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Copies of draft and signed Aberfan Disaster Fund management committee trust deeds, 1966, 1967 and 1980, and a declaration of trust and appointment, 1973.

Copies of poems, an illuminated scroll from the staff and inmates of HMP Lewes, co. Sussex, and a certificate of 65 trees planted in the Ness Ziona Children's Forest, Israel, in response to the loss of life.

Copies of Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) for 26 Oct. 1967, including (col's 1909-2014) a debate on the Report of the Tribunal appointed to inquire into the Aberfan disaster (House of Commons Paper No. 553), and for 21 Oct. 1991, including (col. 619) recognition of the 25th anniversary of the disaster.

Five booklets, comprising: Tudor David (ed.), 'Aberfan and the teachers' ([1967], 24 pp.); and programmes of official opening of Ynysowen Junior & Infant Schools, 20 June 1969, opening events for the Aberfan & Merthyr Vale community centre, 17 Feb.-3 March 1973, and official opening of the community centre by the Queen, 9 March 1973 (two copies).

The first report of the Aberfan Disaster Fund management committe, 21 Oct. 1966-Aug. 1968. Bound in green leather.

Original bundle of Christopher Morgan's De La Salle junior school reports, 1950-1954, and letters home, diaries and typescript impressions of Spain, Portugal and France, 1963-1976, including 'Spanish diary' and 'Estampas de Grenada', 1964, 'Abroad with Columbus' [in France], 1973, and 'Carnet de Provence', 1975.

Pupils' work for the French items of the 1974 prizegiving. Also a French crossword book, 1972, a French vocabulary, 1974, copies of Ladycross project anthologies, 1967-1974, and Christopher Morgan's farewell cards. Also copies of 'The red book', the Ladycross year-book, for 1965, 1971, 1972 (extracts) and 1973/4, containing contributions by or relating to Christopher Morgan, and a school prospectus, c.1974. Also letters from parents and pupils, 1975-1980, some relating to Chris Morgan's organised cycle tours.

11(i). University College of Swansea English, Old English, French and Italian examination papers, 1968-1970, WJEC, JMB and other examination boards' GCE 'O' and 'A' level and CSE English examination papers, 1971, and teaching notes. Also letters from the Welsh Arts Council relating to Dial-a-Poem, 1971, and Leicestershire Education Department, 1971.

11(ii). University College of Swansea teacher training notes and assignments, including placements at, and reports on, Neath grammar-technical school.

11(iii). English assignments, 1968-1970.

11(iv). Department of Education psychology, French and sociology assignments, 1970-1971. Also Christopher Morgan's Diploma in Education extended essay on 'Underachievement at school' and his dissertation, 'The aims, organisational problems and practical implications of "publishing" children's writing in the secondary school', 1971.

Copies of 'Rumpus' poetry magazine, no's 1-6 (two copies of each, edited by Christopher Morgan), and related papers. The first two numbers are undated, and are assumed to be late 1968 and early 1969.

Poetry collections containing contributions by Christopher Morgan, including 'No walls broadsheet', no's 1-4, 6-11, 13-16 (no's 5 and 12 missing), 1968-1969; 'Quickest way out', no. 2, [post 1969]. Also a Glamorgan College of Education Anglo-Welsh Poetry Manuscript Exhibition catalogue, comprising entries by 22 poets, 1975, including Dannie Abse, Alison Bielski, Gillian Clarke, Antony Conran, Roland Mathias and Christopher Morgan. Also 'Selected poems by Paul L. Weare'.

Original file of carbon copies and photocopies of typescript poems by Tony Curtis, the few dated items being 1969-1971. Also 'Pierce (a play for television)' and three articles or short stories. Also a few poems by Christopher Morgan and Matt Simpson, also undated, a postcard from Ian [Robinson] and a Brynmill Press book catalogue, 1983.

Letters and postcards, mainly between Christopher Morgan and Ian Robinson of the Brynmill Press, Morgan's publisher, and sometime senior lecturer in the English Department, University College of Swansea.

The contents of a ring-binder (discarded) entitled 'Christopher Morgan, Welsh poet, 1944-2014, autobiographical', arranged and annotated by Imelda Morgan his sister, containing school and university certificates, CVs, autobiographical and family articles, poems, letters

Scrapbook of work compiled by pupils of Plasmarl junior school, 8-18 June 1971.

'Playground and street games record cards', mainly versions of tag / touch, written by boys in Forms 1M and 1R of Neath grammar school, being homework set by Christipher Morgan, March 1971, and a copy of 'Sawdsheet Three', a cyclostyled publication of the Department of English, University College, Swansea, Easter 1973, containing research into the lore and language of Monmouthshire schoolchildren, and an addition to the checklist of dialect words in co's Brec., Glam., Mon. and Rad.

Copies of 'Castile', vol. 1, no's 2-3, undated, including poems by Christopher Morgan. 'Castile' was edited by Richard Thomas, and stated to be the successor to 'The New Clynian', which had been established in the beginning of the 1960s. 'Castile' was probably a Swansea University student / English Department publication, with contributions from the students of Neuadd Gilbertson, Neuadd Martin and Beck Hall.

School exercise books, mainly St Illtyd's College, Cardiff, including English, French, Spanish, algebra, chemistry, geometry, history, mathematics, two manuscript music books (Maryfield suite, opus 1, and Sinfonietta in G minor, opus 2), and his pupil's report book and loose reports, 1955-1961, and notebooks of juvenalia.

Programmes for Ladycross school prizegiving concerts, 1972-1974, and notices, score and props from 'Twelfth night' as performed by Ladycross school, 1974.

Script (37pp.) for a bowdlerised or modernised version of William Shakespeare's 'King Henry IV Part One', and an undated programme for a school performance of the same.

Successive manuscript and typescript drafts of poems, some dated 1972-2004, and some galley proofs, 2007.