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Original file of general RSPB kite correspondence (orig. file ref. 1003). The original file cover (discarded) was entitled "RSPB Kite Correspondence, 1958-66. 'Dead' file per Andy Jones" and endorsed "RSPB 'dead' file, 'rescued' from recycling". The file mainly comprises letters addressed to Mr Brown, secretary of the RSPB, and P. J. Conder, assistant secretary, and copy replies, 1958-1968, many from Captain H. R. H. Vaughan, including relating to the kite reward scheme; "you will be interested to hear that I have unearthed, pretty nearly literally, Kite correspondence dated way back to 1900 and something", 9 Sept. 1959; the transfer of RSPB's early kite papers to Morrey Salmon, Jan. 1960; the RSPB's purchase of part of the Cawdor estate at Ystrad-ffin, co. Carm., 1963-1967; the switch by farmers from arsenical sheep-dips to dips containing dieldrin, including a recommendation to read Rachel Carson, 'Silent spring', 1963-1964; the proposed Llyn Brianne reservoir, 1965; the RSPB's purchase of Mrs Mappin's Ynys-hir estate, co. Card., 1966-1967; a proposed extension of the Pendine Proof & Experimental Establishment danger area, 1967; the lack of Welsh representation on the "Countryside in 1970" conference, 1968; and a newspaper cutting reporting the award of the RSPB gold medal to Captain and Mrs Vaughan, 1968.

"Three years ago the Countryside Council for Wales decided it could no longer afford to contribute towards the cost of annual monitoring of the Welsh kite population, and in 1995 the RSPB followed suit ... So we set up the WKT in an attempt to replace the funding which was no longer available from CCW and RSPB, for monitoring, protection, research, and public education about kites in Wales" (Peter Davis letter to R. S. Thomas, Jan. 1997). Peter Davis was a trustee of the Welsh Kite Trust, 1996-2012.