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The file comprises letters from numerous friends and associates, including Neville Braybrooke, David Cecil, Desmond Chute, Hilda Cochrane (7), P. J. Flood, Arthur Giardelli, T. S. Gregory, A. J. Hartrick (5), C. C. Lloyd Jones (3), Mervyn Levy, Frank Overton, H. D. C. P[epler] (2), Father Leo Rowlands OSFC, Jonathan Scott (4), Tony Stoneburner, and Arthur Pritchard Williams. There is also a Christmas card from T. S. Eliot, two postcards from his secretaries, a typed copy of his poem 'The cultivation of Christmas trees', and a draft note by David Jones relating to the poem.

The file comprises a drawing of a chair by A. S. Hartrick, David Jones' art master; a reproduction of David Jones' self-portrait, 'Human Being 1931'; and a photograph of two objects which were always in his room, a knife with 'Ste Paul / O.P.N' carved into the handle and a stone with 'Elri / Cymru' carved into it. (See a letter to Harman Grisewood, 1959, published in Dai Greatcoat, pp.176-178, in which David Jones says that 'I know that an involvement in "Welshness" has an awful lot to do with my intrication with Elri' [Valerie Wynne-Williams]).

The file comprises letters and post cards to David Jones from A. S. Hartrick, Rex Nan Kivell, Tom Burns, Janet Stone, Sir Kenneth Clark, Aneirin Talfan Davies, Harman Grisewood, Illtud Evans, Moelwyn Merchant, Anthony Steel, Saunders Lewis, Christopher Dawson, William Hayward, Bryn Griffiths, Colin Hughes, Nancy Sandars, August Closs, [Arthur Giardelli], E.V.C. Plumptre, Jack Sweeney and others.