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The file comprises scripts of three broadcasts concerning David Jones and his work: a review of an exhibition of his paintings in Edinburgh, 21 November 1954; a review of The Anathemata, 19 December 1952; and a talks feature entitled 'David Jones', compiled and introduced by Goronwy Rees and with contributions by T. S. Eliot, Saunders Lewis, Nicolette Gray and Gwyn Williams, 29 Oct. 1954, produced by Aneirin Talfan (two copies of the script, one corrected by David Jones).

The file comprises letters from numerous friends and associates, including Neville Braybrooke, David Cecil, Desmond Chute, Hilda Cochrane (7), P. J. Flood, Arthur Giardelli, T. S. Gregory, A. J. Hartrick (5), C. C. Lloyd Jones (3), Mervyn Levy, Frank Overton, H. D. C. P[epler] (2), Father Leo Rowlands OSFC, Jonathan Scott (4), Tony Stoneburner, and Arthur Pritchard Williams. There is also a Christmas card from T. S. Eliot, two postcards from his secretaries, a typed copy of his poem 'The cultivation of Christmas trees', and a draft note by David Jones relating to the poem.

The file comprises proofs of the frontispiece to T. S. Eliot, A Symposium for his Seventieth Birthday, ed. Neville Braybrook (London, 1958).

The file comprises manuscript draft letters by David Jones to W. H. Auden relating to The Anathemata, 1954, and to T. S. Eliot relating to his illustration of 'The cultivation of Christmas Trees', 1953, with a manuscript letter (and typescript copy) from Jim Ede to David Jones, 1928, and a typescript copy of a 'Description of project' submitted by David Jones to the Bollingen foundation, c. 1960.

The file comprises manuscript drafts of letters from David Jones to friends. The addressees have in most cases been identified by Harman Grisewood and are listed on the wrapper. They include Stella Wright, Colin Hardie, Mr Plumtre, Peter Levi, Herbert Read, Theodore Bailly, Clarissa Eden, Jack Sweeney, Kenneth Clark, Mike Richey, Nancy Sanders, Kathleen Raine, T. S. Eliot and Louis Bonnerot. Amongst the subjects discussed in these letters are The Anathemata (referred to as 'a thing I've been struggling with for some years' in a draft letter to Colin Hardie dated 11 July 1945); Welsh history and the Welsh language (subjects which appear in several of these letters); 'The Fatigue' (1965); an inscription for the ordination of Peter Levi (1964, 1967); 'the general civilizational predicament vis-à-vis 'the arts''; the vernacularization of the Mass ('I've wasted hours & hours & days & days, writing & destroying letters addressed to The Tablet---', 1965); 'my new piece' ('The Sleeping Lord', 1967); Rembrandt (in a draft letter to Lord Clark, 1966); 'The Wall' (1967); Roman roads (1967); his family background and 'The Dream of Private Clitus' (in a draft letter to Louis Bonnerot, n.d.). There is a draft letter of condolence to Valerie Eliot on the death of her husband, T. S. Eliot.

The file comprises typescript and carbon copies of letters from David Jones mainly to Harman Grisewood and Jim Ede, with also letters to Helen Ede and René Hague, with one letter each to Prudence Pelham, Philip Hagreen, and T. S. Eliot.