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Typescript paper 'The Statistical and Intelligence Requirements of the Ministry', August 1946, prepared by G. H. Daniel as Head of the Statistics branch of the Ministry of Town and Country Planning from 1943 until 1947.

Mainly manuscript and typescript notes, 1970-1987, prepared by Sir Goronwy Daniel for addresses and speeches on themes relating to the arts in Wales, together with a small quantity of related printed items and press cuttings. The file also contains notes for an address on 'Yr Ieuanc a Disgyblaeth Heddiw' delivered by Sir Goronwy at Cyfundeb Annibynwyr Penfro, 16 July 1980.

Memorial tributes and obituaries, 1955-1993, including to Sir John Goronwy Edwards (by Professor J. Beverley Smith), 1976, Professor Trevor Ellis Evans (by Sir Goronwy Daniel as Principal), 1974, Dr Thomas Jones, 1955, Sir David Hughes Parry (by Sir Ben Bowen Thomas), 1973, and Sir Ben Bowen Thomas, 1977.

Printed items, typescript and press cuttings, and a few letters, 1984-1987, on the general theme of unemployment. There are references to the 1984-1985 miners' strike in South Wales. The file includes letters from Derrick Childs, Archbishop of Wales, (2) 1986, Nicholas Edwards (3), 1984-1986, Rev. John Gwilym Jones (2), 1986, Elaine Morgan (2), 1986, Siân Phillips (2), 1986, Sir Cennydd Traherne, 1986, Peter Walker (2), 1984, and John Aloysius Ward, Archbishop of Cardiff, 1986.

Mainly typescript and printed material, 1985-1993, concerning the University of Wales, including numerous reports of committees and working groups, minutes of meetings of the University Council, memoranda, newsletters published by the University of Wales, papers relating to the admission of new constituent institutions to the University, the proceedings of the Rosser working party, the 1992 Research Assessment Exercise, the role of the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales etc. The correspondents include James Callaghan, 1993, Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos (2), 1992-1993, Professor R. Geraint Gruffydd, 1993, Dr Brynley F. Roberts, 1993, Sir Wyn Roberts, 1992, Sir Melvyn Rosser (3), 1992-1993, George Thomas, 1989, and Sir John Meurig Thomas, 1992.

Mainly the typescript texts of lectures and talks given by Sir Goronwy Daniel, 1969-1993, to the inter-collegiate eisteddfod 1969; the Urdd National Eisteddfod, 1969; 'General Lectures for First-Year Students' at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1969; 'Living in Wales' (the Principal's Annual Address to first year students at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth); the opening of the industrial exhibition at the Ammanford National Eisteddfod, 1970; a talk on 'Welsh Nationalism' at Chester, March 1970; an address to the Congress of Celtic Youth, November 1970; 'Addysg Uwch drwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg', 3 July 1971, subsequently published in Yr Athro, September 1971; 'Welsh Nursery Schools: an important movement' to the St Davids Day dinner of the Haverfordwest Cymmrodorion Society, 4 March 1974, etc. The file also includes similar material prepared by Dr Douglas Bassett, 1987-1989.

Printed matter, 1963-1988, on the water industry, including material on the levels of water charges, water industry management and structure, the 1973 Water Act and the re-organisation of the water industry, and the involvement of the Prince of Wales Committee.

Correspondence and papers, 1966-1992, relating to the general theme of Welsh government and devolution, including the typescript texts of several articles and papers written by Sir Goronwy Daniel, the reform and re-organisation of local government in England and Wales, and material concerning the Crowther (later Kilbrandon) Commission on the Constitution. The correspondents include Professor Brinley Thomas (2), 1969-1971.

Printed items, typescripts, press cuttings, and some letters, 1963-1994, on the Welsh language. They include material on the 1963 Report of the Council for Wales and Monmouthshire, teaching through the medium of the Welsh language in the University of Wales, parliamentary debates on the status of the Welsh language, broadcasting, bilingual road signs, the use of the Welsh language in the law courts, the Welsh language and the education system, the 1971 Census, publishing in the Welsh language, and Welsh language television.