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Correspondence comprising letters, emails and cards sent between Gwyneth Lewis, friends, publishers, agents, literary associates, members of the public, academics, colleges, archival institutions, family, neighbours, commercial companies, local councils and road safety enforcement bodies concerning literary, professional, social, personal and domestic matters including the publication and performance of her work in a variety of formats, reaction to her work (notably Two in a Boat, Sunbathing in the Rain and A Hospital Odyssey), a job reference for a fellowship at Stanford written for her by the editor of Poetry Review, her relations with agents, her research, the problems of translation, a letter composed by her to John Milton (1608-1674), the registration of four of her published works under public lending right, the transfer of her papers to an archive, the sale of an antique by her to Girton College, Cambridge, literary prizes, and the work of other poets, as well as a letter to Gwyneth Lewis’s parents concerning a family friend, together with related offprints, photocopies and forms. The paper on which some of the emails are printed comprises documents relating to insurance for Gwyneth Lewis’s yacht ‘Jameeleh’.

Papers relating to festivals, readings and workshops attended by Gwyneth Lewis, in most cases as a contributor, including correspondence between her and event organisers and participants, notes and annotated manuscript and typescript drafts relating to talks and workshops given by her, a transcript of an interview between 'CB' and [Javier Marias], and other material relating to aspects of literary events such as copies and printouts of work and interviews by other writers, promotional leaflets, press releases, and information about speakers, schedules, accommodation, travel, legal and financial matters, and the organising bodies; the festivals, readings and workshops featured include the Trialogue Conference, the International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine and Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, a Welsh Literature Abroad translation workshop in Brussels, a Poetry Live workshop, the Radcliffe Institute MA in Creative Writing, a poetry masterclass at Monmouth Women’s Festival, the Durham Book Festival, a visit to Durham University Centre for Medical Humanities, the Royal Society of Literature, the University of Warwick Medical School, Llenyddiaeth Cymru, the Hay Festival of Literature and Arts, ‘Poets Encounter Medicine’ (Glamorgan Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science, University of Glamorgan), ‘Poems for the waiting room’ (sponsored by the Arts Council of England, the Department of Health and other organisations), the John Rylands University Library Poetry Reading, Kingston University, the Centre for Medical Humanities, Ledbury Poetry Festival, the Centre for Women’s Writing and Literary Culture (Aberystwyth University), the National Library of Wales, ‘Worlds 2011: Influence’ (Writers’ Centre Norwich), and others.