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The notebooks contain notes made by Gareth Jones. The earliest ones were kept while he was a student at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth and Trinity College, Cambridge, and are mainly linguistic in character. Later notes are often political commentaries and observations on international developments - in Europe, America and Russia. There are also many travel notes commenting on the countries where he travels and the people whom he meets. Some were kept while Gareth Jones was in the employ of David Lloyd George, based at Churt, and acting as a researcher for the compilation of Lloyd George's War Memoirs.

Pocket diaries, 1923-1934, kept by Gareth Jones while a student at Aberystwyth and Cambridge, and during his extensive travels throughout Europe, Russia and the United States; diaries, 1934-1935, kept by Jones during his 'aroung the world tour'; pocket notebooks, 1923-1934, used as a student and later as a journalist and while travelling, including some used while Jones was in the employ of David Lloyd George; two address books and a wallet of address cards and business cards; three passports; correspondence files, 1916-1935, mainly detailed letters from Gareth Jones to his family from Aberystwyth, Cambridge, and during his travels on the continent, from America, Russia and during his final 'around the world tour' leading up his murder in August 1935, together with a few letters addressed to Gareth Jones; a group of picture postcards, 1903-1935, deriving from members of the Jones family; press cuttings, 1929-1945, mainly of articles written by Jones for publication in various newspapers and journals; papers relating to the capture and death of Gareth Jones in 1935 and to various projects to commemorate his life and work thereafter, 1935-2003; and school reports, 1918-1920, essays written by Gareth Jones and a photograph album, 1918-1935.

Postcards, 1926-1934, from Gareth Vaughan Jones to members of the Williams family of Llantwit Major, relatives of the Jones family, describing his travels and his experiences. The file also contains the manuscript text of a lecture by Gareth Jones entitled 'Soviet Russia in March 1933', given to the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 30 March 1933. There is also a group of letters, January-July 2007, from Morfydd Davies Williams to Dr M. Siriol Colley reminiscing on Gareth Vaughan Jones and on the associations between the two families.

Texts, in English and Welsh, by Annie Gwen Jones, of radio broadcasts containing her reminiscences of her experiences at Hughesovska entitled 'The Steel City'/'Y Ddinas Ddur'.

A notebook containing a manuscript essay by Annie Gwen Jones entitled 'Impressions of Life on the Steppes of Russia'. It contains her reminiscences of the three year period which she spent at Hughesovska from 1889 until 1892.

Papers of Major Edgar Jones, 1894-1953; papers of Mrs Annie Gwen Jones, pre-1914-1943, including her reminiscences of the period which she spent at Hughesovska; and papers, 1926-2007, of the Williams family of Llantwit Major.

Family papers, 1894-2007, including a few papers relating to Gareth Jones's parents Major Edgar Jones and Mrs Annie Gwen Jones; papers of, or relating to, Gareth Vaughan Jones, 1916-2002, including diaries, notebooks, press cuttings of his articles, letters, mainly from him to his parents and other members of his family, and papers relating to his capture and subsequent muder in August 1935; and the papers of Dr Siriol Colley, 1922-2004, mainly deriving from her research into her uncle's life, work and death, including transcripts and photocopies of relevant source materials.

Prince D S Mirsky, A History of Russian Literature from the Earliest Times to the Death of Dostoyevsky (1881) (London, 1927).

Printed books. Two volumes given to Dr Prys T J Morgan by Miss Gwyneth Vaughan Jones, G.V.J.'s sister, c. 1957. They may have been awarded as prizes to G.V.J. when he was a student. Both bear the autograph of the author, dated February 1930, and no 88 bears the autograph of G.V.J.