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The file comprises letters to David Jones from editors and publishers (other than Faber and Faber), with letters from Alwyn D. Rees, Moelwyn Merchant, George Ewart Evans, Raymond Garlick, Keidrych Rhys, Stephen Spender, Louis G. Cowan, John H. Johnston, Neville Braybrooke, Myra Owen, K. M. E. Murray, Bernard Bergonzi, Elizabeth Pakenham, Fr. Illtud Evans, Ffransis Payne, Kenneth Clark, Henry Rago, Eleanor Farjeon and others.

The file comprises letters to David Jones arranged alphabetically, C-D, including Kenneth Clarke, William Cookson, J. L. C. Cecil-Williams, Douglas Cleverdon, A. Closs, Alasdair Clayre, Louis G. Cowan, Christopher Dawson, Aneirin Talfan Davies (incomplete), Tudor David, J. I. Daniel and others.

The file comprises letters and post cards to David Jones from A. S. Hartrick, Rex Nan Kivell, Tom Burns, Janet Stone, Sir Kenneth Clark, Aneirin Talfan Davies, Harman Grisewood, Illtud Evans, Moelwyn Merchant, Anthony Steel, Saunders Lewis, Christopher Dawson, William Hayward, Bryn Griffiths, Colin Hughes, Nancy Sandars, August Closs, [Arthur Giardelli], E.V.C. Plumptre, Jack Sweeney and others.

The file comprises manuscript drafts of letters from David Jones to friends. The addressees have in most cases been identified by Harman Grisewood and are listed on the wrapper. They include Stella Wright, Colin Hardie, Mr Plumtre, Peter Levi, Herbert Read, Theodore Bailly, Clarissa Eden, Jack Sweeney, Kenneth Clark, Mike Richey, Nancy Sanders, Kathleen Raine, T. S. Eliot and Louis Bonnerot. Amongst the subjects discussed in these letters are The Anathemata (referred to as 'a thing I've been struggling with for some years' in a draft letter to Colin Hardie dated 11 July 1945); Welsh history and the Welsh language (subjects which appear in several of these letters); 'The Fatigue' (1965); an inscription for the ordination of Peter Levi (1964, 1967); 'the general civilizational predicament vis-à-vis 'the arts''; the vernacularization of the Mass ('I've wasted hours & hours & days & days, writing & destroying letters addressed to The Tablet---', 1965); 'my new piece' ('The Sleeping Lord', 1967); Rembrandt (in a draft letter to Lord Clark, 1966); 'The Wall' (1967); Roman roads (1967); his family background and 'The Dream of Private Clitus' (in a draft letter to Louis Bonnerot, n.d.). There is a draft letter of condolence to Valerie Eliot on the death of her husband, T. S. Eliot.

The file comprises letters from various people including D. Brynmor Anthony, Vernon Watkins (6, 1 incomplete) and Gwen Watkins, William Cookson, Howard Griffin, Vincent Lines (3), Vera Bassett, Neville Braybrooke (4), K. M. Elisabeth Murray, Louis Bonnerot, Percival R. Kirby, Sir Ifor Evans (2), Charles L. H. Duchemin (4), Arnold Palmer (3), William Blissett, Raymond Garlick (2), John Buckland Wright, August Closs (4), D. Emrys Evans, Helen Sutherland (2), David Bell (2), Megan Lloyd George, T. Charles Edwards, Valerie Wynne-Williams (2), J. E. Jones, William Hayward (4), John P[iper], Sir John Cecil Williams (2), Donald Nicholl (5), A. Robert Caponigri, Prof. Thomas Jones (3), Elwyn Evans (2), Alun Oldfield-Davies (3, 1 incomplete), Canon Walter Hussey, Alan Pryce-Jones, Geraint Gruffydd (2), Harman Grisewood, V. E. Nash-Williams, Kenneth Clark, Dr Charles Burns (incomplete), Colin Wilcockson, Janet Stone and W. B. Dalton.