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The file comprises biographical and background information including draft manuscript letters from David Jones to Captain St Luke, 1929, and to Rex Nan Kivell; a catalogue of the David Jones exhibition at the Redfern gallery, 1948; photocopies of family documents, David Jones' demobilisation certificate form the Royal Welsh Fuseliers, 1919, and his certificate of baptism, 1921; photocopies of six letters from David Jones to Colin Hughes, 1969-1972; letters to René Hague from Mike Richey, Tony Hyne, Nicolete Gray, Jim Ede, Tom Burns and others relating to David Jones; and copies of articles by Kathleen Raine and Arthur R. Howell.

The file includes correspondence about the Commentary mainly between René Hague and Christopher Skelton of the Skelton Press, with letters to René Hague from William Blissett and others, 1977. There are reviews of the Commentary by Kathleen Raine, Harman Grisewood, and Hugh McKinley, 1978, and numerous prints of a portrait by Eric Gill of David Jones in 1921.

The file comprises letters to David Jones from Prudence Pelham, Helen Sutherland (incomplete), and Keidrych Rhys, with a book of poetry by Cid Corman, a map showing Pigotts by Eric Gill, a newspaper cutting of Eric Gill's tombstone, miscellaneous manuscript notes and drafts by David Jones, typed copy of the poem 'Spell of Safekeeping' by Kathleen Raine, maps and other items.

The file comprises letters to David Jones arranged alphabetically, N-R, including Alun Oldfield-Davies, Peter Orr, Kerrison Preston, Mary Potter, Tristram Powell, Prudence Pelham (7), John Rothenstein, Kathleen Raine, Joan Roberts, Howard Roberts and others.

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.