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The file comprises three manuscript items, not in David Jones's hand, comprising a fragment of Latin prose (possibly an extract from the vita of a saint), a ballad 'The Unquiret [sic] Grave' (see F. J. Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballad, part III (Cambridge, Mass., 1885), pp. 234-8) and what appear to be notes for a lecture entitled 'David Jones, Himself at the Cave-Mouth (cf. William Blisset, 'David Jones : Himself at the Cave-Mouth', University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. XXXVI (1966-7), pp. 259-273).

Includes letters from William Blissett (2); David [Dai] Smith; Gillian Clarke (5); Belinda Humfrey (4); Arthur Giardelli (8); Jeremy Hooker (6); Ned Thomas; Raymond Garlick (6); Ray Howard-Jones; Judith Maro (4); Harri Pritchard Jones (5); John Trice; Gwyn Jones; David Blamires (7); Sally Roberts Jones (4); Meic Stephens (14); Désirée Hirst (5); Glyn Jones (5); Sam Adams (4); Brian Howells (3); Patrick Thomas (notes); A. G. Prys-Jones; Dora Polk (2); Ruth Bidgood (3); Dannie Abse (3); Jon Dressel (2); Wyn Griffith (4); Sheenagh Pugh (2); John Stuart Williams; Cary Archard; Bobi Jones; Richard Poole; and Alan Rudrum.

The file comprises The Dust-robed Dancers by Hugo Manning, with an accompanying letter, 1967, Forebodings by Roger Venables, an offprint of an article by William Blissett, 1965, pamphlets published by the Virgil Society written by J. F. Lockwood, 1961, and Robert Speaight, 1958, and a pamphlet published by the Honourable Society of the Cymmrodorion written by Sir John Cecil-Williams, 1962, with a letter from him dated 1936.

The file comprises typescript and photocopied typescripts of 'Some notes on the draft of the Kensington Mass and the Continuation of the Kensington Mass' by René Hague, and two photocopies of the Kensington Mass manuscript which was published as facsimiles A-O, with also a typed copy. There are a few letters, including two letters to René Hague from William Blisset, 1975, a copy of part of a letter from David Jones, and a letter from W[alter Shewring] to René Hague.

The file comprises correspondence between René Hague and Professor William (Bill) Blissett, Toronto University, about The Roman Quarry and about his book, The Long Conversation: A Memoir of David Jones (Oxford University Press, 1981). There are original letters from William Blissett, and typed copies of René Hague's letters.