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The file comprises manuscript drafts of letters to persons identified by Harman Grisewood as 'Welsh correspondents & acquaintances', including Alun Jones, [Leonard] Twiston-Davies, [Rhydwen] Wiliams, T. H. Parry-Williams and Jonah Jones. Amongst the subjects discussed or referred to are The Anathemata ('I'm working on a book that I suppose may be finished some time but heaven knows when---', 1944); early British and Welsh history; Christopher Dawson [1970]; a commentary by Alun Jones on 'these pieces of mine' (the sleeve notes for the record in the 'Poets of Wales' series of David Jones reading selections of his work?); and the situation of the arts in modern civilization (1972); the inscription made by him and presented to Sir Thomas Parry-Williams by the Hon. Society of Cymmrodorion in 1967; a short questionnaire concerning Wales and the First World War (see The London Welshman, December 1964, pp. 3-4); and the 'Letter from David Jones' published in Poetry Wales, David Jones Special Number, vol. 8, no. 3 (Winter 1972), pp. 5-9. There are a number of drafts of a letter to Gwynfor Evans congratulating him on his electoral victory at Carmarthen in 1966.

The file comprises letters to David Jones from various people including Melvyn Bragg, Will Carter, Sean Day-Lewis, Nicolas Jacobs (4), Sacheverell Sitwell, Alwyn D. Rees, Donald Allchin (3), E. D. Jones, Valentine Ackland, T. H. Parry-Williams (2), Peter Orr, Gerald Morgan, Ken Etheridge, T. D. Williams (2), Moelwyn Merchant, Bryn Griffiths (2), David Blamires (3), Douglas Cleverdon, Christina Foyle, Sir Gilbert S. Inglefield, Ben G. Jones, Alun Oldfield Davies and Rachel Bromwich.