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Miscellaneous papers, 1970-1985, relating to Welsh broadcasting, mainly television, including papers on the development of the BBC television service, the campaign to secure a Welsh language television channel, the role of the Broadcasting Council for Wales, the stand made by Gwynfor Evans in 1980, the 1981 Broadcasting Act, and the establishment of S4C. The correspondents include Alun Talfan Davies, 1972, Gwynfor Evans (4), 1972-1980, Cledwyn Hughes (3), 1980, Glyn Tegai Hughes (3), 1972-1973, Emyr Jenkins, 1980, Jâms Nicolas (James Nicholas), 1980, Alwyn D. Rees (2), 1972, Gwilym Williams, Archbishop of Wales (2), 1973-1980.

Includes letters from Elias Owens, Peter Greenham, Laurence Whistler (2), Eirene White, Alastair Panton, Graham Sutherland, Gwilym O. Williams, Henry Paget (Marquess of Anglesey, 2), Fred Uhlman, Lloyd Kenyon (5), Richard Eurich (3), James Fitton, David Jenkins (2), and Ivor Roberts-Jones.

Includes letters from Allan Gwynne-Jones, John Ward, Ivor Roberts-Jones (2), Richard Eurich, Eiluned Rees (5), Charles Oman, Robert W. Steel (2), Peter Cannon-Brookes, Moelwyn Merchant, Peter Jones (2), Gareth Alban Davies, and Gwilym O. Williams (2).

Includes letters from Henry Paget (Marquess of Anglesey, 3), Gwilym O. Williams, David Brown, Charles Wynne Finch, Peter Greenham, Derec Llwyd Morgan, Alistair Crawford, R. Geraint Gruffydd (3), Eiluned Rees, John Ormond (2), Alun Talfan Davies (2), Dafydd Wigley, Wyn Roberts, Richard Eurich, James Nicholas (englyn, 'Yn y Stabl'), Alwina H. Thomas, Luned Roberts de González, Tegai Roberts, Peter Wakefield, and Anna Haycraft.

Includes letters from Fred Uhlman (3), Edward Bawden, Tim Jeal, Nicholas Edwards, Peter Thomas, Allan Gwynne-Jones, A. Tudno Williams, Jack Raymond Jones, Joan Connell, John Ormond (4), Gwilym O. Williams, Gareth Alban Davies, Priscilla Anderson (2), and Ivor Roberts-Jones.

Includes letters from Jack Raymond Jones (2), Gwilym O. Williams, Meic Stephens, Ralph Edwards (4), Franta Belsky, Priscilla Anderson (2), Clough Williams-Ellis, Joan Connell, Ieuan Rees, David Jenkins, Bernard Dunstan, and Diana Armfield.

Some one hundred and forty letters, 1948-1997, in English and Welsh, to John Elwyn from various correspondents (surnames S-W), both personal and work related.
The correspondents include Christopher Sandford, 1953 (ff. 12-13), Meic Stephens, 12 December 1995 (f. 22), Winifred Coombe-Tennant, 19 February 1948 (f. 33), Dewi-Prys Thomas, 1977-1978 (ff. 36-37), David Tinker, 1967 (ff. 44-45), John Ward, 1967-1992 (ff. 75-78 verso), George Weber of Edmonton, Alberta, 1987-1994 (ff. 81-97 verso), Sir Huw Wheldon, 1961, [?late 1970s] (ff. 116-118), Phillip Whitfield, 1991-1996 (ff. 119-146 verso), the Rev. G[wilym] O[wen] Williams, 20 February 1952 (f. 158), Kyffin Williams, [1960s]-1995 (ff. 161-167), Stan Williams, [?early 1990s], (f. 171), and the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, 1965-1967 (ff. 148-153). Also included are draft letters from John Elwyn (ff. 53, 58 verso-59 verso, 63 verso, 100) and drafts of two poems by Phillip Whitfield, 1991-1992 (ff. 124, 127, 129, 131, 134, 138, 141), with a translation into Welsh of one of them [?by John Elwyn], [?1992] (f. 147).

Research papers, 1898-1998, accumulated by Dr R. Brinley Jones while compiling his book Floreat Landubriense: celebrating a century and a half of education at Llandovery College (Llandovery, 1998), including a scrapbook, 1948-1958, bearing the name of Canon G. O. Williams, Warden, 1948-1957, relating mainly to the Llandovery College Centenary Celebrations held in 1949, including letters written to congratulate him on the success of the events, and cuttings concerning his appointment as Warden in 1948; memories, 1899-1948, of the Reverend Canon T. Walker Thomas, a former Warden, and Esther Poole-Hughes, 1915-1928, daughter of the Reverend Canon W. W. Poole Hughes, a former Warden, used for the section 'Voices from within' in the book; notes by Dr R. Brinley Jones taken from The Llandovery School Journal, 1886-1976; and photocopies from this journal and other Welsh periodicals relating to key figures in its history