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The file includes some typescript addenda and corrigenda for the Commentary with manuscript alterations by René Hague. Also there are letters, 1979, to René Hague from 'Michael', W[alter Shewring] from Ampleforth, and Nancy Sandars, relating to his book.

The file comprises letters and post cards to David Jones from A. S. Hartrick, Rex Nan Kivell, Tom Burns, Janet Stone, Sir Kenneth Clark, Aneirin Talfan Davies, Harman Grisewood, Illtud Evans, Moelwyn Merchant, Anthony Steel, Saunders Lewis, Christopher Dawson, William Hayward, Bryn Griffiths, Colin Hughes, Nancy Sandars, August Closs, [Arthur Giardelli], E.V.C. Plumptre, Jack Sweeney and others.

The file comprises letters to David Jones arranged alphabetically, S-V, including Helen Sutherland, Nancy Sandars, Meic Stephens, Walter Shewring, Tony Stoneburner, Stephen Spender, Frances Stevenson, Lilian Somerville, Denys Sutton, Petra Tegetmeier, Andrew Vicari 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.