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

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 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 a manuscript draft of 'The Death of Harold', which was written for The Tablet in 1966 but was unfinished and therefore unpublished.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 twelve files of manuscript and typescript drafts of the poem and its introduction, proofs for Agenda 1967, and BBC scripts.

The series comprises manuscript drafts of The Dying Gaul with broadcast scripts.

The series comprises twelve files of manuscript and typescript drafts of the poem 'The Fatigue' and its introduction, proofs, and scripts for a broadcast reading.
'The Fatigue' was privately printed by friends for David Jones' 70th birthday, on 1 November 1965. David Jones has dated the introduction to the poem August 18th 1965 on page 26. The BBC Third Programme (produced by Douglas Cleverdon) recorded David Jones reading this poem in March 1965. David Jones notes in these files that the poem was 'read on June 3rd 1964 for television' and 'read on Oct. 15 1964 for Brit[ish] Council for Harvard' [library of recordings]. It appears that this 'fragment' was written, or adapted from an earlier work, by David Jones following a request for material to be recorded.

The series comprises six files of manuscript drafts of the poem, scripts of a BBC recording in 1958, and drafts of an introduction to a recording for disc c. 1963.

The series comprises six files of manuscript and typescript drafts of various versions of the 'Mass' poem, with related correspondence.

The series comprises a complete manuscript draft of 'The Narrows'.
'The Narrows' was first published in the Anglo-Welsh Review, vol. 22, no. 50 (Autumn 1973) pp. 8-12, and in Agenda, Autumn-Winter 1973-1974. It was later published as a pamphlet with an introduction by Roland Mathias by the Interim Press in 1981.

The series comprises manuscript drafts of 'The Old Quarry', Part 1, and typescript drafts of Parts 1 and 2.
Section III of The Roman Quarry consists of 'The Old Quarry Part One', 'The Agent', and 'The Old Quarry Part Two'. 'The Old Quarry' follows on from 'The Grail Mass'. The second half of the Old Quarry is mentioned in letters in 1940 and 1962 to Harman Grisewood.

The series comprises a manuscript draft and a typescript draft of 'The Roman Quarry'.

The series comprises three manuscript drafts of the poem.

The series comprises six files of manuscript drafts of the poem and its introduction, proofs, and a copy of The Listener, 1958.