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Includes letters from Ruth Pryor (10); Glyn Jones (3); Alan Rudrum (7); Chris Torrance (2); Brian Keeble (11); Désirée Hirst (7); David [Dai] Smith (5); David Blamires (3); A. G. Prys-Jones (5); Gwyn Williams (3); Bernard Lloyd; Sally Roberts Jones (14); John Stuart Williams (3); Arthur Giardelli (2); Raymond Garlick (9); Gillian Clarke (8); Leslie Norris (5); Richard Poole (6); Nancy K. Sandars; Dora Polk (2); Ray Howard-Jones (9); Francis Jones (3); Ruth Bidgood (2); Jeremy Hooker (6); John Ormond (4); Austen Wilks (8, including a typescript draft of the article 'Derry Ormond tower: a Welsh landscape artefact'); Dannie Abse (2); J. P. Ward (4); John Pikoulis (8); Roy Thomas (3); Tony Curtis (4); Don Dale-Jones; Sam Adams (3); John Idris Jones (2); Aneirin Talfan Davies (2); John Ackerman; Harri Webb (3); Paul Ferris; John Petts; Alun Richards (2); Glyn Tegai Hughes; Belinda Humfrey; Patrick Thomas; Philip Pacey; and Prys Morgan.

Includes letters from Alun Llewellyn; Don Dale-Jones (2); Glyn Jones (3); Raymond Garlick (5); John Davies (2); Brian Howells; Ruth Bidgood (4); Wynn Thomas; Dora Polk; Belinda Humfrey; and Jeremy Hooker (2).

Includes letters from Cynog Dafis, Don Dale-Jones (13); Denzil Davies (2); Gareth Alban Davies; Gloria Evans Davies (3); Grahame Davies (4); Hazel Walford Davies (7); Hilary Davies (4); Hywel Davies (5); James A. Davies (3); Lewis Davies (4); Stevie Davies (10); Tom Davies (2); Walford Davies (9); Patricia V. Dawson (4 ); Moira Dearnley (4); Jon Dressel (9); and Janet Dubé (23).

Includes letters from Mike Jenkins (14), Nigel Jenkins (15), Alun R. Jones (8), A. G. Prys-Jones (88), Bobi Jones, D. Gwenallt Jones, David Jones (2), Dedwydd Jones (15), Don Dale-Jones (7), E. H. Jones (2), Emrys Maldwyn Jones (6), Gwyn Jones (92; with an additional note amongst the letters of Alice Jones), Harri Pritchard Jones (4), Jack Jones (4), Jonah Jones, Phyllis M. Jones (2), Ray Howard-Jones (4), Sally Roberts Jones (7), T. Gwynn Jones, and William Glynne-Jones (27).

Oxfam Desk Diary 1996, with one week to view, belonging to Raymond Garlick, giving an account of his daily life, interests, work and comments on the news (ff. 1 verso-16 verso, 19-55 verso).
The volume includes references to Gordon Stuart (f. 2), Don Dale-Jones (ff. 6, 27 verso, 28 verso), Brenda Chamberlain (ff. 8 recto-verso), Leslie Norris (f. 9), Jon Dressel (ff. 20, 23, 25, 32 verso-36 verso passim, 47 verso-49), Sam Adams (ff. 23, 24), R. S. Thomas (ff. 26, 31 verso, 36 verso, 47-50 passim, 54), Wyn Binding (ff. 29 verso, 38 verso-46 passim), Jacques Wirz (ff. 31-36 verso passim, 53), Gwynfor Evans (f. 34), Kusha Petts (f. 43) and Roland Mathias (ff. 48 verso-49 verso). A few newspaper cuttings have been pasted into the volume (ff. 8, 17, 25, 31).

W.H. Smith diary of Raymond Garlick for the year 1988, with one day to a page, giving an account of his daily life and interests, reminiscences and comments on the news (ff. 7-189 verso).
The volume includes references to Jon Dressel (ff. 9-164 passim), A. G. Prys-Jones (ff. 13, 183), Don Dale-Jones (ff. 13, 16 verso, 27, 41 verso), Brenda Chamberlain (ff. 16, 34), Elwyn Davies (ff. 17 verso, 171 verso, 189 verso), R. S. Thomas (ff. 20 verso, 40, 46, 71 verso-72, 83 recto-verso, 87 verso, 113, 189), Robert Minhinnick (ff. 24 verso, 35, 37 verso, 153 verso), Gillian Clarke (ff. 30, 32), Roland Mathias (ff. 34, 93 verso, 160 verso), Euros Bowen (f. 54), Jacques Wirz (ff. 72 verso, 90, 107-109 verso, 152 verso), Tony Conran (ff. 77 verso, 105 verso), Gwynfor Evans (ff. 99, 103 verso, 120), James Nicholas (f. 110), Gareth Wardell (ff. 77 verso, 126), Patrick Crotty (ff. 148, 160) and Daniel Huws (f. 170 verso), and to the birth of his grand-daughter, Alys, on 13 May (f. 73 verso). There is also a description of his cruise, in April, of the Eastern Mediterranean, including visits to Classical sites including six of the Seven Wonders of the World (ff. 55-62).

Collins Royal diary of Raymond Garlick for the year 1989, with two days to a page, giving an account of his daily life and interests, reminiscences and comments on the news (ff. 6-110).
The volume includes references to Jon Dressel (ff. 10-104 verso passim), R. S. Thomas (ff. 11 verso, 59, 61 verso-62, 101), Lynette Roberts (f. 15), Brenda Chamberlain (ff. 21, 23), Don Dale-Jones (f. 21), George Noakes (ff. 23 verso-24), Sally Roberts Jones (f. 27), John Tripp (f. 61), Tom Ellis (f. 70), Norah Isaac (f. 79), Jonah Jones (f. 95, 102 verso) and Wyn Binding (f. 101). From 8 March (f. 25) onwards there are frequent notes on the composition of poems. The volume includes drafts of Garlick's poem 'Annus Mirabilis' (ff. 83 recto-verso) as well as a transcript of a poem by R. S. Thomas on Troy (f. 62) (see R. S. Thomas: Letters to Raymond Garlick 1951-1999, ed. by Jason Walford Davies (Llandysul, 2009), p. 136). There is also a description of a cruise, 31 May-14 June, of the Eastern Mediterranean, including visits to Venice, Istanbul, Troy, Athens and various Greek islands (ff. 49-53).

The file contains voting cards, ballot lists, nomination lists and correspondence relating to the election of members, 1979-1980. Those elected were Brian Morris, Don Dale Jones, Alun Rees, John L. Hughes, Ewart Alexander, Sian James and William Canaway. Ron Berry, Bryn Griffiths, Dai Smith, Richard Vaughan and Hilda Vaughan were also elected and invited to join the Academi but their responses to the invitation have not been noted in this file.

Papers of and relating to Thomas Harri Jones, [1956]-[2007], an Anglo-Welsh poet and to the publishing of his biography entitled T.H. Jones : poet of exile (Cardiff, 2001) by P. Bernard Jones and Don Dale-Jones, and a collection of his poems Lucky Jonah and other poems (Llanrwst, 2004) in The corgi series edited by Meic Stephens. The correspondence, 1992-2004, relating to the biography is between the two authors and Madeline Mitchell, widow of T. H. Jones and the papers include a typescript of his critical study on Dylan Thomas published in 1963, 'The birds of Rhiannon', a comedy in three acts, and three short stories by him, together with a BBC script 'Homage to a poet' written and read by Edward Richards, transmitted in 1965. Also two sketches of T. Harri Jones, one by M. Hew, [1960s].