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Two letters, 1946-1947, to Gwyn Jones, the first from Dorothea Braby, London, 6 December 1946 (ff. 28-29), and the second from John Cowper Powys, Corwen, 11 November 1947 (ff. 30-32), both of which concern Gwyn and Thomas Jones's new translation of the Mabinogion, published as The Golden Cockerel Mabinogion ([London]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1947).
Braby discusses her illustration for the title page of The Golden Cockerel Mabinogion and includes a written description of its layout (f. 29) (see Professor Gwyn Jones, 'The Golden Cockerel Mabinogion, 1944-1948', Trans. Cymm. (1989), 181-209 (pp. 197-206) for further details and for extracts of related letters from Braby). Powys congratulates Jones on the translation, requests a cheap edition and gives his thoughts on translations in general.

Letter, 4 January 1946, from Robert Graves, Galmpton, nr Brixham, Devon, to Gwyn Jones, in which the sender discusses the literary future of Wales and argues for the Mabinogion as a possible influence on Shakespeare's Tempest.