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Correspondence between the donor Rosemary Markham and Peter Prendergast, Kyffin Williams, Jonah Jones, Martin Tinney and others relating to an appeal for the donation of artworks towards the exhibition 'Art for Mercy' at the Washington Gallery, Penarth, 22-24 November 2002, to raise funds for Tearfund, together with minutes of the organising committee and exhibition and auction catalogue. Also included is a letter (in Welsh), 2008, to the donor from David T. Jones, Jonah Jones's son, relating to the project 'Cofio Jonah Jones'.

Letters and papers concerning properties on the Brondanw estate, especially Parc, Croesor Mawr and Minafon; some drawings and plans; letters from Jonah Jones as a tenant and from Prof. Eric Hobsbawm; plans showing the proposed widening of the road through Llanfrothen, 1961-1973.

Papers relating to the organisation and administration of the Romance in the Stone exhibition of work by Jonah Jones in 1990-1991, which was organised by Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, 1989-1991.

Letters, speeches and papers, 1973-1974, relating to the annual Portmeirion Festival in honour of William Maddocks, including a letter from Jonah Jones.

Correspondence and papers concerning Wren urns from St Paul's Cathedral and a parapet from Westminster Abbey, rigging on the Amie Reunie, the listing of the buildings at Portmeirion, the railway from Minffordd to Portmeirion, including a letter from Jonah Jones concerning Portmeirion, and letters from visitors to Portmeirion, 1964-1978. Also included in the file are photocopied drafts of 'Portmeirion Revisited' for Country Life; a photocopy of an article in the New York Times, 1973; an article from the The New Yorker, 1976; and the translation of an article which appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine, 1973.

Letters from Caernarfonshire County Council, the National Trust and others concerning the setting up of the Snowdonia National Park information centre at the Tremadog market hall which Sir Clough Williams-Ellis bought in order to see it restored. The file also includes photographs and a few drawings, and letters from Jonah Jones whose studio was at the market hall, 1959-1962.