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Originals and photocopies of letters, including between F. Elwyn Jones and Justice Jackson and Justice Frankfurter, Washington, USA, 1953-1955 (photocopies), and from Charles Njonjo of Niarobi, Kenya, March 1958, from Mbiyu Koinange relating to the transfer of his father, [Koinange wa Mbiyu], from Marsabit prison to Kabernet hospital in Kenya, April 1958, and from Tony Benn (the derivation of 'Elwyn'), 1980.

Where possible the files have been kept in their original order.

Undated handwritten notes, some possibly for speeches, including 'Dangers of mass migration' (on House of Commons letterhead), 'Care for it' [including re. the Hague Conventions, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the limits of force, and the Security Council] (on House of Commons letterhead), 'Complaints of Police behaviour', 1966, 'Discrimination' (on House of Lords letterhead), notes on Doenitz, Schirach and Goering (on House of Lords letterhead).

Notebook with rough notes on post-war German affairs, including denazification, 'Why socialise German industry' and 'I G Farben'.

Letters from Christopher M. Laico, archivist at Columbia University, New York, USA, 2004, relating to the donation of Elwyn Jones papers relating to Telford Taylor and the later Nuremberg indictments, and photocopies of correspondence between Elwyn Jones and Telford Taylor, 1947-1981, among the Telford Taylor Papers at Columbia, and related papers.

Elwyn Jones's diary of a trip from East Berlin (4 April) to Moscow (4-6) and Peking (8-14) at the invitation of "the Chinese Association of Political Sciences & Law to study their administration of justice & I visited prisons, attended several trials, & met [--] leading judges lawyers & law makers of China." After the diary are pages of notes, including on religion in Shanghai, Beijing divorce, and village divorce at Nann Yuen [=Nanyuan?] village court outside Beijing.

Pocket note book of notes and diary entries (10-28 April) made as a delegate on a trip to China to study the administration of justice. At the rear of the volume is a pressed flower.

Elwyn Jones general election pamphlets for West Ham South, 1966, Newnham, 1970 and Feb. 1974 (three copies); programme for the Côr Meibion Llanelli tour of Canada, 1980; programme for Foyles Bookshop luncheon in honour of Dame Veronica Wedgewood, 1986.

Original Royal Navy folder containing the remains of a welcome pack for the UK delegation for talks between Harold Wilson and Ian Smith on HMS Fearless over the future of Rhodesia. Elwyn Jones attended as UK Attorney General.

Letter from D. H. O. Owen to Elwyn-Jones, 1982, enclosing a typescript list of Elwyn-Jones's speeches, April 1974-Dec. 1978, which he gave whilst he was Lord Chancellor; a list of file titles relating to invitations to Elwyn-Jones to make overseas visits and attend various functions, 1974-1979, and a list of some of Elwyn-Jones's engagements between May 1977 and May 1979.

Papers relating to the loan of an original copy of Magna Carta to the US Congress to mark the bicentennial of the USA, June 1976, and relating to the conferring on Lord Elwyn-Jones of an honorary Doctor of Law degree by Columbia University, Aug. 1976.