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The file comprises manuscript drafts of five letters from David Jones to Raymond Garlick, December 1952-June 1955, relating to Dock Leaves, and The Anathemata, with seven unsent addressed envelopes.

The file comprises manuscript drafts of letters from David Jones to Arthur Giardelli, Captian St. Luke, Ethel Watts, editor of The Times and others.

The file comprises manuscript drafts of letters to Tony Stoneburner. There appears to be one complete draft letter and incomplete drafts of six others, one of which is dated 10 November 1964 and another 17 February 1966. Amongst the subjects discussed in these drafts are the vernacularization of the Mass, Welsh history, The Anathemata and English translations of the Bible.

The file comprises four manuscript drafts (incomplete) of a letter to Mr Houghton-Brown, one of which is dated 26 June 1965. David Jones refers to his signing a petition sent by Mr Houghton-Brown 'some months back' and goes on to express his bewilderment at the rapidity with which liturgical changes have been accepted and made obligatory.

The file comprises manuscript drafts of letters from David Jones, many of which concern his published works. The addressees, which include Peter Orr and Sister Mary Ursula, are listed on the wrapper. There are drafts of letters concerning In Parenthesis, The Anathemata, Epoch and Artist and the 'fragments' published in The Sleeping Lord and other fragments. Other subjects include lettering for the cover of the Rutgers edition of Poetry and Prayer by Father Thomas Noon; biographical details (principally concerning the period 1921-1934); pictures by David Jones referred to in a letter from a Mr Witaker; Gwyn Williams's translations of Welsh poetry; Owen Glendower by J. C. Powys; together with an essay by Jeremy Hooker on The Anathemata and an article by him in the Winter 1970 number (vol. 6, no. 3) of Poetry Wales (there are drafts of four letters to Jeremy Hooker, one dated 20 October 1970) and suggestions that David Jones contribute an article to New Blackfriars on the general attitude implicit in his work and explicit in his occasional essays, and another to Encounter about Eric Gill (1966).

The file comprises manuscript drafts of letters from David Jones to friends. The addressees have in most cases been identified by Harman Grisewood and are listed on the wrapper. They include Stella Wright, Colin Hardie, Mr Plumtre, Peter Levi, Herbert Read, Theodore Bailly, Clarissa Eden, Jack Sweeney, Kenneth Clark, Mike Richey, Nancy Sanders, Kathleen Raine, T. S. Eliot and Louis Bonnerot. Amongst the subjects discussed in these letters are The Anathemata (referred to as 'a thing I've been struggling with for some years' in a draft letter to Colin Hardie dated 11 July 1945); Welsh history and the Welsh language (subjects which appear in several of these letters); 'The Fatigue' (1965); an inscription for the ordination of Peter Levi (1964, 1967); 'the general civilizational predicament vis-à-vis 'the arts''; the vernacularization of the Mass ('I've wasted hours & hours & days & days, writing & destroying letters addressed to The Tablet---', 1965); 'my new piece' ('The Sleeping Lord', 1967); Rembrandt (in a draft letter to Lord Clark, 1966); 'The Wall' (1967); Roman roads (1967); his family background and 'The Dream of Private Clitus' (in a draft letter to Louis Bonnerot, n.d.). There is a draft letter of condolence to Valerie Eliot on the death of her husband, T. S. Eliot.

The file comprises a manuscript draft of a letter to a Mr Andrew Mylett thanking him for a copy of Heroes' Twilight (London, 1965) by Bernard Bergonzi (1965), together with numerous drafts of a letter of appreciation to the author.

The file comprises manuscript drafts of letters to friends and acquaintances. The addressees are listed on the wrapper. Amongst the subjects discussed or referred to in these letters are Welsh and early Scottish history, 'The Viae' (1955; see Epoch and Artist, pp. 189-95) and 'The Dream of Private Clitus' (1963).

The file comprises manuscript drafts of letters from David Jones. The addressees are listed on the wrapper. These letters principally concern his financial affairs. There is also a laundry list.

The file comprises manuscript drafts of letters from David Jones, most of which contain biographical information. The addressees are listed on the wrapper. Includes drafts of David Jones's first letter to Colin Hughes, 1969.

The series comprises draft and incomplete letters from David Jones to editors of newspapers, such as The Tablet, The Times, The Listener, and The Catholic Herald relating to history, literature, religion and other topics. The series also includes letters to friends and acquaintances, which are mixed within the same files.

The file comprises manuscript drafts of letters to The Tablet concerning religious art (following an article on the subject by John Rothenstein), 1941, the Roman Catholic church in Wales, 1962, the Welsh language and the Latin language and its liturgical use.

The file comprises manuscript drafts, most of which appear to be of a letter to an unnamed periodical concerning 'the contribution which the Welsh mind and tradition has made to the common tradition of the Island'. One of these drafts is dated 8 September 1948. There are also two drafts of what appear to be part of a letter (to The Tablet?) about the Roman Catholic church in Wales. There is a note by Harman Grisewood on the wrapper concerning 'the top half dozen or so books which played a formative part in forming his outlook.'

The file comprises manuscript drafts of letters to the press. These drafts concern matters as varied as the Duke of Windsor, The Anathemata, the bombing of towns, Christian art, errors in the text of In Parenthesis, 'Welshness in Wales' (see Epoch and Artist, pp. 51-3), the broadcasting of parts of Piers Plowman, the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, Christianity and poetry, proposed development schemes in Wales, the first mention of the stirrup, Stonehenge, Liverpool cathedral, the crucial dilemma affecting the practice of all the arts 'during our present civilizational phase', the early history of the Welsh language, 'Shakespeare and the Jewish Liturgy', the engraved illustrations of the 1860s and the profession of arms. Very few of these drafts comprise complete letters. The earliest of the few dates that occur amongst these drafts is 1942 and the latest 1961.

The file comprises manuscript drafts of a letter (or article) concerning the history of the plastic and graphic arts in Wales, arising from articles on architecture in Wales by Clough Williams-Ellis and Iorwerth C. Peate. There is also a draft of a letter concerning the Tryweryn reservoir scheme and drafts of a writing concerning Coel Hen, a figure who appears in the early Welsh genealogies.

The file comprises manuscript drafts of a letter to The Catholic Herald, August 1941, protesting against the depiction of Hitler in one of the Stations of the Cross in the new Roman Catholic church at Lampeter.

The file comprises manuscript drafts of letters to The Catholic Herald concerning the mutilation of Eric Gill's altarpiece in Westminster cathedral (one undated draft) and the nature of the worship due to crucifixes (drafts of complete letter, 1946).

The file comprises manuscript drafts of obituary letters on the deaths of Dr Charles Burns, 1964, Miss Helen Sutherland, 1966, and Monsignor Duchemin, 1965.

The file comprises manuscript drafts of a letter arising from an article on the Blake bi-centenary by Anthony Bertram in The Tablet.

The file comprises manuscript drafts of a letter to The Listener concerning 'the 'divorce' between 'the arts' and 'life' which necessarily characterizes our mass-civilization.'