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Personal letters, 1939-2001, relating mainly to literary matters, including some from editors of periodicals expressing their views on his poems and letters he received during his time serving with the RAF in Palestine; together with letters written by Peter Hellings to his wife Manon and testimonials.

Includes letters, 1939-1956, from Raymond Garlick (2), Robert Herring, editor of Life and Letters to-day (15), Albert Levine (36), Jackson Mathews (2), Keidrych Rhys (5), Stephen Spender (1), Henry Treece (2), and Vernon Watkins (11), together with a letter written by Peter Hellings while in the Middle East, 1943, relating to his travels.

Letters, 1981-1999, written to Peter Hellings and afterwards to his wife Manon, including letters from Raymond Garlick (1), Johnny Morris (1), Meic Stephens (4), Ned Thomas (1) and Barry Took (1).

Letters, 1941-2001. Among the correspondents are Elwyn Evans, Jackson Mathews, Rush Rhys (3), Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, Glyn Jones, Brian [Lewis] (3), Raymond Garlick, Gwyn Jones, Nicole Crossley-Holland, Nigel Jenkins; together with letters received by Manon Hellings in the years after her husband's death. Also included is a postcard sent by Peter Hellings to his mother in 1946 from Jerusalem.

Letters, [1949]-[1954], written by Peter Hellings to his wife including some written while she was staying with her family in France.

Testimonial letters and letters relating to his teaching appointments and career, 1950-1961, together with his curriculum vitae, [1957].

Includes papers, 1945-[2000], relating to his volumes of poetry Swansea Sketchbook (Pontefract, 1983), and the publishing and launch of A Form of Words (Pontefract, 1995), and also to his poems published in periodicals.

Includes photocopies of a series of poems 'Enemies of forgetting' by Peter Hellings which appeared in Welsh Review, Winter 1948; a copy of Music calling, Christmas magazine, January 1945, containing his poem 'Frozen voices', together with other poems including 'The chemistry of oblivion. Epitaph for an unknown poet', 1981, and 'In Sarajevo', 1993. The file also includes a photocopy of an account of the funeral of his father Lieutenant Frank Hellings, who died while Peter Hellings was still a pupil at the Grammar School, [1930s].

Obituary by Eurwen and Hugh Price, [1994]; programme of the tribute to Peter Hellings, 20 April 1995, as part of the Dylan Thomas Society of Great Britain's programme for 1995; invitation to the launch at Sutton Coldfield, 28 September 2005, and at the Swansea Arts Workshop Gallery, Swansea, 10 November 1995, with programme, together with notes for Manon Hellings's speech about his 'early days'; and a letter from Brian Lewis, 1999, relating to the preparation of the 'collected poems' for publishing with 'some general observations' [Selected Poems Pete Hellings [2001]].

Photocopies of his poems published in periodicals: 'Display', Wales, October 1939; 'The Exiles (Rapsody on a Theme of Heine)', Orientations, August 1943; 'The New Canterbury Tale. Toll and Triumph', Life and Letters To-day, April 1944; 'Ceremonies of Bravery', Life and Letters To-day, January 1946; 'Firwework Music', Life and Letters, November 1946; 'Prometheus. God of the Atom', Life and Letters, June 1949; 'Mad without tears', The Welsh Review, Autumn 1947; and 'Five landscapes', The Welsh Review, Summer 1948; together with 'Ballad of Hunt's Bay' by Vernon Watkins, Life and Letters, April 1945. Also included are photocopies of front covers of other periodicals and publications and lists of contents, 1940-1951, which featured poems by Peter Hellings.

Includes photocopies of his first volume of poems entitled Firework Music published in 1950; together with epigrams, 1987; 'The Sirens (Hungerford, August 1987)' in typescript form; poems in manuscript form and a talk by him on 'Poetry aloud', [1950x1994].

Includes photocopies of his editorials and poems published in Dawn, 1947-1949; typescript copy, 1953, of 'Pyramid fires' published in Rann, no. 19, April 1953; together with memories of time spent in Palestine, 1941-1945, by an unknown person, [1990s]; and a list of poems by Peter Hellings drawn up by Hugh Price, [1990s].

A notebook relating to the sales and gifts of A Swansea Sketchbook published in 1983; together with related letters and a letter, 1996, from Meic Stephens suggesting an edition of Peter Hellings's collected poems. Also included are photocopies of critical essays, 1984, by students written on the poem 'A Light Grey Day. Swansea Crematorium, Morriston', originally published in A Swansea Sketchbook.

Includes papers relating to the publication of A Form of Words by Pontefract Press in 1995 and a list of photographs to be used; his curriculum vitae; together with a copy, 1996, of Brian Lewis, The waters of Birmingham which was published in 1997 by his publishing company Pontefract Press and a linked poem 'Jude and Holofernes', [1991], by him. Brian Lewis was introduced to poetry by his teacher Peter Hellings at the James Watt Technical School in Smethwick.

Handwritten drafts of some of the poems entitled 'A Form of Words. Reflections in Retreat' written after he retired from teaching in 1980 and typescript versions of these. The title 'Educational Times' was later given to the collection.

Draft versions of his poems, [1980]-[1993], including 'A Form of Words', 1980.

Drafts of the poems included in 'Round Here. Voices from Dyfed', 1987-1988, and a copy of the completed poems [issued privately as a Christmas gift to friends and fellow writers] published in his A Form of Words in 1995.

Includes lists of the invitees to book launches in Swansea and Birmingham and books to be given for reviews, [1994]-[1995], and [Manon Hellings's] reminiscences of her husband.

Translations, 1984, by Peter and Madeline (Manon) Hellings of poems by the French poet François Villon entitled 'Ballades', 1984, and 'Versions of Villon', 1988; typescript and manuscript drafts of the translations, with the French text of ballads, notes by Manon Hellings and suggestions by Nicole Crossley-Holland; 'The Legacy' by Villon, 1984; and 'Sonnets from Les Fleurs du Mal' by Charles Baudelaire.