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Family papers, 1898-1989, mainly relating to Rhyda Williams, mother of Julian Williams.

The file includes letters from the Welsh Arts Council (24), 1969-1987, the Western Mail (50), 1936-1987, the West Wales Association for the Arts (17), 1975-1988, Professor Mary Williams (8), 1973-1974, the Women's International Art Club (10), 1947-1956, and Roger Worsley (34), 1972-1996.

The correspondents include: Mary Williams (18), 1907-1921, T. Marchant Williams (8), 1897-1910, and W. S. Gwynn-Williams, 1926.

Proof-sheets of an article by Professor Mary Williams, Swansea (1882-1977) entitled The Dying God in Welsh Literature, with manuscript corrections by the author.

Papers, lecture and research notes of and acquired by Mary Williams, relating to Middle French, Middle Welsh and medieval literature and Arthurian studies, 1907-1963; books collected by Mary Williams, 1897-1911; letters to Prof. Victor Spiers, 1898-1916; vouchers and receipts, 1924-1973; newspaper cuttings, 1911-1940; school books 1909-1916; papers relating to University College Swansea, 1921-1975, University of Wales Aberystwyth, 1924-1974, University of Durham, 1948-1952, and National Library of Wales, 1941-1974; correspondence, 1927-1976; and family papers, 1898-1944.

An additional group of papers of Professor Mary Williams (1883-1977), French scholar (see Annual Report 1968-69, p 35; 1974-75, p 45; 1977-78, p 50), including letters to her, 1931-64; notes in French relating to romanticism in poetry and the romantic school, 1919 and undated; 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight', a paper read by Richard Fritzschd to the Folk Lore Section of the Devonshire Association, 1962 (Dr Williams was president of the Folk Lore Society, 1961-3); and a reprint of Alfred Adler, 'Sovereignty in Crétien's Yvain', Publications of the Modern Language Assiociation of America, volume lxiii, June 1947.