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'A Critical Study of the Life and Work of Marcus Terentius Varro' (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of London, 1936). Unbound typescript copy.

Material relating to Rainer Maria Rilke, Yr Elegien o Duino ynghyd â Detholiad o'i Ganeuon eraill (Caerdydd: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, ar ran yr Academi Gymreig, 1984). Included are manuscript, typescript and printed translations of the 'Elegien' and other poems; draft introduction and textual notes; series editors' notes and comments; Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru readers' reports (2) on the proposed volume; and correspondence, 1945 and 1978-84, including two letters, 1945, from B J Morse and a letter, 1945, from Idris Bell.

A notebook containing the manuscript translation written by J.H.J. whilst in the sanatorium at Talgarth, co Brecon, 1951; and related papers.

Script of the Welsh translation as broadcast by the BBC Welsh Home Service, 20 March 1953; together with the original typescript, with corrections and suggestions [? by a BBC reader]; correspondence, 1952-3, concerning the broadcast, mostly from the producer John Gwilym Jones, Bangor; and newspaper cuttings, 1953.

'Aischulos: Detholion o'r Agamemnon'. Typescript selections. Published in Cerddi Groeg Clasurol, edited by John Gwyn Griffiths (Caerdydd: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, ar ran yr Academi Gymreig, 1989), pp 22-5.

Typescript fair copy [this translation, further edited by R Telfryn Pritchard, was published in 'Agamemnon ' gan Aischulos. Cyfieithwyd gan John Henry Jones. 'Alcestis' gan Ewripides. Cyfieithwyd gan Henry Parry Jones (Y Ganolfan Astudiaethau Addysg, ar ran Adran Glasurol Gymraeg Urdd y Graddedigion, 1991)].

Correspondence, 1957-84, relating to the publication of the Agamemnon. The correspondents include Gwyn Thomas, Bangor (1) 1973, and J Gwyn Griffiths, Swansea (2) 1984.

'Odysseia': manuscript translations, dated 1982-4, of Homer's Odyssey, V-XIII, undertaken at the request of the Welsh Joint Education Committee. Also included are typescript translations of books V-VIII; and related letters (3) 1983-5 [Owing to a change in the examination syllabus the translation was not published].

'Marcus Terentius Varro. Fragments'. Collected and transcribed by J.H.J., 1936-8. Unbound typescript copy with manuscript additions; unfinished but extensive [A more finished version, together with related material, was donated by Mrs M H Jones to the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, in 1987].

Typescript translations, etc, of poems from Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses, most of which are published in Cardi o Fôn... .

Manuscript translations, 1973-9, of poems as follows [mostly included in Cardi o Fôn...]: ff 1-4 'Mycenai' by George Seferis [see Poetry Wales, 17 (1981), p 32] (with related letter, 1981); ff 5-8 'Undonedd' - translations of two poems 'Monotonia' by Constantine Cavafy and by Giuseppe Ungaretti [see Taliesin, 37 (1977), pp 70-1]; ff 9-21 Poems (9) by C P Cavafy [see O Erddi Eraill, edited by D Myrddin Lloyd (Caerdydd, 1981), pp.18-19]; ff.22-5 'Dana' by Simonides of Ceos [see Cerddi Groeg Clasurol, edited by J Gwyn Griffiths (Caerdydd, 1989), p 21]; with a translation, 1982, 'Y Panther' from Rilke on f.22v; ff 26-8 'Cyffes yr Archfardd', Carmina Burana, 191.