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Notes, pamphlets, letters, periodicals, poems, photographs, short stories, lectures, information packs, publicity material and travel ephemera collected by Jan Morris in the course of research for her published works of non-fiction and fiction, including material relating to the British empire (especially in Africa and India), the Yakima Indian Reservation (Washington State), Canada (including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Victoria [British Columbia]), the Great Famine in Northern Ireland, Hitler's ideas about the British empire, the Gallipoli landings, the battle of Magersfontein (Orange Free State), Oxford University (including the Senior Common Room at University College and the Arts Festival), Venice, Trieste, gender roles, Welsh genealogy, an obituary for David W. Jones (Dewi Glan Tâf), Hedd Wyn, international development finance, decolonisation, scuptors and statues, torture, Welsh and English poetry, and Concorde.

The series comprises printed travel literature, including maps and plans, collected by Jan Morris on her numerous trips throughout Britain and around the world, and used by her as research when compiling her various publications.

The file comprises Jan Morris's notes on the extent and influence of the British Empire in relation to various other countries. Many of the books have notes on various individuals who were influential in the colonisation of many of the countries. A list of the countries visited between 1965 and 1970, during the course of her research, may be found in notebook 1/4(xi). Many of the notebooks contain sketches of buildings and landmarks found in many of the countries, and all the notebooks contain a bibilography and a list of the countries visited whilst conducting her research.

The file comprises notebooks containing research notes relating to the publication of Pax Britannica. Many of the notebooks contain sketches of scenes of various landmarks and buildings visited by Jan Morris whilst compiling her notes on different countries.

Travel literature: Portugal (1969-1993), Romania (1991-1994), Russia (1957-1993), Seychelles (1974), Slovakia (1994-1996), Slovenia (1992) and South America (1955-1987).

Personal papers of Jan Morris, including letters and postcards to her from publishers, editors, agents, reviewers, translators and other figures in the literary world, as well as academics, officials, friends, family and admirers, and also including some letters to associates of Jan Morris, concerning many aspects of her books and articles and the issues raised by them (sometimes many years after the work was first published), including invitations and requests, as well as her writing career in general and her intellectual, political, social, personal and domestic life, together with reviews of her work, official records, and press cuttings.

The file comprises notebooks used by Jan Morris in her research towards compiling the first chapter of her trilogy relating to the British Empire.

The file comprises two volumes of the first draft of Pax Britannica (London, 1968), 1966, and two volumes each of the second and third drafts, 1967.

The file comprises Jan Morris's research notes, used for the compilation of her book about Oxford, published in 1978.

Typescript drafts of 'Oxford', with manuscript revisions, and a later note on the various editions and impressions of the work, together with editorial comments.

Typescript drafts of articles and chapters by Jan Morris about factual subjects including India, Delhi, Mafeking, Bombay, Gibraltar, Mauritius, A ditch in Egypt, The secret city of Edom, Victoria BC, the British empire and The Times newspaper, as well as a printed copy of an article about Fort Worth, together with fictional stories by Jan Morris including Waiting for Sebastian and Peter Littorio's return.

Legal contracts between Jan Morris and publishers; notifications of Jan Morris's BA and MA degrees from Oxford; a receipt from the Churchill Archives Centre to Jan Morris for letters of Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Arbuthnot Fisher; an invitation to a ball at the Natural History Museum; documents issued by the Venetian Carabinieri and the British Consulate in Trieste concerning items stolen from Jan Morris in Venice; and a note written by Jan Morris to accompany the 2010 Donation of her papers to the National Library of Wales.

Notebooks used by Jan Morris to record details subsequently used to compile her various published works, together with other materials collected by her for the same purpose.

Travel literature: Netherlands (1957-1992), New Zealand (1955-1981), Norway (1952-1994), Pakistan (1957-1979) and Poland (1958-1995).

Travel literature: Middle East (1924-1980).

Travel literature: Manchester (1956), Norfolk (1966-1968), Northamptonshire (1958-1976), Northumberland (1963-1969) and Oxfordshire (1950-1997).

Letters, mostly concerning Jan Morris's work, especially that relating to Trieste, and also the British empire, Wales, Sydney, Europe, Venice, Everest, Abraham Lincoln, and her memoirs.

Letters, mostly concerning Jan Morris's work, especially that relating to the British empire, Oxford, Venice, Everest and the Middle East.

Letters, mostly concerning Jan Morris's work, especially that relating to the British empire, Oxford, Everest, Venice, and her memoirs, as well as the Welsh language and Welsh politics.

Letters, mostly concerning Jan Morris's work, especially that relating to Wales, the British empire, Hong Kong, and her fiction and memoirs.