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Correspondents include Lady Megan Lloyd George, Robert Graves, Gerald Hayes (6), Barbara Hepworth (2), R. T. and Myfanwy Jenkins (3), David Jones (5), Jack Jones (3), and Dr Thomas Jones (8).

Letters, 1900-1995, of miscellaneous provenance. Correspondents include A. J. Balfour (1) 1916, W. H. Davies (2) 1912-1913, Lyubov (Aimée) F. Dostoevskaya (1, in French) 1924, Owen M. Edwards (4) 1900-1916, David Lloyd George (4) 1911-1919, Megan Lloyd George (3) 1948-1951, Richard Hughes (6) 1923-1935, Augustus John (7) [1918]-1950, Daniel Jones (2) 1972-1981, David Jones (1) 1966 (discussing some of his paintings), Jack Jones (2) 1938-1939, Saunders Lewis (5) 1951-1965, Wallis Simpson, later Duchess of Windsor (1) 1937, Edward Thomas (1) 1901, and Ralph Vaughan Williams (1) [1940].

Miscellaneous papers, 1981-96, belonging to Professor David Blamires, author of David Jones: Artist and Writer (1971), who established the David Jones Society in 1975. The collection includes exhibition notes, research papers, conference programmes, postcards, and correspondence. A separate file within the box contains a set of David Jones Society Newsletters, nos.1-38 (1976-84).

Forty-eight letters, 1934-1980, to John Petts from various correspondents including David Jones (7) 1954-1956, Professor Gwyn Jones (5, together with a draft introduction for a projected but apparently unpublished volume entitled 'Woodcuts of Wales'), 1947-1949, Alun Lewis (15) [1940]-1943, and Gwyn Williams, Trefenter (2) 1949-1951; also included is one letter, 1942, to Alun Lewis from Huw Menai, enclosing three autograph poems.

Over one hundred and twenty letters, 1928-80 (correspondents A-M), to Ceri and Frances Richards, many of them concerned with their work as artists, together with one letter, 1985, to the artists' daughters. The correspondents include Francis Bacon (1) [1940s], Benjamin Britten (1) 1957, R. A. Butler (2) 1967, Sir Kenneth Clark (1) 1942, Arthur Giardelli (1) 1970, Ivon Hitchens (3) 1957-66, Imogen Holst (3) 1966-70, Augustus John (2) 1960, David Jones (4) 1961-70, and Henry Moore (15) 1942-62.

Some ninety-five letters, 1955-82, to Keidrych Rhys from various correspondents (surnames I-L), mainly in his capacity as editor of Wales and Welsh correspondent of The People, together with poems, short stories and essays submitted to him for publication. The correspondents and contributors include Augustus John (2) 1959, A. G. Prys-Jones (3, with three poems and an article) 1959, David Jones (1) 1959, Elisabeth Inglis-Jones (2) 1955-7, Glyn Jones (7) 1957-82, and Mervyn Levy (5) 1957-8.

Includes letters from Mike Jenkins (14), Nigel Jenkins (15), Alun R. Jones (8), A. G. Prys-Jones (88), Bobi Jones, D. Gwenallt Jones, David Jones (2), Dedwydd Jones (15), Don Dale-Jones (7), E. H. Jones (2), Emrys Maldwyn Jones (6), Gwyn Jones (92; with an additional note amongst the letters of Alice Jones), Harri Pritchard Jones (4), Jack Jones (4), Jonah Jones, Phyllis M. Jones (2), Ray Howard-Jones (4), Sally Roberts Jones (7), T. Gwynn Jones, and William Glynne-Jones (27).

Notebook containing autograph drafts, September 1966, of a series of eight lectures entitled 'Modern Poetry Lectures', apparently given by Vernon Watkins at the University College of Swansea.
The lecture notes contain references to various poets, in particular T. S. Eliot (ff. 2-16 passim), W. B. Yeats (ff. 3-31 passim), D. H. Lawrence (ff. 17-24), Wilfred Owen (ff. 24, 26-31) and David Jones (ff. 24-28). Excerpts from the notes were published in Poetry Wales, 12.4 (Spring 1977), 52-55.

Papurau yn ymwneud â Saunders Lewis a David Jones a gasglwyd ac a ysgrifennwyd gan Emyr Humphreys, yn cynnwys teipysgrifau o'r traethodau 'A Necessary Figure' ac 'Enaid Digimar' (cyhoeddwyd yn Y Faner, 1985), drafft llawysgrif o draethawd yn ymwneud â'r gwaith' Excelsior' gan Saunders Lewis (heb ei ddyddio), a phamffledi a thoriadau pellach yn ymwneud â Saunders Lewis, yn cynnwys copi o deyrnged gan Thomas Parry (heb ddyddiad), teyrnged gan Theatr Ymylon ([1973]), toriad o'r Radio Times ( 1987), a phamffled 'Y Ddrama yn Ewrop' (gyda rhagair gan Emyr Humphreys); ynghyd â nodiadau teipysgrif a llawysgrif gyda’r teitl 'Hours by the Window: an artist in Philistia' (heb ddyddiad), nodiadau teipysgrif yn ymwneud â rhaglen ar David Jones gan Harlech Television (heb ddyddiad), pamffled ar gyfer Gŵyl David Jones (1973), a copi o adolygiad o 'In Parenthesis' David Jones o 'The Tablet' (1964), gan Saunders Lewis, ac o 'Time and Tide' (1952) gan Emyr Humphreys, a llyfryn ar gyfer arddangosfa David Jones (1972) , ymhlith papurau eraill. / Papers relating to Saunders Lewis and David Jones collected and written by Emyr Humphreys, comprising typescripts of the essays ‘A Necessary Figure’ and ‘Enaid Digymar’ (published in Y Faner, 1985), a manuscript draft of an essay related to the work ‘Excelsior’ by Saunders Lewis (undated), and further pamphlets and cuttings relating to Saunders Lewis, including a copy of a tribute by Thomas Parry (undated), a tribute by Theatr Ymylon ([1973]), a cutting from the Radio Times (1987), and a pamphlet ‘Y Ddrama yn Ewrop’ (with foreword by Emyr Humphreys); together with typescript and manuscript notes titled ‘Hours by the Window: an artist in Philistia’ (undated), typescript notes relating to a programme on David Jones by Harlech Television (undated), a pamphlet for the David Jones Festival (1973), a copy of a review of David Jones’ ‘In Parenthesis’ from ‘The Tablet’ (1964), by Saunders Lewis, and from ‘Time and Tide’ (1952) by Emyr Humphreys, and a booklet for a David Jones exhibition (1972), among other papers.