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The file comprises a notebook containing a manuscript draft of the greater part of Harman Grisewood's annual lecture for 1965 of the BBC in Wales (broadcast in 1966 and published by the BBC, London), 'David Jones, Writer and Artist', together with a sheet of paper containing a copy in David Jones's hand of passages altered by him. There is also a note by Harman Grisewood concerning this item.

The file comprises papers found in the Library of David Jones which was deposited at the National Library of Wales in 1975 (see The Library of David Jones. A Catalogue, 1995). They include galley proofs of 'Religious Enthusiasm' by Christopher Dawson with manuscript corrections by David Jones; University of Wales Press copy of O'Donnell lectures, 'Angles and Britons' by J R R Tolkien, 1963, with manuscript notes by David Jones; 'For the pyre at Oeta' a poem by Harman Grisewood; typescript article 'La reve du Simple Soldat Clitus' translated by Professor Louis Bonnerot; typescript article by Saunders Lewis, 'A note on the asumption', 1951; typescript poem by Mrs I K Moon, 1941; BBC radio broadcast script of 'The dying God' series, 1951; typescript review of Lucerna: studies of some problems in the early history of England by H. P. R. Finberg, 1964; and newspaper cuttings, 1950-1967.

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 Dying Gaul and other writings was published by Faber and Faber in 1978, edited with an introduction by Harman Grisewood. It is a sequel to the earlier collection Epoch and Artist also edited by him. It contains fifteen prose pieces dating from the 1930s and early 1940s as well as the 1970s, including a number of pieces which appeared in magazines or newspapers or had been given as radio talks.
The group contains manuscript and typescript drafts of ten of the prose pieces, with drafts of the introduction by Harman Grisewood, and proofs and setting copies. The group does not contain drafts of 'On the difficulties of one writer of Welsh affinity whose language is English', 'Notes of the 1930s', 'An aspect of the art of England', 'The Roland epic and ourselves' or 'A Christmas message'. The material is mostly from Group C.

The group contains manuscript and typescript drafts of most of the poems which appear in the volume with also some material which was unused.
The Roman Quarry and other sequences was edited by Harman Grisewood and René Hague, and first published by Agenda Editions in 1981. (See the foreword and introduction for information on how the material was selected from the archive for publication in this volume.) The volume is made up of some unpublished poetry, but also poetry which may have been part of The Anathemata (1952), The Sleeping Lord (1974), The Kensington Mass (1975) or The Narrows (1981). Most of the papers are from Group B.

The series comprises a collection of manuscripts by David Jones which Harman Grisewood has sorted into eight folders entitled 'Wales and Religion' and 'Religion and Wales'. They were written either as essays or letters to the press, or possibly both (see the note by Harman Grisewood in file LO2/1 explaining the difficulties of sorting these papers further). The drafts are written mainly in pencil, black biro and ink, on a variety of paper, with many corrections and alterations. Most are undated, with only four folios with the folowing dates: 1957, 1962, 1966, 1968. Many of the pages are numbered by David Jones . Most of file 2 appears to be letters to the Editor of The Tablet. File 7 includes a draft letter on the foundations of the Church in Wales and the vernacularisation of the liturgy. File 8 includes an article on early Christianity in Wales.

The file comprises a typescript essay by Harman Grisewood entitled 'Why am I still a Catholic?' and dated 16 March 1954.