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Notes on a wide range of subjects, mostly relating to Gwyneth Lewis's literary interests and studies, compiled by her while at school and as a college student.

Papers relating to Gwyneth Lewis's personal experience and creative work in the field of mental health.

Ephemera accumulated by Gwyneth Lewis relating to her personal and family life, including orders of service for weddings and funerals (notably her own wedding), an inventory of her flat at [Girton], identity cards (for universities, libraries, transport, swimming baths and the BBC), membership cards for Oxbridge societies, examination literature, records of medical appointments and an eye prescription, an international driving permit and papers relating to speed awareness, tickets for transport and events, event programmes, domestic receipts, a letter from a utility provider, gym records, a diary kept by her sister Marian as a child, and a personalised calendar featuring family members, together with related notes, photographs, press cuttings, booklets, leaflets, badges, and drawings by adults and children.

Ephemera accumulated by Gwyneth Lewis relating to her travels in the United States, Spain, England, Ireland, the Netherlands, Estonia, Italy, Turkey and Wales, including a typescript schedule for a film shoot in Cambridge involving her, as well as maps, postcards, hotel receipts, travel tickets and bookings, entrance tickets and guidebooks for tourist attractions, a property prospectus, and related leaflets.

Ephemera accumulated by Gwyneth Lewis relating to her academic life at Cambridge, Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and Cardiff, including college prospectuses, a press cutting of a job advertisement, a fellowship certificate, college and student event notifications and invitations (notably including literary presentations by Gwyneth Lewis and talks about her work), college menus and seating plans, programmes of student society events and a college symposium, a lecture list, information sheets and booklets about colleges and libraries, orders of service, membership forms, a grant application form, a college invoice, instructions for examination entries, instructions and programmes for degree ceremonies, annual and quarterly reports, a commemorative edition of a booklet on college etiquette, and postcards.

Photographs featuring and taken by Gwyneth Lewis reflecting her personal and professional activities, notably in the United States, Wales and Spain, including literary events, award ceremonies, tourism, and social and family events.

Papers relating to Gwyneth Lewis's financial affairs.

Unpublished and published poetry by Gwyneth Lewis, with correspondence and other papers relating to her poetry.

Compositions, notes, copies of articles, booklets and press cuttings accumulated by Gwyneth Lewis in the course of preparing for workshops, projects, publications and other literary work, including manuscript and typescript drafts of poems (‘Palaestra di poeti’, ‘Lippizaners’, ‘City Safari’, ‘The Love of Furniture’, ‘Field Guide to Dementia’, ‘The Feeder’, ‘Murmuration’, ‘No Sparrow Ode’, ‘Imaginary Walks in Istanbul’, ‘Maen Hir’, and ‘Marwnad’) with manuscript annotations, draft essays (‘Return to Girton’ and ‘Dancing in the Dark’), material relating to subjects including depression and the writing of poetry and prose, a copy of a draft review of her poetry, a photocopy of a letter and poem by her published in Poetry Review, and a printout of an article on the human brain from the website of University of Liverpool Centre for Poetry and Science.

Papers accumulated by Gwyneth Lewis at an opera writing workshop that she attended at the Aldeburgh Festival, including a photocopy of the text of the Japanese play 'Sumidagawa', manuscript notes on it by Gwyneth Lewis, correspondence and an information pack.

Papers relating to literary projects undertaken by Gwyneth Lewis other than her major published work, including festivals and workshops, research, translation, media work, posts and honours.

An education pack created by the Cardiff Millennium Centre for use in schools, containing leaflets and other teaching resources (including samples of stone, wood, steel and glass) relating to visual art, literacy and language, numeracy and mathematics, history, geography, design and technology, and science.

Correspondence between Gwyneth Lewis, her sister, Marian, her parents and their relatives, the Tanner family, concerning family news during Gwyneth Lewis's stay with the Tanners in Illinois in 1976; also included are letters from friends concerning social matters, and a letter from Gwyneth Lewis to an aunt in Cardiff.

Letters and cards to Gwyneth Lewis from friends, family, agents, writers and colleagues concerning personal, social, family, domestic and literary matters, including Gwyneth Lewis's career and her work on 'Zero gravity', with copies of typescript and email replies from her to Elizabeth Grossman, and a letter from Liverpool Crown Court concerning her appearance as a witness in a trial, as well as related photographs and press cuttings, and notes by Gwyneth Lewis relating to a trip to Mexico.

Letters, cards and email correspondence between Gwyneth Lewis, friends, publishers, agents, colleagues, academics, family, universities, government agencies, funding bodies, event organisers, artists and readers of her work concerning literary, social, personal and broadcasting matters, including the creation, publication, performance, translation, sales and impact of her literary work, her research, her literary collaborations and appearances, depression and illness, her inscription for the Wales Millennium Centre, her tributes to other writers, family news, fellowships at Girton College, Cambridge, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the potential purchase of her archival papers, together with draft letters from Gwyneth Lewis, a typescript draft of the introduction to her verbal presentation on ‘The Health of Poetry’ and manuscript notes and memoranda relating to her work, and manuscript notes by her on typescript poems by George Szirtes, as well as related press cuttings, forms, booklets and event schedules, and also email printouts of family photographs, a short typescript essay by an unidentified author on Welsh attitudes to Ireland, a funeral address relating to her uncle in the United States, and a draft letter from Leighton Denver Davies to the Mountain Ash Golf Club. The paper on which some of the emails are printed comprises: letters and documents concerning listing agreements, insurance and radio licensing, 2001-2007, relating to Gwyneth Lewis’s yacht ‘Jameeleh’; a copy of parts of her CV; printouts of parts of 'A Hospital Odyssey'; copies of work sent to her by Tom Bullough and C. K. Williams; a proof copy of part of Byron Rogers, The man who went into the West: the life of R.S. Thomas (Aurum : London, 2007); a completed form relating to a submission for the Arts and Business Cymru Awards on behalf of a youth arts project; and other literary miscellanea, as well as part of a typescript report on the use of the Welsh language, reports and statistics concerning the media in Wales, and an equipment list relating to a trip to Lundy.

Correspondence comprising letters and cards sent between Gwyneth Lewis and friends, family, colleges, editors and other writers concerning personal, social and literary matters, including the performance and publication of her work, her posts at Girton and Stanford, together with associated press cuttings and poems by Dannie Abse and others, as well as a letter to Gwyneth Lewis’s parents from her aunt and uncle containing press cuttings, letters, cards, notes and ephemera relating to her life and career, including a typescript copy of her poem 'Bri'.

Diaries, notes and memoranda compiled by Gwyneth Lewis for practical personal, domestic and professional use.

Diaries kept by Gwyneth Lewis, incomplete in parts, noting appointments and reminders relating to her personal and professional life, with some notes on personal and literary matters.

Papers accumulated by Gwyneth Lewis relating to personal aspects of her domestic, professional, social and academic life other than those directly covered elsewhere in the archive.

Letters, invoices and permits from maritime agencies and engineers in south Wales and southeastern Ireland relating to the registration, maintenance, mooring and sale of Gwyneth Lewis's yacht 'Jameeleh'.