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The Dying Gaul and other writings was published by Faber and Faber in 1978, edited with an introduction by Harman Grisewood. It is a sequel to the earlier collection Epoch and Artist also edited by him. It contains fifteen prose pieces dating from the 1930s and early 1940s as well as the 1970s, including a number of pieces which appeared in magazines or newspapers or had been given as radio talks.
The group contains manuscript and typescript drafts of ten of the prose pieces, with drafts of the introduction by Harman Grisewood, and proofs and setting copies. The group does not contain drafts of 'On the difficulties of one writer of Welsh affinity whose language is English', 'Notes of the 1930s', 'An aspect of the art of England', 'The Roland epic and ourselves' or 'A Christmas message'. The material is mostly from Group C.

The file comprises a fragment of the script of 'The Fall of Troy', a version for radio by René Hague based on book 2 of the Aeneid.

The series comprises twelve files of manuscript and typescript drafts of the poem 'The Fatigue' and its introduction, proofs, and scripts for a broadcast reading.
'The Fatigue' was privately printed by friends for David Jones' 70th birthday, on 1 November 1965. David Jones has dated the introduction to the poem August 18th 1965 on page 26. The BBC Third Programme (produced by Douglas Cleverdon) recorded David Jones reading this poem in March 1965. David Jones notes in these files that the poem was 'read on June 3rd 1964 for television' and 'read on Oct. 15 1964 for Brit[ish] Council for Harvard' [library of recordings]. It appears that this 'fragment' was written, or adapted from an earlier work, by David Jones following a request for material to be recorded.

The file comprises two manuscript drafts of a review published in the Dublin Review, October 1952, of 'The Heritage of Early Britian', with a typescript draft and proofs corrected by David Jones.

The series comprises six files of manuscript drafts of the poem, scripts of a BBC recording in 1958, and drafts of an introduction to a recording for disc c. 1963.

The series comprises six files of manuscript and typescript drafts of various versions of the 'Mass' poem, with related correspondence.

The file comprises the text of 'The Tribune's Visitation' published by The Listener following a broadcast of the poem, May 22 1958, with some words in David Jones's hand in the second page.

The file comprises a typescript essay by H. W. J. Edwards entitled 'The Mystery of Lloegr'.

The file comprises an incomplete typescript text (paginated 10-19 and 22, 26) of 'the Myth of Arthur' (see Epoch and Artist, pp. 212-59), corrected and altered by David Jones. There are also two manuscript drafts, apparently of an insertion in the text of the missing p. 20 of this typescript.

The file comprises an incomplete typescript draft of the last section of the essay 'The Myth of Arthur' corrected by David Jones. The typescript seems to be corrected for Epoch and Artist from the text written in 1940-1941 for For Hillaire Belloc which was published by Sheed and Ward in 1942.

The series comprises a complete manuscript draft of 'The Narrows'.
'The Narrows' was first published in the Anglo-Welsh Review, vol. 22, no. 50 (Autumn 1973) pp. 8-12, and in Agenda, Autumn-Winter 1973-1974. It was later published as a pamphlet with an introduction by Roland Mathias by the Interim Press in 1981.

The series comprises manuscript drafts of 'The Old Quarry', Part 1, and typescript drafts of Parts 1 and 2.
Section III of The Roman Quarry consists of 'The Old Quarry Part One', 'The Agent', and 'The Old Quarry Part Two'. 'The Old Quarry' follows on from 'The Grail Mass'. The second half of the Old Quarry is mentioned in letters in 1940 and 1962 to Harman Grisewood.

The file comprises a typescript article entitled 'The Painted Inscriptions of David Jones'. This article, by Nicolette Gray, was published under the title 'David Jones and the Art of Lettering' in the David Jones Special Issue of Agenda, vol. 5, nos 1-3 (Spring-Summer 1967), pp. 146-52.

The group contains manuscript and typescript drafts of most of the poems which appear in the volume with also some material which was unused.
The Roman Quarry and other sequences was edited by Harman Grisewood and René Hague, and first published by Agenda Editions in 1981. (See the foreword and introduction for information on how the material was selected from the archive for publication in this volume.) The volume is made up of some unpublished poetry, but also poetry which may have been part of The Anathemata (1952), The Sleeping Lord (1974), The Kensington Mass (1975) or The Narrows (1981). Most of the papers are from Group B.

The series comprises a manuscript draft and a typescript draft of 'The Roman Quarry'.

The file comprises a typescript article by E. G. R. Taylor entitled 'The Sailor in the Middle Ages'.

The series comprises three manuscript drafts of the poem.

The file comprises copies of The Tablet, 1948-1962, (and one of The Listener, 1956) found amongst David Jones's papers.

The file comprises a script of a commissioned Third Programme talk by Saunders Lewis entitled 'The Tradition of Taliesin', presented to David Jones by the author, 5 July 1965.

The series comprises six files of manuscript drafts of the poem and its introduction, proofs, and a copy of The Listener, 1958.