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Five letters, July 2007-June 2008, from Dr Raymond Garlick to Dr Jacques Wirz (ff. 1-5), together with eighteen corresponding letters, July 2007-December 2008, from Wirz to Garlick (ff. 6-26).

Thirteen letters, July 2005-April 2007, from Dr Raymond Garlick to Dr Jacques Wirz (ff. 1-13), together with fifteen corresponding letters, July 2005-June 2007, from Wirz to Garlick (ff. 14-23, 27-32).
The letters include references to Harri Webb (f. 1), Brenda Chamberlain (f. 7), John Petts (f. 7) and R. S. Thomas (f. 8). Also included is a typescript translation into English by Wirz of an article in German, by Daisy Reck, concerning Cader Idris (ff. 24-26).

Twenty-one letters, December 2001, August 2003-June 2005, from Dr Raymond Garlick to Dr Jacques Wirz (ff. 1-21), together with twenty-two corresponding letters, April 2000, July 2003-May 2005, from Wirz to Garlick (ff. 23, 39-48, 56-75).
Also included are Wirz's translations into English of three articles relating to Wales, in German, by Daisy Reck, [2001] (ff. 34-38), [2003] (ff. 50-55), along with cuttings of parts of the articles (ff. 32-33, 49); a transcript, in English, of a Swiss radio programme featuring Reck entitled 'Wales, Land of Magic and Magicians', [2000] (ff. 24-31); and a translation of an article on Reck's late husband, the Swiss journalist Oskar Reck, [2003x2005], taken from Journalismus aus Leidenschaft: Oskar Reck - ein Leben für das Wort, ed. by Roy Oppenheim (Bern, 2003) (ff. 76-83).

Sixteen letters, August 2001-June 2003, from Raymond Garlick to Dr Jacques Wirz (ff. 42-45, 47-59), together with twenty-five corresponding letters, July 2001-June 2003, from Wirz (ff. 1-41 verso).
The letters contain comments on R. S. Thomas (ff. 1 verso-5 verso passim, 8, 42-44, 59) and Dylan Thomas (ff. 2 verso, 5, 42, 43 recto-verso).

Twenty-one letters and cards, July 1999-June 2001, from Raymond Garlick to Dr Jacques Wirz (ff. 1-3, 5-6 verso, 8-27 verso), together with twenty-five corresponding letters and a card, August 1999-June 2001, from Dr Wirz (ff. 28-75 verso).
The letters contain references to John Cowper Powys (ff. 10, 48-51 passim), R. S. Thomas (ff. 15, 21-23 passim, 25 verso, 62 verso), Brenda Chamberlain (ff. 14-15) and Roland Mathias (f. 18). Also included is a photocopy, [?2001], of a letter from Garlick to Daisy [Reck], dated 2 December 1999 (f. 7), three limericks by Garlick (f. 9) and translations into English by Wirz of excerpts from Peter Sager's German language book, Wales (Cologne, 1985) (ff. 33-44); a letter fragment (f. 4) is part of a letter, dated 21 September 1997, now NLW MS 23784D, f. 3.

Fifteen letters, July 1997-June 1999, from Raymond Garlick to Jacques Wirz (ff. 1-18), together with nineteen corresponding letters, August 1997-July 1999, from Dr Wirz (ff. 19-52).
The letters contain references to the referendum on devolution in Wales (ff. 3, 4 verso), the death of Diana, Princess of Wales (ff. 3, 5 verso), Brenda Chamberlain (ff. 5, 25 verso-26), Jon Dressel (ff. 6-12 passim), R. S. Thomas (ff. 8 recto-verso, 11 verso, 12), John Cowper Powys (ff. 11, 36) and Andrew Sachs (f. 14). Garlick's letter dated 21 September 1997 (f. 3) is incomplete; the missing part is now NLW MS 23845D, f. 4.

Thirty letters and a postcard, 1993-1997, from Raymond Garlick to Dr Jacques Wirz of Therwil, near Basel, Switzerland (ff. 1-42), together with forty-two corresponding letters and a Christmas card, 1993-1997, from Dr Wirz (ff. 43-114).

Over a hundred letters and cards, 1985-1993, to Raymond Garlick from Dr Jacques Wirz of Basel, Switzerland, containing mainly personal news and comments.

Over a hundred letters and cards, 1947-1957, 1985-1993, from Raymond Garlick to Dr Jacques Wirz of Basel, Switzerland, containing personal news and comments on his teaching and literary work.
Also included are typescript drafts of eight poems published in the writer's Poems from the Mountain-House (London, [1950]) (ff. 9-16) and six published in Travel Notes (Llandysul, 1992) (ff. 137-140, 142-143); a typescript draft of his article 'A poet looks back', Llais Llyfrau/Book News from Wales (Summer 1989) (ff. 134-136); together with reviews and other printed material relating to him and his work, 1988-1993.

Correspondence, 1947-2008, of Raymond Garlick with Dr Jacques Wirz of Basel, Switzerland, containing mainly personal news, reminiscences and comments on current affairs.

Three files of correspondence, newspaper cuttings and other papers, 1969-1984, compiled by Raymond Garlick in support of the 1970s campaign of non-violent direct action concerning the status of the Welsh language, in which his wife and children were involved. The files contain papers relating to the use of Welsh during court proceedings involving protesters, and in prisons (ff. 1-133) and the actions of the police during various protests and court appearances (ff. 134-219) as well as general documents and correspondence (ff. 220-343).
The correspondents include various judges and court officials (ff. 1, 11-12, 42-44, 65-66, 70, 74, 82-83, 104, 111, 208, 224), the Home Office (ff. 2-5, 56-58, 75), the National Council for Civil Liberties (ff. 6-7, 101, 173, 183, 261-262, 318-319), the Lord Chancellor’s office (ff. 9-10, 29, 34-38, 45-48, 94, 310-313), the Law Society (ff. 20-28, 102-103), Dyfed-Powys Constabulary (ff. 134-148, 184-185, 191, 210-212), South Wales Constabulary (ff. 149-151, 186-188, 193-195, 197-200), Gwynedd Constabulary (ff. 152-156, 177, 180, 182, 204-205), Manchester and Salford Police (ff. 169-171), the BBC (ff. 324-334, 336-337), newspapers including the Times and the Western Mail (ff. 49-50, 52, 54, 68-69, 73, 84, 107-108, 110, 116, 119, 121, 172, 196, 226, 234), and Welsh members of parliament including Gwynoro Jones (ff. 59-60, 178-179, 181, 201-203, 309) and Tom Ellis (ff. 117, 258, 268-271, 280-282). Also included are papers relating to the memorandum on the workings of the Welsh Language Act (1967) submitted to Lord Justice Edmund Davies in 1972 by the National Council for Civil Liberties (ff. 263-300, 303-304, 314-317). Other items of interest are letters in Welsh, from Dafydd Iwan, 5 June 1969, concerning the demonstration against Prince Charles’s attendance at the Urdd eisteddfod (f. 220) and from Iestyn Garlick to his parents, 19 April 1972, while on remand at H.M. Remand Centre, Cardiff (f. 252).

Holograph first drafts of fourteen poems by Raymond Garlick, 1975-[1990], comprising 'Adam in Eden', [?1975] (ff. 1-2; f. 2 is a corrected typescript), 'Ebb Tide', 19-21 October 1975 (f. 3), 'The Art Lesson', 17-18 December 1975 (f. 4), 'Where?', 5-7 January 1976 (f. 5), 'Portrait of a Young Dog as an Artist', [1975x1978] (ff. 6-8), 'Epigrams', [1975x1978] (f. 9), 'The Hottentot Fig', [24 March 1989] (ff. 10-11), 'The Comforters', [17 April 1989] (ff. 12-13), 'The Heiress', [21-22 April 1989] (ff. 14-15), 'Fellow Travellers', 28 July 1989 (ff. 16-17), 'Book Review' (first stanza only), [1 August 1989] (f. 18), 'The Odyssey Continues' (first two stanzas only), [?28 August 1989] (f. 19), 'The Exile', [?June 1990] (f. 20), and 'In the Jungle', [?June 1990] (f. 21).
'Adam in Eden' was published in Incense: Poems 1972-1975 (Llandysul, 1976); 'Portrait of a Young Dog as an Artist' was published in Planet, 41 (June 1978), 29; 'Ebb Tide', 'The Art Lesson' and 'Where?' were published in Collected Poems 1946-1986 (Llandysul, 1987); 'Epigrams' is apparently unpublished. The eight later poems (ff. 11-21) all appeared in Travel Notes: New Poems (Llandysul, 1992). Also included is a typescript by the author, listing the contents; the order given has now been superseded (f. 22).

A notebook, 1978-1989, in the hand of Raymond Garlick containing manuscript drafts and sixty pages of pasted in typescript drafts of twenty-five poems, consisting of two groups: fourteen poems, dated June 1978-August 1979 (ff. 3-50), and a further eleven poems, dated March-April 1989 (ff. 50 verso-73 verso).
Of the earlier poems, five were published in Planet and seven appeared in Raymond Garlick, Collected Poems 1946-1986 (Llandysul, 1987), most notably 'Notes for an autobiography' (ff. 31 verso-50); the remaining six are apparently unpublished. Of the eleven later poems six were published in Planet and the New Welsh Review; they were all subsequently collected in Raymond Garlick, Travel Notes: New Poems (Llandysul, 1992).

A notebook in the hand of Raymond Garlick containing manuscript drafts, together with forty-four pages of pasted in typescript drafts, of thirty-three poems, dated January 1977-May 1978 (ff. 3-93 verso).
Some twenty poems were published in the Anglo-Welsh Review, Poetry Wales and Planet, while sixteen appeared in Raymond Garlick, Collected Poems 1946-1986 (Llandysul, 1987). Eleven poems appear to be unpublished. Also included loose in the volume is a list of the contents of the volume, recording publication details (ff. 96-97).

Corrected proofs, [?1976], of Raymond Garlick, Incense: Poems 1972-1975 (Llandysul, 1976), containing corrections to punctuation, typographical errors and pagination, together with minor revisions to the poems 'Fanfare for Europe' (ff. 11-12) and 'Incense' (f. 64), all supplied in red ink by the author.

A volume in the hand of Raymond Garlick containing manuscript drafts of five poems, dated September-November 1974, all of which were included in Raymond Garlick, Incense: Poems 1972-1975 (Llandysul, 1976).

A notebook, 1973-1974, in the hand of Raymond Garlick containing manuscript and typescript drafts of sixteen poems, dated July 1973-May 1974 (ff. 3-33 (rectos only), 40 verso, 41 verso), and of articles and letters (ff. 2, 33 verso-62 (text mostly on rectos)).
Typescript drafts of six of the poems have been pasted in on ff. 14, 15, 16, 19, 21, 23, 26, 32, 33. Some of the poems were published in Poetry Wales and elsewhere; twelve were collected in Raymond Garlick, Incense: Poems 1972-1975 (Llandysul, 1976); the remaining four are apparently unpublished. Also included in the volume are drafts of his articles 'The Shapes of Thoughts', published in Poetry Wales, 9.2 (Autumn 1973), 40-48 (ff. 46 verso, 47 verso-51), and 'The Two Literatures of Wales', published in Paedwizer nei Wales (= It Beaken: Tydskrift fan de Fryske Akademy, 36.1/2 (1974)), pp. 26-29 (ff. 42 verso, 43 verso-45); a lecture entitled 'Children's Books with a Welsh Setting', given at Aberystwyth, September 1973 (ff. 51 verso-58 passim); an introduction for a brochure on Trinity College, Carmarthen, 1974 (ff. 38 verso-39 verso); drafts of five letters concerning the Welsh language campaign and the courts (ff. 2, 33 verso-35 verso (versos only), 59 verso, 60 verso-62) and R. S. Thomas (ff. 36 verso, 37 verso), June 1973-May 1974; and a list of his poems written 'Since A Sense of Time', giving, where appropriate, details of publication (f. 62 verso, inside back cover).

A notebook in the hand of Raymond Garlick containing drafts of thirteen poems, dated April 1972-July 1973.
Eleven of the poems were published in the Anglo-Welsh Review, Poetry Wales and Planet; the remaining two were contributed to the Welsh Arts Council's Dial-a-Poem scheme. The poems were all collected in Raymond Garlick, Incense: Poems 1972-1975 (Llandysul, 1976). A single verse of an unfinished poem is on f. 13; it is crossed out and is apparently unpublished.

A volume in the hand of Raymond Garlick containing manuscript drafts, together with a few pasted-in typescripts, of nineteen poems, dated 2 January 1971-26 April 1972.
Six of the poems were published in Poetry Wales, Planet and Poems '73, while 'Acclamation' (ff. 1-2, 3, 4-6, 7-8, 9-14 (rectos only), 24 recto-verso) was broadcast on BBC Radio on 24 February 1972. Thirteen of the poems, including 'Documentary' (ff. 16-22, rectos only) and a revised version of 'Acclamation', were included in Raymond Garlick, A Sense of Time: Poems and Antipoems 1969-1972 (Llandysul, 1972). Five poems are apparently unpublished. Also included are two letters from Meic Stephens, Welsh Arts Council, 31 December 1970 and 18 February 1971, concerning 'Acclamation' (pasted in inside the front cover and on f. 15 respectively). A copy of Dom Julian Stonor, Six Welsh Martyrs (London: Salesian Press, 1961) has been pasted in inside the back cover.

A notebook, 1970-[?1972], in the hand of Raymond Garlick containing manuscript drafts of articles and a letter, 1970-[?1972] (ff. 1-18, 30-35) and some seven poems, dated January-March 1971 (ff. 19 verso-20, 22 verso-29).
Four of the poems were published in Poetry Wales and were included in Raymond Garlick, A Sense of Time: Poems and Antipoems 1969-1972 (Llandysul, 1972); while 'Dial-a-Panegyric' (ff. 22 verso-23) was submitted to the Welsh Arts Council's Dial-a-Poem scheme. The articles are 'A Short Walk in the Desert' (ff. 1-9), published in Planet, 4 (February/March 1971), 28-33, and 'Contempt' (ff. 30-35), published, in Welsh, as 'Dirmyg' in Barn, 112 (February 1972), 90-91, and reviews of Donald Attwater, A Cell of Good Living: The Life, Works and Opinions of Eric Gill (1969) (ff. 9 verso-13), published in The Anglo-Welsh Review, 19 (Spring 1971), 300-302, and of Brynmor Jones, A Bibliography of Anglo-Welsh Literature 1900-1965 (ff. 13 verso-17), published in Poetry Wales, 6.3 (Winter 1970), 56-59. The volume also includes a list of his poems published since 1968 (ff. 18 verso-19). A cutting of Garlick's letter published in the Welsh Nation, November 1970 (f. 17 verso) and a typescript of 'Dial-a-Panegyric' (f. 22 verso) have been pasted into the volume.