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Letters and other papers of, or relating to, W. H. Davies, 1908-1960, accumulated by his biographer Lawrence Hockey of Newport.
The collection includes twenty-six letters and postcards from W. H. Davies to his literary agent C. F. Cazenove, concerning his literary activities, 1908-1910 (ff. 1, 3-29), and six, mainly personal, letters from Davies to Lawrence Hockey, 1930-1938 (ff. 30-35), as well as letters to Hockey, mainly concerning Davies, from Augustus John, 1941, 1942 (ff. 36-37), Bertram Rota, 22 October 1947 (ff. 38-39), Louis Blake Duff, 1 January 1949 (ff. 40-43), John Gawsworth, 1949 (ff. 44-45), and Huw Menai, 10 February 1955 (f. 51), and a letter from C[harlotte] F[rances] Shaw (wife of G. B. Shaw) to Cazenove, 1 August 1908 (f. 2). Also included are miscellaneous papers relating to W. H. Davies, including typescript copies for publication of three poems, 'The White Horse', [1927] (published in The London Mercury, 15 (1926-27), 344) and 'The Little Devil', [1930], and 'Love Lights his Fire', [1930] (both published in The London Mercury, 23 (1930-31), 105) (ff. 52-54); a photostat copy, [1946], of his will (f. 56); three photographs (ff. 57-59); and newspaper cuttings, [?1930s] (f. 60), 1960 (ff. 62-63); as well as an unpublished letter, 1 February 1955, from Hockey to the Western Mail, in defence of Huw Menai and criticising Dylan Thomas (ff. 47-50).

Some fifty-eight letters and postcards, 1905-1938, from W. H. Davies to various correspondents, mainly concerning his own work and its publication, including some poetry. The letters were collected by E. E. Bissell.
The correspondents include T. I. F. Armstrong (John Gawsworth), 1931-1938 (ff. 1-22), John Freeman, [?early 1914]-1928 (ff. 24-34), Harold Monro, 1905-1927 (ff. 38-39, 41, 45-70), [James Brand] Pinker, 18 December 1905 (f. 72), [M. P.] Shiel, 1 June 1935 (f. 75), [John Collings] Squire, 1914, 1919 (ff. 76-77), and Edward Thomas, 7 December 1907 (f. 78). Also included are carbon copies of letters to Davies from Gawsworth, 19 August 1932 (f. 10), and Monro, 6 October 1920 (f. 44), and from Monro to Conrad Aiken, 20 July 1925 (f. 71); autograph manuscripts, with printers' markings, of Davies' poems 'The Bird of Paradise', [1913] (f. 40), and 'Body and Spirit', [1914] (ff. 42-43), for publication in Poetry and Drama, 1.4 (December 1913), 421, and 2.4 (December 1914), 350, respectively, and 'When Autumn's Fruit', [1920], published in the New Republic, 26 January 1921, p. 251 (f. 80); a signed typescript of Davies' 'In Winter', [October 1931], published by Gawsworth as a limited edition (f. 2); cuttings of 'Come, Melancholy' and 'Age and Youth' from the New Statesman and Nation, 16 January 1932, pp. 47, 65 (ff. 83-84; see also f. 11); proof pages for Davies' contributions to Known Signatures, ed. by John Gawsworth (London, 1932), pp. 31-33, comprising 'Come, Melancholy', 'Age and Youth' and 'In Winter' (ff. 81-82; see also ff. 10-11, 13-16); fragments of an apparently unpublished poem in Davies' hand entitled 'Sally', cut into five strips (f. 23/1-5); 'Bright Flowers', a autograph poem by John Freeman (f. 35); and a signed carte-de-visite photograph of Davies, [early 1900s], apparently presented by him to Edward Thomas.