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Papers of Lord Elwyn-Jones, 1921-1989, including correspondence, 1958-1989; material for speeches, 1953-1987; papers relating to the Nuremberg War Trials, 1944-1989; family and personal papers, 1921-1990; papers relating to foreign affairs and foreign visits, 1933-1938; legalc cases, [c. 1940]-1989; subject files, 1927-1989; memoirs, 1975-1984; printed and circular material, 1957-1989; Walter Idris Jones papers, 1930-1979; and office diaries, 1977-1979.

'Some people', being extracts from F. Elwyn Jones's condolence letters, 1989-1990, gathered under periods from his life. Also notes and extracts, 2016-2017, from papers, 1937-1989, at the Flintshire Record Office and NLW Welsh Political Archive.

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.

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

Letters of condolence on the deaths of Lord Elwyn-Jones, 1989, and Lady Polly, 1990. Also papers relating to his funeral at the Grays Inn Chapel, and memorial services in Westminster Abbey and Llanelli, 1989, and the unveiling of a memorial plaque in Brighton, 1992.

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).

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.

Boxes 26-30 are not in strict chronological order due to the quantity of the material and the lack of dating evidence.

A bound photocopy of the Sunday Times and Sunday Special for 24 Oct. 1909 (Lord Elwyn-Jones's birth day). Enclosed loose, a card (18"x12") for Lord Elwyn-Jones's eightieth birthday, comprising the signatures of the Labour peers (96 names).

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.

Annotated draft typescript of Lord Elwyn-Jones, 'Human rights - the race dimension' (U.C. Swansea Eileen Illtyd David lecture, 1983), and a photocopy of the published booklet, 1984.

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.