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Eleven letters, [1966]-1973, from the poet and novelist Robert Graves, to Owen M. Roberts, Bickley, Kent, his comrade in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, whom Graves credited with saving his life at High Wood in July 1916, during the Somme offensive (ff. 1-3, 5-12).
Also included is a carbon copy typescript letter from Roberts to Graves, 1 January 1968 (f. 4). The letters contain references to the battle at High Wood (ff. 1, 10), the Royal Welch Fusiliers (ff. 6, 8, 11), Siegfried Sassoon (ff. 1 verso, 2, 12 verso) and Harold Macmillan (f. 10 verso). Graves mentions Roberts in his autobiography, Goodbye to All That (London, 1929); Roberts's copy of the 1966 revised edition (see NLW ex 2334) contains an autograph dedication from Graves and a marginal gloss on p. 198.

The recipients of the letters include Clement Attlee, Lord Beaverbrook, Leonard F. Behrens, Ernest Bevin (8 letters), Brendan Bracken (5 letters), Winston Churchill, F. Seymour Cocks, Lord Colwyn (4 letters), Hugh Dalton, Walter Elliot, Dr T. I. Ellis, D. Owen Evans (2 letters), Major Gwilym Lloyd-George, Sir Edward Grigg, Lord Halifax (4 letters), Lord Hankey, General Sir Edmund Ironside (2 letters), Sir William Jenkins MP, Neath (3 letters), Sir Roger Keyes (3 letters), Kingsley Martin, Malcolm MacDonald (2 letters), Harold Macmillan (3 letters), Reginald McKenna (3 letters), Harold Nicolson (3 letters), Frank Owen, Lord Plymouth, Lord Samuel (2 letters), Geoffrey Shakespeare (2 letters), Sir Archibald Sinclair (4 letters), Lord Teviot, J. P. L. Thomas (3 letters), and Sir Robert Webber, the Western Mail. Also includes a copy of a letter from Malcolm MacDonald to Lord Davies and copies of other incoming letters.

Includes letters from Viscount Camrose, Sir Joseph Davies (2 letters), Anthony Eden, Garbett Edwards (2 letters), Lady Olwen Carey-Evans, Arthur Greenwood, and Lord Rothermere (2 letters). Includes copies of letters to Lord Addison, Viscount Astor, Viscount Camrose, Sir Joseph Davies, Anthony Eden, Garbett Edwards, the Master of Elibank (3 letters), Harold Macmillan (2 letters), Herbert Morrison, Lord Reith, Lord Rothermere (2 letters), and Lord Samuel Includes a copy of a typescript memorandum entitled 'Notes on supplies of mineral oil during the war', 31 January 1941, by Sir Joseph Davies.

Includes a copy of a letter to J. Ramsay MacDonald, then the Lord President of the Council, and copies of letters to Harold Macmillan MP. There are also letters to and from Geoffrey le M. Mander MP and Sir Frederick Maurice.