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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.

Literary papers, 1939-[2001], of the poet Peter Hellings, including drafts and fair copies of poems and translations from the French; together with letters to the poet and his wife Manon Hellings, 1939-2001. Among the most notable correspondents are Robert Herring, Keidrych Rhys, Stephen Spender and Vernon Watkins.

Includes photocopies of his editorials and poems published in Dawn, 1947-1949; typescript copy, 1953, of 'Pyramid fires' published in Rann, no. 19, April 1953; together with memories of time spent in Palestine, 1941-1945, by an unknown person, [1990s]; and a list of poems by Peter Hellings drawn up by Hugh Price, [1990s].

Photocopies of his poems published in periodicals: 'Display', Wales, October 1939; 'The Exiles (Rapsody on a Theme of Heine)', Orientations, August 1943; 'The New Canterbury Tale. Toll and Triumph', Life and Letters To-day, April 1944; 'Ceremonies of Bravery', Life and Letters To-day, January 1946; 'Firwework Music', Life and Letters, November 1946; 'Prometheus. God of the Atom', Life and Letters, June 1949; 'Mad without tears', The Welsh Review, Autumn 1947; and 'Five landscapes', The Welsh Review, Summer 1948; together with 'Ballad of Hunt's Bay' by Vernon Watkins, Life and Letters, April 1945. Also included are photocopies of front covers of other periodicals and publications and lists of contents, 1940-1951, which featured poems by Peter Hellings.

Press cuttings, 1983-1996, relating to his work including his sonnet 'Tree Fall' awarded the Wales Writers' Group Prize in the Cardiff International Poetry Competition in 1989 and posthumous publications. Included are 'Poet pictures life in old Swansea', South Wales Evening Post, July 1983, relating to the publishing of Swansea Sketchbook and obituary notices; together with a photocopy of a critical essay 'Eastern approaches, Western promise: poets of Swansea after Dylan' by James A. Davies, [New Welsh Review, Swansea Special, Spring 1995].

'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.

Includes papers, 1945-[2000], relating to his volumes of poetry Swansea Sketchbook (Pontefract, 1983), and the publishing and launch of A Form of Words (Pontefract, 1995), and also to his poems published in periodicals.

Drafts of the poems included in 'Round Here. Voices from Dyfed', 1987-1988, and a copy of the completed poems [issued privately as a Christmas gift to friends and fellow writers] published in his A Form of Words in 1995.

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

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.

Drafts of translations by Peter and Madeline (Manon) Hellings, [1984]-[1999], published as Versions of Villon in 1999.

Poems 'To Peter', 'King Crimson i.m. Peter Hellings' (authors unknown), [1994], 'Peter (For Jennifer and Manon)' and 'Mentor' by [?Brian Lewis], 24 September 1994.

Includes photocopies of a series of poems 'Enemies of forgetting' by Peter Hellings which appeared in Welsh Review, Winter 1948; a copy of Music calling, Christmas magazine, January 1945, containing his poem 'Frozen voices', together with other poems including 'The chemistry of oblivion. Epitaph for an unknown poet', 1981, and 'In Sarajevo', 1993. The file also includes a photocopy of an account of the funeral of his father Lieutenant Frank Hellings, who died while Peter Hellings was still a pupil at the Grammar School, [1930s].