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Yn cynnwys llythyrau oddi wrth/Includes letters from: D. J. Bowen; Dr Noelle Davies; David Ennals; June Gruffydd (2); Denis Howell; E. D. Jones (2); Harri Pritchard Jones; Robyn Lewis (2); D. Elystan Morgan; R. S. Thomas; William Whitelaw; Dafydd Wigley.

Personal correspondence, 1986, discussing literary, social, and domestic matters, including letters from R.S. Thomas (1); Pamela Stewart (as Jody Cothey) (19); and Gael Turnbull (1).

Personal correspondence, 1988, consisting of letters and postcards, discussing literary, social, and domestic matters, including correspondence from R. S. Thomas (2); Jan Morris (1); Pamela Stewart (as Jody Cothey) (35); Helle Michelsen (2); Wyn Binding (2); Norman Schwenk (1); Jean Earle (1); Talfan Barnie (1); Roynon Collings (1); and Hamish Whyte (1).

Original file of e-mails, extracts, letters, lists, memoranda, drafts and photocopies of articles etc., including the death of Colonel H. Morrey Salmon, 1985; an English translation of the section on red kites from W. Miall Jones's unpublished manuscript 'Adar gogledd Ceredigion', c.1944; list of letters re. kites in the Condry correspondence file, 1948-1963, and the 'dead' RSPB kite file, 1958-1968 (now C 1-3 below); a draft of Peter Davis's obituary for R. S. Thomas (1913-2000); an obituary to Frances Evans, who started a kite feeding station at Tyndomen, Tregaron (Cambrian News, 19 March 2009); and extracts from papers at NLW and the Carm. CRO.

Papers, 1995-1996, relating to the campaign, fronted by the New Welsh Review, in support of R. S. Thomas's nomination for the 1996 Nobel Prize for Literature. Included are correspondence; copies of letters of support for the nomination; minutes, 1995, of the R. S. Thomas Nobel Prize Steering Committee; together with related notes and press cuttings.

Over one hundred and seventy-five letters, 1951-[1970s], from Timothy Hanley to her son, Liam P. Hanley, containing mainly personal news and comments on the progress of her husband's writing as well as her own literary and artistic work. Also included are letters to James Hanley from other relatives and friends, notably R. S. Thomas (5) 1959-[1984], and from the artist Gladys Vasey to the writer Reginald Graham Moore (1) 1949, both the latter being friends of the Hanleys.

Fifteen letters, July 1997-June 1999, from Raymond Garlick to Jacques Wirz (ff. 1-18), together with nineteen corresponding letters, August 1997-July 1999, from Dr Wirz (ff. 19-52).
The letters contain references to the referendum on devolution in Wales (ff. 3, 4 verso), the death of Diana, Princess of Wales (ff. 3, 5 verso), Brenda Chamberlain (ff. 5, 25 verso-26), Jon Dressel (ff. 6-12 passim), R. S. Thomas (ff. 8 recto-verso, 11 verso, 12), John Cowper Powys (ff. 11, 36) and Andrew Sachs (f. 14). Garlick's letter dated 21 September 1997 (f. 3) is incomplete; the missing part is now NLW MS 23845D, f. 4.

Ymhlith y gohebwyr mae Thomas Parry (12); Iorwerth Peate (8); Caradog Prichard (4); Eigra Lewis Roberts (1); Kate Roberts (20); Wyn Roberts (1); John Rowlands (1); Ben Bowen Thomas (4); Gwyn Thomas (3); Ned Thomas (2); ac R. S. Thomas (1).

Includes letters from Alun Llewellyn (4); Glyn Jones (4); Sam Adams (8); Leslie Norris (4); John Ackerman (4); Moira Dearnley (3); Peter Abbs (6); Neville Masterman (5); L. Alun Page (3); John Tripp (8); John Petts; R. George Thomas (2); Andrew McNeillie; Robert Morgan (9); Meic Stephens (12); Roy Thomas (6); Alison Bielski (4); Jeremy Hooker (7); J. P. Ward (4); Arthur Giardelli (5); Belinda Humfrey (11); Rosamund Stanhope (2); Randal Jenkins (3); H. P. Collins (5); George Ewart Evans (2); Gillian Clarke (8); Raymond Garlick (2); John Stuart Williams (8); Lawrence W. Hockey (2); Tony Curtis (3); Désirée Hirst (2); Graham Allen; Anthony Conran (2); R. S. Thomas; A. G. Prys-Jones (4); and Ray Howard-Jones.

Includes letters from Meic Stephens (36); Leslie Norris (3); Gillian Clarke (7); Jeremy Hooker (4); Sam Adams (3); Ruth Bidgood (7); Jon Dressel (6); Tony Bianchi (7); Gerard Casey (4); John Davies; Robin Gwyndaf; Raymond Garlick (3); Sally Roberts Jones (5); J. P. Ward (5); R. S. Thomas (2); Dannie Abse; Glyn Jones (4); John Tripp (4); A. G. Prys-Jones (6, including a letter to J. P. Ward); Prys Morgan (3); Walford Davies (4); Francis Jones (3); Dora Polk (2); Cary Archard (3); and Alison Bielski.

Deunydd yn ymwneud â chyfieithu gwaith barddonol Menna Elfyn i ystod eang o ieithoedd, gan gynnwys Tsieinëeg, Lithwaneg, Swedeg, Wcreineg, Groeg, Hindi a Slofeneg. Ymysg y cyfieithwyr i'r Saesneg mae Robert Minhinnick, R. S. Thomas, Gwyneth Lewis, Tony Conran, Nigel Jenkins, Joseph Clancy, Elin ap Hywel a Gillian Clarke. Ynghyd â gohebiaeth yn ymdrin â'r gwaith cyfieithu rhwng Menna Elfyn, Nigel Jenkins, Gillian Clarke, Tony Conran a Joseph Clancy.

Llythyrau at Menna Elfyn oddi wrth y bardd a'r offeiriad Anglicanaidd R. S. Thomas.

The collection comprises late nineteenth century lists, abstracts and transcripts of deeds and documents of Rhys family and Dynevor estate interest, 31 Edw. I-1720; newspaper cuttings and letters relating to Charles A. U. Rhys, 8th Baron, 1918-1930; correspondence and papers relating to the publications of the Black Raven Press, a publishing company owned by Richard Rhys, 9th Lord Dynevor, 1965-1985; and typescript scripts of productions by the Richard Rhys production company, also owned by Lord Dynevor, 1961-1982. These include works by the following playwrights: Gerald Hanley, James Hanley, Gwyn Thomas and R. S. Thomas.

Letters to Sam Adams from John Ormond (4) concerning personal matters, together with copies of two poems by Ormond, and a copy of a BBC transcript of his interview with R.S. Thomas, with a manuscript review of the broadcast interview in the hand of Adams.

Copi o draethawd ymchwil 'Gororau'r Iaith: R. S. Thomas a'r Traddodiad Llenyddol Cymraeg' a gyflwynwyd gan Dr Jason Walford Davies ar gyfer gradd Ph.D. (Bangor, 2002) ac a gyflwynwyd am Wobr Ymchwil Celtaidd Legonna, 2003.

Printouts of web pages, 2007, of an article in Swedish on R. S. Thomas published in Dagens Nyheter, Swedish daily newspaper.

Over a hundred and fifty letters, 1961-88 in English, Welsh and French, from various correspondents (surnames Jones-W). The letters, some of which include fair copies of published poems, are chiefly concerned with contemporary writing in Wales in both English and Welsh and with the recipient's work as editor of a number of volumes in this field. The correspondents include Glyn Jones (36, and three poems) 1967-86, Gwyn Jones (6) 1967-87, Saunders Lewis (1) 1974, Roland Mathias (17) 1961-86, Leslie Norris (32, and one poem) 1967-86, Eigra Lewis Roberts (2) 1970-3, R. S. Thomas (1) 1975, John Tripp (8) 1968-78, Harri Webb (14) 1967-79, and Kyffin Williams (8) 1970-1.

Papers of Raymond Garlick, 1944-2005, comprising poetry, 1951-1999; letters, 1944-2003, from Elwyn Davies, Jonah Jones, Brenda Chamberlain, Cledwyn Hughes, A. G. Prys-Jones and others; and diaries and travel journals, 1950, 1956-1957, 1987-1998, 2000-2001. The diaries contain frequent references to his family, including his children Iestyn and Angharad, and to friends such as John Cowper Powys, Jon Dressel, R. S. Thomas and Roland Mathias.

Twenty-one letters and cards, July 1999-June 2001, from Raymond Garlick to Dr Jacques Wirz (ff. 1-3, 5-6 verso, 8-27 verso), together with twenty-five corresponding letters and a card, August 1999-June 2001, from Dr Wirz (ff. 28-75 verso).
The letters contain references to John Cowper Powys (ff. 10, 48-51 passim), R. S. Thomas (ff. 15, 21-23 passim, 25 verso, 62 verso), Brenda Chamberlain (ff. 14-15) and Roland Mathias (f. 18). Also included is a photocopy, [?2001], of a letter from Garlick to Daisy [Reck], dated 2 December 1999 (f. 7), three limericks by Garlick (f. 9) and translations into English by Wirz of excerpts from Peter Sager's German language book, Wales (Cologne, 1985) (ff. 33-44); a letter fragment (f. 4) is part of a letter, dated 21 September 1997, now NLW MS 23784D, f. 3.

Papers accumulated by Peter Davis, Kite Recorder for Wales, 1968-1999, secretary of the Red Kite Committee in Wales, 1968-1999, and trustee of the Welsh Kite Trust, 1996-2012, including earlier material from various sources.