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The file comprises miscellaneous manuscript drafts of letters from David Jones to friends and associates, including William Blissett, Jim and Helen Ede, Dame Edith [Sitwell], Ethel [Watts], Rachel Bromwich, Vernon [Watkins], Aneirin [Talfan Davies], [Rhydwen] Williams, [Thomas] Charles Edwards, Prof. Thomas Jones and others. Many of the drafts are incomplete, many only of the first paragraph of the letter. There is also a short note from D. Gwenallt Jones, 1957.

The file comprises letters to David Jones arranged alphabetically, W including Bernard [Wall], Vernon Watkins (2, 1 incomplete), Valerie Wynne-Williams, Ethel Watts, Harri Webb, and others. There are also some incomplete and unidentified letters arranged chronologically.

The file comprises typescript, manuscript and printed copies of poems by various authors (in many cases the author's name is not noted). Includes a typescript copy of a poem by Peter Levi entitled 'Thirty ways of drowning in the sea', with a letter from Alasdair Clayre at All Souls College, Oxford, dated 17 Sept. 1965, asking David Jones whether he would like 'a drawing or two drawings of yours to be used as illustrations for a limited edition of this poem?' (for drafts of a reply to this letter see A2/1), and typescript copies of poems by Charles Madge ('The Storming of the Brain', dated 2 July 1950), Dylan Thomas ('Elegy'), Saunders Lewis ('The Choice', translated by R. Wynne), Stefan George ('Come in the Park described as dead and see', translated by Vernon Watkins and signed by him), William Hayward, Herbert Read, and a translation of 'Wales' by Gwenallt Jones.

The file comprises over 160 letters to David Jones relating to his pictures, exhibitions and reproductions of his pictures from The Redfern Gallery, The Tate Gallery, The Arts Council, The British Council, the Golden Cockerel Press, CEMA and many other galleries, museums, firms and organisations. There are also letters from Frances Richards, Margaret Aeron-Thomas and others with an introduction to an exhibition of the '56 group' by Vernon Watkins.