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Letters from Robert Graves to to Alun Lewis (3), 1941-1942 [for letters from Alun Lewis to Robert Graves, 1941-1943, see Anglo-Welsh Review, 16.37 (Spring 1967), 9-13] (ff. 1-5); to Gweno Lewis (8), 1943-1945 and n.d., including a detailed critique of the poems to be included in Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets (1945) (ff. 6-18); and to Mrs Gwladys Lewis (2), July 1945 and [December 1945 x January 1946] (ff. 19-20).

Letter, 4 January 1946, from Robert Graves, Galmpton, nr Brixham, Devon, to Gwyn Jones, in which the sender discusses the literary future of Wales and argues for the Mabinogion as a possible influence on Shakespeare's Tempest.

Eleven letters, [1966]-1973, from the poet and novelist Robert Graves, to Owen M. Roberts, Bickley, Kent, his comrade in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, whom Graves credited with saving his life at High Wood in July 1916, during the Somme offensive (ff. 1-3, 5-12).
Also included is a carbon copy typescript letter from Roberts to Graves, 1 January 1968 (f. 4). The letters contain references to the battle at High Wood (ff. 1, 10), the Royal Welch Fusiliers (ff. 6, 8, 11), Siegfried Sassoon (ff. 1 verso, 2, 12 verso) and Harold Macmillan (f. 10 verso). Graves mentions Roberts in his autobiography, Goodbye to All That (London, 1929); Roberts's copy of the 1966 revised edition (see NLW ex 2334) contains an autograph dedication from Graves and a marginal gloss on p. 198.