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Press cuttings, photocopies of articles, booklets, leaflets and notes accumulated by Gwyneth Lewis during her research for Two in a Boat, all relating to nautical and maritime matters except for some material from the John F. Kennedy Space Center, and arranged by her into folders labelled 'Ports', 'Piracy', 'Cardiff', 'Boats + ships', 'Shipwrecks + difficulties' and 'Cruising'.

Manuscript notes and typescript drafts with manuscript annotations compiled by Gwyneth Lewis during the composition of 'The Meat Tree', a futuristic re-telling of the fourth branch of the Mabinogi, together with related material including correspondence (with writers, academics and publishers), copies of articles, press cuttings and photographs.

Manuscript drafts, and typescript drafts with manuscript annotations, of two plays by Gwyneth Lewis forming 'a new version of the Clytemnestra story', comprising ‘The Slaughterhouse : Play 1 of 2' (originally entitled ‘The Kill Floor’) and 'Deathbed : Play 2', inspired by the character of Clytemnestra in Aeschylus's Oresteia, together with manuscript notes.

Papers relating to Gwyneth Lewis’s composition of the librettos ‘Redflight Barcud’ and ‘Dolffin’ as part of an operatic trilogy entitled ‘Land, Sea, Sky’ that was performed by Welsh National Opera and primary school children with the intention of engaging children with environmental issues, comprising: a publisher’s proof of Gwyneth Lewis’s score for ‘Barcud’ (later re-named ‘Redflight Barcud’), with related material including a project prospectus, design notes, event programmes and promotional literature; and material relating to ‘Dolffin’, including event programmes, a leaflet and press cuttings.

Event programmes and cuttings of press reviews (some of them sent to Gwyneth Lewis) relating to The Most Beautiful Man from the Sea, an opera for which Gwyneth Lewis composed the libretto having been inspired by a short story by Gabriel García Márquez, and which was performed by Welsh National Opera and community groups at venues throughout Wales including the Millennium Centre, Cardiff.

Papers accumulated by Gwyneth Lewis at an opera writing workshop that she attended at the Aldeburgh Festival, including a photocopy of the text of the Japanese play 'Sumidagawa', manuscript notes on it by Gwyneth Lewis, correspondence and an information pack.

Papers relating to literary projects undertaken by Gwyneth Lewis other than her major published work, including festivals and workshops, research, translation, media work, posts and honours.

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.

An education pack created by the Cardiff Millennium Centre for use in schools, containing leaflets and other teaching resources (including samples of stone, wood, steel and glass) relating to visual art, literacy and language, numeracy and mathematics, history, geography, design and technology, and science.

Papers relating to BBC radio and television talks, performances and interviews featuring Gwyneth Lewis, including ‘Voyage to Lundy’, ‘Sailing without a boat’, 'Cerddi Cilycwm', ‘The stone that moved’, ‘Poetry Please’ and ‘Great lives - Emily Dickinson’, comprising typescript and manuscript scripts with annotations by Gwyneth Lewis and BBC staff; together with correspondence between Gwyneth Lewis and BBC staff concerning 'Cerddi Cilycwm', ‘The Verb’ and a proposed semi-dramatisation of ‘A Hospital Odyssey’; as well as an award certificate for Gwyneth Lewis’s ‘In search of the Gododdin’ (BBC Wales) from Fèis nam Meadhanan Ceilteach (Celtic Media Festival) in the Hebrides; and notes and press cuttings relating to scripts, recording, broadcasts, accommodation and expenses.

Papers relating to Gwyneth Lewis's work as National Poet for Wales, comprising: typescript drafts of poems composed by her in that capacity including 'Amgueddfa Genedlaethol y Glannau, Abertawe', 'National Waterfront Museum, Swansea', 'Glas', 'Addewid Dydd Cofio'r Holocost / Addewid ar Ddiwrnod Cofio'r Holocost' and 'Holocaust Memorial Day Pledge', with manuscript annotations; manuscript and typescript notes by Gwyneth Lewis on the nature of a national poet and her personal vision for the post, including autobiographical material; a typescript draft of her mid-office report; correspondence between her and Mike Ruddock, coach of the Welsh rugby team, concerning her poem 'Reply to the Haka'; typescripts of poems by Edwin Morgan about the Scottish Parliament and by Dennis Lewis and Meirion Jordan about Gwyneth Lewis herself; a letter and poem sent by a child to Gwyneth Lewis as national poet; press cuttings relating to Gwyneth Lewis's work as national poet and to the National Assembly for Wales; and an offprint of a review by her in Taliesin of the poetry of Menna Elfyn.

Papers relating to publications by Gwyneth Lewis and her reviews of the published work of other poets, including: a copy of a publication agreement between her and Harvard Review concerning her poem ‘Sunken Garden’; a letter to her from literary agents concerning the agreement between her and Poetry Wales Press relating to The Meat Tree; correspondence between Gwyneth Lewis, agents and the editor concerning the publication of an Italian anthology of her work; a copy of her poem ‘Pluck’, commissioned by the Prince of Wales; copies of a typescript draft foreword by Gwyneth Lewis, with manuscript annotations and related notes, for Doctor Marigold's prescriptions, an edition of the work of Charles Dickens; a photocopy of PN Review proofs of ‘Links: A knot of poems’ by Gwyneth Lewis; a copy of PN Review with poems from Sparrow Tree; offprints of review articles from Taliesin by Gwyneth Lewis and T. James Jones relating to the poetry of Menna Elfyn; and a review copy of Sound Archive by Nerys Williams with manuscript notes by Gwyneth Lewis.

Papers relating to Gwyneth Lewis’s work as a translator, including: manuscript notes by her for a talk on translation between Welsh and English at a conference at Jesus College, Oxford, with an associated event programme; a letter to her from Martin Orwin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, concerning the translation of poetry from Somali into English, with copies of examples; printed examples of poetry translated from English into German; and related notes, offprints and photocopies of articles.

Notes by Gwyneth Lewis relating to her work on health, illness, medicine and space science, together with a printout of email correspondence between her and Gillie Bolton concerning the metaphysics of healing, and related leaflets, internet printouts, newsletters, press cuttings and postcards.

Papers relating to applications by Gwyneth Lewis for academic fellowships, including: her application form for a National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) fellowship, together with a copy of her funding contract, typescripts with manuscript annotations of her annual reports as a fellow, and correspondence and other documentation concerning the fellowship; a typescript draft of her application for the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, with manuscript annotations, together with correspondence and other information about the application; a letter to her from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, concerning the start of her fellowship there; notes by her relating to her curriculum vitae and job applications, including printouts with manuscript annotations of full drafts of ‘Sparrow Tree’; material relating to applications for a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship, and to the advertisement of the post of Senior Lecturership in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia School of Literature and Creative Writing; and an agenda and minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Royal Society of Literature.

Papers relating to Gwyneth Lewis’s D.Phil. entitled ‘Eighteenth-century literary forgeries with special reference to the work of Iolo Morganwg’ (submitted to the University of Oxford), comprising manuscript and photocopied drafts, revisions, bibliographic notes, abstracts, essays and extensive notes by her on primary and secondary sources and academic debates relating to literary figures including Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg'), Thomas Chatterton, William Henry Ireland, James Macpherson, Thomas Percy and others, with photocopies of related articles and bibliographies, associated press cuttings, an abstract and part of an annotated typescript draft of a Ph.D. thesis by Paul Timothy Baines entitled 'Authenticity and forgery in eighteenth-century Britain' (submitted to the University of Bristol), a letter from Gwyneth Lewis's supervisor concerning the examiners’ report on her thesis, letters from academics concerning her research, manuscript essays on related topics and a typescript dissertation on George Eliot written by Gwyneth Lewis at Cambridge for her first degree in English literature, Oxford and Cambridge University literature concerning the submission of theses, and library letters and forms concerning reading rooms and Gwyneth Lewis's book loans.

A certificate from Cardiff University recording the election of Gwyneth Lewis to an Honorary Fellowship.

Correspondence between Gwyneth Lewis and her friends, literary associates and family (notably her aunt Megan, her cousins, and the extended Tanner family in the USA), covering personal, artistic, academic and other aspects of her life, together with related material.

Letters to Gwyneth Lewis from R.S. Thomas and his wife, Betty, concerning developments in their respective literary and personal lives, as well as wider literary matters; also included are letters relating to an interview with R.S. Thomas conducted by Gwyneth Lewis and Peter Robinson at Jesus College, Oxford, together with two typescript copies, one with manuscript amendments, of the interview in which he discusses his work and his views on poetry and its relationship with prose, religion and language.

Letters and cards to Gwyneth Lewis from friends, family, agents, writers and publishers concerning personal, social, family, domestic and literary matters including her career and published work, together with related photographs and a card written by her to Meic Stephens concerning a review by him of her work.