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The series comprises a typescript draft entitled 'Art in relation to war and our present situation', dated 'c. 1942' by David Jones on the first page, and dated '1942-3, 1946' in The Dying Gaul.

The file comprises manuscript drafts of 'An Introduction to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (numerous drafts, but none of the beginning of the work).

The file comprises a press proof of a page of the Introduction for the 1964 publication, with a note from Will Carter.

The group contains manuscript and typescript drafts of most of the poems which appear in the volume with also some material which was unused.
The Roman Quarry and other sequences was edited by Harman Grisewood and René Hague, and first published by Agenda Editions in 1981. (See the foreword and introduction for information on how the material was selected from the archive for publication in this volume.) The volume is made up of some unpublished poetry, but also poetry which may have been part of The Anathemata (1952), The Sleeping Lord (1974), The Kensington Mass (1975) or The Narrows (1981). Most of the papers are from Group B.

The series comprises a manuscript draft and a typescript draft of 'The Roman Quarry'.

The file comprises three similar typescript drafts of the text published in this volume as 'The Dying Gaul'. There are also four manuscript pages in David Jones' hand, and four photocopies of manuscript pages, and notes by René Hague.

The file comprises manuscript drafts of different versions of the Mass poem, with notes by René Hague and Harman Grisewood. They are arranged in the following order: manuscript draft for typing (numbered 108-119) with a copy of The Kensington Mass published by Agenda Editions in 1975 annotated by René Hague, and typescript and proofs for Agenda corrected by David Jones; manuscript draft of the beginning of the Kensington Mass (numbered 120-122); manuscript draft of the Kensington Mass (numbered 123-154); draft letter by David Jones discussing the Mass poem (numbered 155-156); manuscript draft of the Kensington Mass and the BBC Mass (numbered 156-165); manuscript draft of the BBC Mass (numbered 166-180); manuscript draft which is the source of the Kensington Mass (numbered 181-234); and manuscript notes for a poem callled 'The Mass' which is not the Kensington Mass (numbered 235-241).

The file comprises manuscript drafts of the Mass poem, with notes by René Hague. They are arranged in the following order: manuscripts reproduced as facsimiles A-O in The Kensington Mass by Agenda Editions in 1975 (numbered 242-255); manuscripts and photocopies of manuscripts of the Mass and the Kensington Mass continuation (numbered 256-277, 278-282, 283-289, 290-319, 320-324).

The file comprises carbon typescript copies of the 'Old Quarry MS A' pages 1-103 (with gaps), 'The Old Quarry. Two' pages 1-33, and two copies of 'The Old Quarry : I' pages 2-22, with also notes by René Hague.

The series comprises manuscript and typescript drafts of 'The Agent'.
David Jones writes about 'The Agent' in a letter to Harman Grisewood in 1962, stating that he is trying to 're-write a thing I did in 1940 (or thereabouts) about a conversation between Judas and Caiaphas'.

The series comprises manuscript and typescript drafts of 'The Book of Balaam's Ass'.
Part of Balaam's Ass was printed in The Sleeping Lord. David Jones began working on 'Balaam's Ass' before In Parenthesis was ready for the press, but he abandoned the project.

The group contains manuscript and typescript drafts of other writings by David Jones, including writing on the subject of 'Wales and Religion', research notes kept by David Jones, and material relating to literature by David Jones.

The file comprises manuscript drafts of a writing by David Jones arising from a report that the Catholics of Bangor, co. Caernarfon, had been preparing for the change from Latin to English of parts of Low Mass (1964). For earlier drafts of this writing see CF2/3. Folio 23 is dated 'Harrow, March 1966'.