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The file comprises miscellaneous papers and fragments, including 'The slugs weekly' by René Hague and W. Tegetmeier, 17th July 1960, a pamphlet on Dr Gregorio Maranon, typescript copies of poems, political candidates opinion on Catholic matters, 1950, and a BBC 'Sound News' typescript, 1957.

The file comprises three booklets of stamps.

The file comprises twenty-four letters from T. S. Eliot to David Jones, 1943-1961, relating to the preparation of The Anathemata for publication including a draft blurb, with also references to In Parenthesis, 'Art in relation to war and our present situation', and to 'The Cultivation of Christmas trees' by T. S. Eliot.

The file comprises two volumes of the final typescript copy, from which the galleys were set up. There are revisions in pencil and ink by David Jones throughout. It includes some manuscript pages such as the titles to the eight sections (f. 1), and the list of possible illustrations (f. 245). The four main stages of typing correspond to the four bundles in which T2 was originally found: Preface, pp. 1-43, 44-70 and 71-119. Although folio 111 is dated 1944, this implies the date of writing rather than the date of typing which was possibly 1949, and folio 48 is dated July 1951 when the finishing touches were made to the typescript.

The file comprises the original first carbon typing of the preface, text and notes, wanting a few pages. This was used as David Jones' main working copy for pp. i-xxxiv, 25A-H, 44-70, and includes pencil markings by him. None of the other pages are marked except for pp. 28 and 43. It includes revisions not made in the final typescript (T2) but made in the galleys. Pages 44-70 were found intact as a bundle, whereas the other pages were assembled in NLW (see P.W. Davies' notes).

The file comprises the original second carbon typing of the text and notes, without the preface and wanting a few pages. This was used as David Jones' main working copy for pp. 1-9, 10-25, 26-29, 29-43 and 71-99, and includes pencil markings by him. Except for pp. 57, 57n, 60n, 68n, 114-115, the remainder is virtually unmarked. It includes revisions not made in the final typescript (T2) but made in the galleys. f. 1 is dated 1949 and is the only typescript copy of the title page that survives.

The file comprises the original third carbon typing of the text and notes, without the preface, comprising pages 9, 25, 27, 28, 43, and 44 to end except for p. 49N. This was used as David Jones' main working copy for pp. 9a-[omega] and 97 to end. Apart from p. 60n the remainder is unmarked.

The file comprises pages of the top copy of the original typing removed from T2 because of re-typing or replacement by a carbon. All pages of T6 have revisions by David Jones in pencil or ballpoint. Folios 7-8 are dated 9th of September 1951. Pages 18n-24, 25n-27n and 29n-41n served as copy for re-typing.

The file comprises carbons of re-typed pages and rejected top copies of pages which were re-typed a second time. Some of the pages 7-9 have been typed on a smaller faced machine. There is slight revision in pencil on some of the carbons.

The file comprises letters to David Jones from Sir John Rothenstein and other Tate Gallery employees, relating to his pictures, especially to 'Illustration to the Arthurian Legend: Guinevere', 'Illustrations to the Arthurian Legend: The Four queens', 'Chapel in the Park', 'Dancing bear', 'The terrace', 'Aphrodite in Aulis' and 'Vexilla Regis'.

The file comprises telegrams, and birthday greetings to David Jones from friends, including a card made by Ray [Howard-Jones], and a card made by Dom Theodore Bailey.

The series comprises manuscript and typescript drafts of 'The Agent'.
David Jones writes about 'The Agent' in a letter to Harman Grisewood in 1962, stating that he is trying to 're-write a thing I did in 1940 (or thereabouts) about a conversation between Judas and Caiaphas'.

The group contains manuscript drafts, typescript drafts, proofs, broadcasts and commentaries, reviews and correspondence.
David Jones, The Anathemata: Fragments of An Attempted Writing (Faber and Faber, 1952) is a long prose poem with illustrations, which Jones began writing in 1937 or 1938, and was first typed in 1949. David Jones suffered another breakdown in 1947. In 1953 it won the Russel Loines award for poetry from the Institute of Art and Letters, New York.
The manuscripts came to the Library via Harman Grisewood who sorted the manuscripts before they came to the Library, marking the pages on the bottom left. The worksheets which have survived are incomplete and possibly less than half of the manuscripts survive. The Anathemata grew in the middle as it developed, the first complete text being 7 pages only, the second 75 pages and the third 166 pages. Early drafts are in pencil and later drafts are in ink, with exceptions. The division into eight sections did not occur until the typescript, although implicit in earlier stages. Pre-typing David Jones had three sequences of numbers, referred to as the first, second and third foliation.
A detailed explanation of the arrangement process, of the foliations, and of the watermarks, was prepared by Daniel Huws and P.W. Davies for the proposed NLW printed catalogue of David Jones' manuscripts in [1981] which was never published. The notes are crucial to understanding the complexity of the development of the text and are available as NLW ex 2393. Some of these notes have been incorporated into the descriptions where possible.

The file comprises a manuscript draft of 'The Arthurian Legend' which appeared in The Tablet, 25th December 1948, as a review of Arthurian Torso by Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis.

The series comprises manuscript and typescript drafts of 'The Book of Balaam's Ass'.
Part of Balaam's Ass was printed in The Sleeping Lord. David Jones began working on 'Balaam's Ass' before In Parenthesis was ready for the press, but he abandoned the project.

'From The Book of Balaam's Ass' is a fragment of a much longer writing made in the late 1930s and early 1940s provisionally called 'The Book of Balaam's Ass' which was later abandoned by David Jones.
The series comprises three files of manuscript drafts of the poem with notes.

The file comprises a manuscript copy (1 f.) of a poem entitled 'The Brenner', dated March 19th 1940, which David Jones sent to Harman Grisewood, with photocopies and typescript copies of the same poem and notes on it by René Hague.

The series comprises a manuscript draft of 'The Death of Harold', which was written for The Tablet in 1966 but was unfinished and therefore unpublished.

The series comprises twelve files of manuscript and typescript drafts of the poem and its introduction, proofs for Agenda 1967, and BBC scripts.

The series comprises manuscript drafts of The Dying Gaul with broadcast scripts.