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Mae'r ffeil yn cynnwys gohebiaeth gyffredinol yn ymwneud â chyhoeddi Cyfres y Clasuron, adroddiadau a llythyrau yn ymwneud â materion gweinyddol yn ogystal â gohebiaeth gweddol fanwl rhwng Geraint Gruffydd a Saunders Lewis ynglŷn â chyhoeddi Meistri a'u Crefft, Gwynn ap Gwilym, gol. (Caerdydd, 1981), 1977-1980.

Mae'r gyfres yn cynnwys deunydd yn ymwneud â chais yr Academi i ennill Gwobr Nobel am Lenyddiaeth i Saunders Lewis yn ystod y 1970au a'r 1980au, syniad a gyflwynwyd yn wreiddiol gan Vernon Jones, athro yn Ysgol Y Berwyn Y Bala, ym 1966. Mae'n cynnwys gohebiaeth a deisebau yn erfyn cefnogaeth unigolion dylanwadol o gylchoedd gwleidyddol, crefyddol ac academaidd, yn ogystal â chopïau o'r cais gwreiddiol ar gyfer 1971 a chais diwygiedig ar gyfer 1977. Parhawyd i gyflwyno'r cais tan o leiaf 1981.

The file comprises forty letters from Saunders Lewis to David Jones, relating to David Jones' literature, broadcasts, and art exhibitions, and to Saunders Lewis's plays, Tynged yr Iaith and to his incarceration. There are two letters from Margaret, Saunders Lewis' wife (ff. 2-3), and a letter from Thomas Charles Edwards, 1937 (f. 1).

The file comprises one fragment of one sheet of the preface to The Anathemata; a typescript sheet of comments on The Anathemata possibly by Saunders Lewis, and miscellaneous notes on The Anathemata manuscripts and typescripts prepared by Harman Grisewood for his catalogue, 1975-1976.

The file contains a BBC script of 'The Dream of Private Clitus' with an introduction by Saunders Lewis. The last page is missing.

The file comprises a list of beneficiaries in David Jones' hand, and the same list in Saunders Lewis' hand (post 1962) , David Jones' 'diet sheet' and directions for convalescence, and a cheque, 1970.

The file comprises a typescript copy (possibly a broadcast script) of an English translation of Siwan by Saunders Lewis. Siwan was translated as A King's daughter in 1954, and a translation by Emyr Humphreys was published in Presenting Saunders Lewis, ed. Alun R. Jones and Gwyn Thomas (Cardiff, 1973).

The file comprises a script of a commissioned Third Programme talk by Saunders Lewis entitled 'The Tradition of Taliesin', presented to David Jones by the author, 5 July 1965.

Sgript y ddrama 'Cell y Grog' gyda nodiadau yn llaw Saunders Lewis ei hun [118/1]; ynghyd â chopi, wedi ei lofnodi, o'i ragair Wrth Aros Godot (Caerdydd, 1970), ei gyfieithiad o'r drama 'En Attendand Godot' gan Samuel Beckett [118/2]. = A copy of the script of 'Cell y Grog' with notes in Saunders Lewis's hand [118/1]; together with an initialed copy of his preface to Wrth Aros Godot (Caerdydd, 1970), his Welsh translation of Samuel Beckett's play 'En Attendand Godot' [118/2].

The file contains a typescript draft, 1951, of 'The lion and the owl', a translation by Glyn Jones of 'Blodeuwedd' by Saunders Lewis. Also included is a programme, tickets and press cuttings of reviews of the play presented at the Everyman Theatre, Cardiff, 1955.

The series comprises lectures, notes and correspondence relating to meetings, the publication of articles by HFJ in Y Ddraig Goch, contributions to a fund on behalf of Saunders Lewis, D J Williams and Lewis Valentine, and towards party finance.

Papers, 1901-1991, of dramatist, poet and literary critic John Saunders Lewis consisting mainly of correspondence and comprising letters, 1914-1955, between Saunders Lewis and Margaret Lewis (née Gilcriest), including letters written whilst Saunders Lewis was serving in the First World War and whilst he was imprisoned in Wormwood Scrubs in 1937; letters, 1919-1984, to Saunders Lewis from various correspondents, including seventy-three letters, 1923-1983, from Kate Roberts, and fifty-three letters and cards, 1948-1974, from artist and writer David Jones, together with letters, 1937, to Margaret Lewis from David Jones and from various correspondents to her, 1919-1951; letters, 1919-1924, to Saunders Lewis from his father Lodwig Lewis, and letters, 1952, 1984-[c. 1986], to Mair Saunders Jones, daughter of Saunders and Margaret Lewis, including a letter, 1952, from Kate Roberts; together with autograph and typescript drafts of plays by Saunders Lewis, 1936-1983, articles, notes and addresses by him, including students notebooks of 1914-1920, and poetry, 1912-1947, by both Saunders and Margaret Lewis.
References include those to Plaid Cymru, Welsh nationalism, contemporary Welsh literature, the state of the Welsh language at the time, and Roman Catholicism.

The file comprises letters and papers relating to David Jones, writer and artist, collected by Ray Howard-Jones, a friend of many years. The papers include correspondence with his niece after his death, letters from Saunders Lewis and Jack Raymond Jones, obituary notices, press cuttings relating to his life and career, papers relating to a memorial exhibition for him, in which Ray Howard-Jones took part, a newsletter of the David Jones Society, a poem by Ray Howard-Jones in his memory, and other papers, together with a photocopy of part of a letter in the hand of David Jones.

Photocopies of drafts and proofs of works by Saunders Lewis, comprising Problemau Prifysgol, Cymru Fydd, Y Cyrnol Chabert and T1938, 'Cell y Grog', Dwy Briodas Ann and the English version of 'Serch yw'r Doctor' (see NLW MSS 22953-4, 22956-8, 22960-2), together with a copy of Steven Runciman, The Sicilian Vespers (Cambridge, 1958) used by Saunders Lewis while compiling notes for a play set in the Pope's palace at Orvieto, 1281 (see NLW MS 22959).

Original manuscript of the Welsh text of Saunders Lewis's address to the jury during his trial at Caernarfon Assizes, October 1936, for arson at the Penyberth Bombing School. The Welsh text, described by Saunders Lewis as 'partly strict translation but in part a separate and different composition' (see NLW MS 22951C, f. i), was subsequently published as a pamphlet Paham y Llosgasom yr Ysgol Fomio (1936).

A copy of a typescript draft, 1962, with autograph revision, of Saunders Lewis's play Problemau Prifysgol (Llandybïe, 1968).

Manuscript draft of an article, in Welsh, by Saunders Lewis on 'Owen M. Edwards', published in Triwyr Penllyn (Caerdydd, 1956), edited by Gwynedd O. Pierce, together with a related letter, 1956, from Saunders Lewis to the latter.

Seven letters, 1929-36, from Saunders Lewis to Tegwen M. Clee, afterwards Morris, mainly relating to the Welsh Nationalist Party, together with a draft article, 'Merched Llydaw' by Tegwen Clee, and other related papers, 1929-1931.

A letter, 3 December 1927, in Welsh, from Saunders Lewis to the Rev. D. Llewelyn Jones, Pontrhydygroes, Cardiganshire, relating to Lewis's Williams Pantycelyn (London, 1927), reviewed by D. Llewelyn Jones in Baner ac Amserau Cymru, 20 December 1927, p. 7, and 27 December 1927, p. 5.
There is an explanatory note by D. Llewelyn Jones on the envelope (f. 149a verso).

A letter, November 1954 (dated 'Calan Gaeaf MCMLIV' [1 November 1954] but completed at a later date), and decorated with a coloured inscription, from the artist and writer David Jones to the dramatist, poet and critic Saunders Lewis.
The letter contains personal news and refers to the Lewis's contribution to a radio broadcast about David Jones transmitted on the Welsh Home Service, 29 October 1954 (see NLW, Alun Oldfield-Davies Papers 27 for a copy of the script).