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Stray letters, including a typescript copy of a letter from D. Lloyd George, 8 March 1919, relating to the need for 'Educational Recreation for the workers'. Some of the letters concern the St Athan camp, the Miners' Welfare Fund and the Ocean Area Recreation Union. There is also a copy of the report, November 1929, of the Welfare Organiser's Report on the Ocean Area Recreation Union.

Correspondence and reports, 1934-38, relating to the work of Captain J. Glynn-Davies as Miners' Welfare Officer to the Ocean Coal Company. They include appeals for financial assistance from individuals, voluntary groups and organisations, and unemployed workers' clubs and centres; activities taking place at boys' and girls' camps and clubs; miners' welfare scholarships; Jones's reports, 1935-36, including details of schemes submitted to the Commissioner for the Special Areas, Malcolm Stewart; a personal memorandum, originally submitted by Captain J. Glynn-Jones in 1929 and then re-submitted on his assuming his new position in 1938, outlining the fundamental failings of the Ocean Area Recreastion Union's approach to miners' welfare work and suggesting 'principles' that might be applied to remedy the failings.

Correspondence and reports, 1928-29, relating to the pithead baths, Park Colliery (part of the Ocean Coal Company), the Nine Mile Point Recreation Ground, the Ocean Area Recreation Union, the United National Coal Company's Welfare Acheme, and the St Athan's Miners' Welfare Camp. There is also a copy of the Ocean Area Recreation Union 27th Annual Report for 1948-49, focussing on the St Athan's Camp.