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Extracts, c. 1910, copied by Gwen John from a draft of Rodin's Les Cathédrales de France (1914), together with exercises in French translation.

Notes and extracts, 1911-1917, by Gwen John, copied from printed sources, mainly of a religious nature.

Extracts, 1911-1919, by Gwen John, copied from various authors, mostly religious or philosophical.

Rough sketches and notes, 1928-1933, by Gwen John, mostly made in the reading room of the Grands Magasins du Louvre, and including fragments of draft letters to Véra Oumançoff.

Some forty draft letters, 1919-1939, from Gwen John to various correspondents (surnames A-N), including Chloe and Grilda Boughton-Leigh (1) ?1920s, Tom Burns (4) 1927-c. 1928-1929, Father Martin D'Arcy (1) 1933, Mary Constance Lloyd (5) c. 1920-1930, Dorelia McNeill (7) c. 1928-1936, and various members of the John family.

Some eighty-two draft letters, July 1927-April 1932, from Gwen John to Véra Oumançoff, containing mainly personal news and reflections but also including references to John's drawing in church (ff. 1-4, 42 verso); showing her pictures to Véra, and the latter’s reactions to them (ff. 12 verso, 29 verso, 30, 38-40 verso, 66); the 'dessins du lundi' (ff. 56, 78, 97); general references to her work (ff. 21, 23); notes on colours and tones (f. 41); rough sketches (f. 90 verso); the demolition of the mairie [at Meudon] and new buildings going up (ff. 60-62); the dampness of the house where she lives (f. 87); fragmentary drafts of letters to Tom Burns (ff. 34, 53 verso).

Some one hundred and five undated draft letters, [c. 1927]-[c. 1932], from Gwen John to Véra Oumançoff, containing mainly personal news and reflections but including references to drawing in church (ff. 13-14, 49); showing her pictures to Véra and the latter's reactions to them (ff. 41, 47, 50, 52-56); the 'dessins du lundi' (ff. 40, 50, 76, 95, 107, 127, 129-130); general reference to her work (ff. 19, 31, 51, 87, 115-116); rough sketches (ff. 79 verso, 83, 86 verso); visits to the Galerie Bernheim (f. 125), and to la Chapelle du Val (f. 124); fragmentary drafts of letters to her godmother (f. 46 verso) and to [?Chloe Boughton-Leigh] (f. 134 verso).

Some one hundred and thirty draft letters, [c. 1908]-1938, from Gwen John to various correspondents (surnames P-W), including Rainer Maria Rilke (4) [c. 1910]-1913, Auguste Rodin (57) [c. 1908]-[c. 1916], and Ursula Tyrwhitt (4) 1911-1938.

Over a hundred letters, 1906-1938, to Gwen John from various correspondents (surnames A-B), including Chloe Boughton-Leigh (64) ?1907-1938, and Grilda Boughton-Leigh (9) 1906-c. 1932.

Some sixty-five letters, 1904-1938, to Gwen John from various correspondents (surnames B-J), including Tom Burns (4) 1927-1929, Father Martin D'Arcy (1) 1933, Jeanne Robert Foster (13) [1920]-1925, Maud Gonne (1) 1915, and Augustus John (27) 1904-1938.

Some sixty letters, 1910-1938, to Gwen John from her father, Edwin William John.

Some one hundred and ten letters, 1903-1939, to Gwen John from various correspondents (surnames J-L), including Ida John (née Nettleship) (11) [1903]-1904, and members of the John family.

Some one hundred and fifteen letters, 1903-1939, to Gwen John from various correspondents (surnames L-P), including Mary Constance Lloyd (6) 1906-[1930], Dorelia McNeill (38) c. 1903-1939, and Véra Oumançoff (9) ?1927-[1928].

Some fifty letters, 1908-1932, to Gwen John from various correspondents (surnames Q-R), including John Quinn (38) 1911-1924 (together with typescript copies of four replies from Gwen John, 1911-1923), and Rainer Maria Rilke (4) 1908-1914.

Some seventy letters, 1906-1915, to Gwen John from Auguste Rodin.

Some seventy letters, 1907-1939, to Gwen John from various correspondents (surnames R-W), including Arthur Symons (7) 1919-1920, and Ursula Tyrwhitt (31) [1907]-1939, together with a few business letters and papers, and six letters addressed to various correspondents, 1902-1926, mostly from Ida John.

Over a hundred letters, 1934-1956, addressed to Edwin John, nephew of Gwen John, from various correspondents (surnames B-J), including his father, Augustus John (48) 1938-1956, and other members of the John family; many of the letters are concerned with the 1946 Gwen John memorial exhibition.

Some sixty letters, 1928-1953, to Edwin John from various correspondents (surnames K-W), including Dorelia McNeill (6) 1938-1945.

Over forty letters and telegrams, 1939-1945, to Edwin John, as Gwen John's executor and principal legatee, relating to the disposal of her estate.

Some fifty-five letters, 1940-1949, to Edwin John from galleries, dealers and agents, relating mainly to the dispersal of Gwen John's work after her death.