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The file comprises manuscript drafts of a letter, apparently to The Times, arising from a leading article entitled 'At King Arthur's Court' concerning the excavations at South Cadbury.

The file comprises manuscript drafts, all of which appear to be of a letter to The Times arising from 'the Picasso-Matisse correspondence' and concerning the nature of art.

The file comprises manuscript drafts of prose writings, principally concerning the history of Wales. Some of these drafts appear to be of letters to the press and others of letters to private correspondents.

The file comprises manuscript drafts of four letters to The Times, one being a contribution to a correspondence on 'The Fate of Rome' (1944) and the others concerning the Welsh language (1962, 1963).

The file comprises manuscript drafts of a letter, probably to The Times, concerning changes in the Roman Liturgy, together with two typescript copies of the letter dated 17 November 1967.

The file comprises a press cutting of a letter from David Jones to the editor of The Times criticising the decision to cut the Third Programme by a third.

The file comprises manuscript drafts of a letter to The Times about the significance of the events of 11 December 1282 (the death of Llywelyn ein Llyw Olaf) in the history of Wales.

The file comprises a manuscript letter from A. S. Hartrick to David Jones dated 29 January 1944 (an invitation to lunch), together with a draft letter from David Jones to the editor of The Times concerning A. S. Hartrick, a note concerning Hartrick in David Jones's hand and one page of a typescript writing with a brief footnote also apparently concerning Hartrick.

The file comprises three incomplete typescript letters from David Jones, a single page of the typescript text of an article by him entitled 'Ray Howard-Jones : An Introduction' (The Anglo-Welsh Review, vol. 17, no. 39 (Summer 1968) pp. 53-4) and a fragment of typescript. One of these letters, all of which appear to have been intended for publication, concerns the Mabinogion (1950), another is a St David's day message (1960) and the third appears to have arisen from a review of The Great North Road (London, 1961) by Frank Morley (1961).

The file comprises manuscript draft letters to The Times, Listener and the Catholic Herald, relating to The Anathemata and its broadcast, Tryweryn, church art, abstract art, changes in the liturgy, A. S. Hartrick, Augustus John, and other subjects, and a draft preface to 'The Dream of Private Clitus'. There are also draft letters to friends and associates, such as Aneirin Talfan Davies, and J. E. Jones (Plaid Cymru secretary).

The file comprises manuscript draft letters to The Times, Listener, The Tablet and the Catholic Herald, and to friends and associates relating to The Anathemata, The Wall, Abstract art, Eric Gill, religion and other subjects. There are letters to Desmond Chute, Sir Ifor Williams, William Hayward, Charles Edwards, and others.

The file comprises manuscript drafts of letters to The Tablet concerning the vernacularization of the Mass. Many of these drafts are of a letter comprising reflections by David Jones upon 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 (see LO1/7).

The file comprises manuscript drafts, mainly of letters to The Tablet, concerning changes in the Liturgy.

The file comprises copies of The Tablet, 1948-1962, (and one of The Listener, 1956) found amongst David Jones's papers.

The file comprises manuscript drafts of a letter to The Tablet about In Parenthesis. This letter was written by David Jones in response to a leading article in The Tablet of 1 July [1951] entitled 'When the Barrage Lifted' and its principal purpose appears to be to deny that the work is in any sense anti-war propaganda: '... the sole intention was to make a re-calling of a given period of part of my experiences as a private soldier and the reactions, emotions, behaviour and the whole complex of historic inheritance which necessarily conditioned the mixed Welsh and Cockney personnel of the unit in which I chanced to serve.'

The file comprises manuscript drafts of letters to the press concerning liturgical change in the Roman Catholic church. Many of these letters were clearly intended for publication in The Tablet.

The file comprises manuscript drafts of letters to the press concerning liturgical change in the Roman Catholic church. Many of these letters were clearly intended for publication in The Tablet.

The file comprises manuscript drafts of writings relating to religion, principally to the form and significance of the Liturgy. Very many of these writings appear to have been inspired by David Jones' increasing disquiet at liturgical change in the Roman Catholic church from the mid 1950s onwards. Some of the drafts are of letters to The Tablet (and possibly also to other periodicals) and others appear to be of letters to private correspondents. A few drafts can be identified as being of part of 'A Christmas Message 1960' (The Dying Gaul, pp. 167-76). One draft has on its dorse a pencil sketch of a female head in profile.

The group comprises letters from friends, acquaintances, publishers, editors and art galleries, institutions etc.
Letters from David Jones have previously been arranged in different groups by Harman Grisewood and Tom Goldpaugh. Some are arranged into files from individual people and institutions, some are arranged alphabetically by group, and others chronologically.

The series comprises letters from Clarissa Eden, T. S. Eliot, Nicolette Gray, Saunders Lewis, Morag [Mac Clennan], Lady Moray, Edith Sitwell, Janet Stone, Tony Stoneburner, Helen Sutherland and Valerie Wynne-Williams.