 3, ff. 1-6.

The series comprises material actually published in Dai Greatcoat, including copies of David Jones' letters, drafts and settings copies of the book, and related material.