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Miscellaneous papers including Music Calling concert programmes, 1944-1945, organised for the Forces in Jerusalem and a photograph of the YMCA building in Jerusalem, Christmas 1944, where the concerts were held; a tribute, [1988], to W. John Morgan, 'Young John Morgan. Talker and Writer', journalist, in the form of a collection of his earliest printed writings which appeared in Dawn, 1947-1950, with an introduction by Peter Hellings; and 'Swansea Gower Anthology', photocopies of poems and prose, including some by Peter Hellings.

Notebook containing his early poems including 'Material for magic. For M, on her birthday, July 1947'.

Letters, 1981-1999, written to Peter Hellings and afterwards to his wife Manon, including letters from Raymond Garlick (1), Johnny Morris (1), Meic Stephens (4), Ned Thomas (1) and Barry Took (1).

Testimonial letters and letters relating to his teaching appointments and career, 1950-1961, together with his curriculum vitae, [1957].

Handwritten drafts of some of the poems entitled 'A Form of Words. Reflections in Retreat' written after he retired from teaching in 1980 and typescript versions of these. The title 'Educational Times' was later given to the collection.

Includes lists of the invitees to book launches in Swansea and Birmingham and books to be given for reviews, [1994]-[1995], and [Manon Hellings's] reminiscences of her husband.

Translations, 1984, by Peter and Madeline (Manon) Hellings of poems by the French poet François Villon entitled 'Ballades', 1984, and 'Versions of Villon', 1988; typescript and manuscript drafts of the translations, with the French text of ballads, notes by Manon Hellings and suggestions by Nicole Crossley-Holland; 'The Legacy' by Villon, 1984; and 'Sonnets from Les Fleurs du Mal' by Charles Baudelaire.

'From myself. Postcards', 1980-1981; 'Post cards for M', 1990; 'Vacances', 1982-1983; 'Animations. Real pictures for imaginary children', 1983; and 'Verse studies from the Mabinogion', 1987; together with miscellaneous poems, [1980]-1994.

'The temptation of John Milton' by Peter Hellings in typescript with remarks and photocopies of 'A note on the sonnets of Milton' [published in Life and Letters, March 1950]; photocopies of 'The county of Gloucester' by 'PBH', Swansea Grammar School Magazine, [July 1937], and 'Frederico Garcia Lorca', Citadel, May 1943; 'Farewell to love. The unintelligible lines' relating to John Donne's poetry, [1937]-[1950], in typescript.

Letters, 1941-2001. Among the correspondents are Elwyn Evans, Jackson Mathews, Rush Rhys (3), Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, Glyn Jones, Brian [Lewis] (3), Raymond Garlick, Gwyn Jones, Nicole Crossley-Holland, Nigel Jenkins; together with letters received by Manon Hellings in the years after her husband's death. Also included is a postcard sent by Peter Hellings to his mother in 1946 from Jerusalem.

Letters, [1949]-[1954], written by Peter Hellings to his wife including some written while she was staying with her family in France.

A notebook relating to the sales and gifts of A Swansea Sketchbook published in 1983; together with related letters and a letter, 1996, from Meic Stephens suggesting an edition of Peter Hellings's collected poems. Also included are photocopies of critical essays, 1984, by students written on the poem 'A Light Grey Day. Swansea Crematorium, Morriston', originally published in A Swansea Sketchbook.

Drafts of a talk prepared by Manon and Peter Hellings on the poets who lived in Paris from the thirteenth to the twentieth century, [1980x1985], together with translations of poems by Deschamps, Verlaine, Baudelaire, Laforgue and others used to illustrate the talk.

Included are his birth, marriage and death certificates; death certificate of his mother Dorothy Hellings, 1977; three passports which belonged to Peter Hellings, issued 1947, 1957 and 1967; degree examination papers, 1950; Royal Air Force Service And Release Book, 1941-1946. Also included are letters, 1941-1942, relating to the British Empire Medal awarded to him for his bravery, and graduation programme and certificate, 1950; together with two certificates, 1949, 1951, awarded to him for his poems in eisteddfodau organised by students of the Universities of Wales; and genealogical details.