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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 letters to David Jones relating to In Parenthesis, The Anathemata and various topics, from Laurence Binyon, Stephen Spender (3 letters, 1 incomplete), Sir Edward Marsh (3), John Lehmann, Evelyn Waugh, Sir Herbert Read, Professor John H. Johnston, Anthony Powell (2), W. H. Auden, Hilaire Belloc, Graham Greene, and John Waine. Also a letter from Mark Heathcoat Amory to Harman Grisewood, a note from Harman Grisewood to David Jones, a copy of a letter from Katherine Asquith, and a typed poem by Anthony Conran.

The file comprises papers relating to payments to David Jones from the Bollingen foundation, including a copy of a letter from Stephen Spender, 1959, backing his application, copies of letters from Sir Herbert Read, 1962, and T. S. Eliot, 1963, to support remission of income tax, and a few letters from Ethel Watts, David Jones' accountant. Documents arising from an appeal against a tax payment include a copy of the Bollinger application form with information provided by David Jones about his own personal history, academic background, membership of societies, awards received, and a description of his intended project.

The file comprises typescript, manuscript and printed copies of poems by various authors (in many cases the author's name is not noted). Includes a typescript copy of a poem by Peter Levi entitled 'Thirty ways of drowning in the sea', with a letter from Alasdair Clayre at All Souls College, Oxford, dated 17 Sept. 1965, asking David Jones whether he would like 'a drawing or two drawings of yours to be used as illustrations for a limited edition of this poem?' (for drafts of a reply to this letter see A2/1), and typescript copies of poems by Charles Madge ('The Storming of the Brain', dated 2 July 1950), Dylan Thomas ('Elegy'), Saunders Lewis ('The Choice', translated by R. Wynne), Stefan George ('Come in the Park described as dead and see', translated by Vernon Watkins and signed by him), William Hayward, Herbert Read, and a translation of 'Wales' by Gwenallt Jones.