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Stray letters to Gareth Jones. The correspondents include Sir John Herbert Lewis, 1933 (relating to Gareth Jones's articles on the Five Year plan published in The Times), and Sir John Edward Lloyd, 1930 (2 letters) (relating to the Archaelological Committee). There are also copies of a reference about Gareth Jones, October 1934, written by Sir Bernard Pares of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of the University of London, giving important information about Gareth Jones's career.

Stray items relating to Major Edgar Jones (1868-1953), father of Gareth Vaughan Jones, and headmaster of the Barry Boys' County School from 1899 until his retirement in 1933. They include a small quantity of correspondence on a wide range of subjects, including letters from Gwilym Davies, undated; Sir Owen M. Edwards, 1916; W. Goscombe John, 1952; Dr Thomas Jones CH, 1925, 1947, 1950, 1951 and 1952 (many referring to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth); and Sir John Edward Lloyd, 1929 (relating to the Welsh Language Society). Many of the letters refer to educational themes. There are also two letters, both dated 1953, from Major Edgar Jones to his daughter Eirian Lewis, mother of Dr Siriol Colley. There are also some tributes to Major Jones upon his death in 1953.