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Original file of carbon copies and photocopies of typescript poems by Tony Curtis, the few dated items being 1969-1971. Also 'Pierce (a play for television)' and three articles or short stories. Also a few poems by Christopher Morgan and Matt Simpson, also undated, a postcard from Ian [Robinson] and a Brynmill Press book catalogue, 1983.

Letters and postcards, mainly between Christopher Morgan and Ian Robinson of the Brynmill Press, Morgan's publisher, and sometime senior lecturer in the English Department, University College of Swansea.

Newspaper cuttings of articles by or relating to D. Rees Williams, mainly undated.

The contents of a ring-binder (discarded) entitled 'Christopher Morgan, Welsh poet, 1944-2014, autobiographical', arranged and annotated by Imelda Morgan his sister, containing school and university certificates, CVs, autobiographical and family articles, poems, letters

Original file of letters from David to his parents, including on headed notepaper from the Adelphi Hotel, London (Aug.), P & O. S. N. Co., S. S. (Sept.-Oct), and Runnymede Hotel, Penang (Oct.), and thereafter with the forwarding address c/o Messrs Adams & Allen, Beach Street, Penang S. S. [=Straits Settlements].

Scrapbook of work compiled by pupils of Plasmarl junior school, 8-18 June 1971.

Miscellaneous papers, including letters of administration of Tabitha Hopkins of Shop Farm, St Brides Major, co. Glam., d. 28 April 1930, granted to David Rees Williams as attorney of Edward Hopkins, now in the state of Alberta, Canada, brother of the intestate, 1930; a memorandum entitled 'Road signs & markings', listing [gipsy?] signs including 'A kind lady lives here', 'Tell the sob stuff', 'Beware of the dog' and 'Churchy', written on a page of Naval Message paper (form S.1320c, rev. Oct. 1935); an autograph poem, 'An ode to Miss Cxxx Mxxxxx' about the working day of Volunteer Skinner, signed and dated by David Rees Williams, Sept. 1939; a letter (in French) from Paul [Denreulenacry?], Civil Affairs Belgium, 41 Eaton Square, London, to 'Mon Major & cher Professeur', [1940x1946?]; and a signed poem (in French) 'Au Colonel Williams et Madame, ode de la France', 1946.

'Playground and street games record cards', mainly versions of tag / touch, written by boys in Forms 1M and 1R of Neath grammar school, being homework set by Christipher Morgan, March 1971, and a copy of 'Sawdsheet Three', a cyclostyled publication of the Department of English, University College, Swansea, Easter 1973, containing research into the lore and language of Monmouthshire schoolchildren, and an addition to the checklist of dialect words in co's Brec., Glam., Mon. and Rad.

'Record of the David family and of the families with which it is intermarried' (typescript, 27 pp., signed David Rees Williams, Garth Celyn, Bridgend, 1930); a tracing of the arms of Richard David, bishop of St Davids, copied from the 16th cent. Cardiff Library Heraldic MS 34, n.d.; a heraldic achievement on tracing paper, the arms including three [boars' or dogs'?] heads on a bend, the crest includes a collared dove holding a twig, and the motto is 'Ffyddlon hyd angau' ('Faithful to death'), n.d.; and drawings of two achievements (named 'David' and 'David/Gamage') and two shields of arms on tracing paper, n.d. Also a letter from George Frederick Forsdike, lord mayor of Cardiff, to Miss Connie Wills on behalf of the Save the Children Fund, 1920; a prescription for Mrs J. Wills, 1926; correspondence relating to the title and motto of Baron Ogmore of Bridgend, including with the College of Arms, Bridgend UDC and Ogmore & Garw UDC, June-Sept. 1950; with Burke's Peerage, Jan. 1959; and with the College of Arms relating to registering his descendants with the college, Nov. 1972-March 1973. Also a typescript CV of Lord Ogmore, [c. Aug. 1951]. At the rear of the 'Record of the David family ...' is a copy of the Newcastle petition to Parliament (no. 14); several of the signatories have the first name or the family name/patronymic 'David'.

Original file of letters, mainly from David, c/o Messrs Adams & Allen, Beach Street, Penang S. S., to his parents.

Copies of 'Castile', vol. 1, no's 2-3, undated, including poems by Christopher Morgan. 'Castile' was edited by Richard Thomas, and stated to be the successor to 'The New Clynian', which had been established in the beginning of the 1960s. 'Castile' was probably a Swansea University student / English Department publication, with contributions from the students of Neuadd Gilbertson, Neuadd Martin and Beck Hall.

File contains minutes, agendas, reports and correspondence from Wales Council of the Ecology Party (later Green Party) in 1984.

File comprises copies of speeches on the law in Wales and other jurisdictions in comparison to Wales. Some of the speeches were delivered at the Legal Wales conference in 2009. Speakers include the Hon Sir Gary Hickinbottom and Sir Malcolm Pill.

File comprises posters, election addresses and a thank you leaflet distributed by Gwynfor Evans' campaign during the Carmarthen by-election in 1966.

File contains drafts of Cymru Goch's constitution including proposed amendments.

School exercise books, mainly St Illtyd's College, Cardiff, including English, French, Spanish, algebra, chemistry, geometry, history, mathematics, two manuscript music books (Maryfield suite, opus 1, and Sinfonietta in G minor, opus 2), and his pupil's report book and loose reports, 1955-1961, and notebooks of juvenalia.

Rent roll of the rents due at Lady Day 1724 and chief rents due at Michaelmas 1723 and 1724 for the manor of Traean, including gafaelion Dudleston, Pentrecoed, Ifton, Rhyn, Weston, Wigginton, Bron-y-garth, Trehowell, Weston Rhyn and Morton, [p's Ellesmere, Oswestry and St Martin's, co. Shrop.]. At the back of the volume are several account entries, 1724-1725.

A homemade volume of one gathering (12 ff.) with a cover made from a mutilated deed, apparently comprising a demise between Robert Griffiths of [--] and Thomas Jervis of Pool, co. Mont., ironmonger, for 99 years of an unspecified property, reciting a lease dated 11 June [1712], and a lease between William, Lord Powis, and Robert [--], co. Mont, tanner, 1699.

Includes a photograph of a man [William Tudor?] working on a model building made from biros, with 'Odhams Press' and 'Womans Realm' copyright stamps on the reverse.

File contains various publications related to socialsm in Wales including a publication entitles "Cymru Goch" giving the background and values of Cymru Goch; Red Banner Red Dragon by Dai Francis; Get off our Backs! Wales a Colony; S. Africa and Wales - The Common Struggle; What's So Great About Britain? by Tim Richards; Taflu'r Baich o'n Cefnau Cymru'n Golonu!; Llais y Werin; James Connolly Sosialydd a Gweriniaethwr; Turning to London Labour's Attitude to Wales 1989-1956 by Robert Griffiths; and John Maclean Arwr yr Alban.

File comprises scripts fr Patrick Hanna's contributions to a BBC Radio 4 programme entitled 'In Britain Now', where journalists from the 'regions' of the UK spoke on various topics . The topics covered by Patrick Hannan from Wales included devolution, Gwynfor Evans, the coal industry, miners' strikes, the clean up after coal, Plaid Cymru, Wales as a nation, the European Economic Community (EEC) and industrial illnesses notably pneumoconiosis. The file also contains typed transcripts of the programme which include contributions from correspondents in other parts of the UK.