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Letters to the Welsh Arts Council from the authors listed below (number of letters in brackets). Ff. 1-36, Brenda Chamberlain, 1968-1971 (32). Ff. 37-42, Cathrin Daniel, 1969-1970 (5). Ff. 43-48, Jack Jones, 1967-1970 (6). Ff. 49-54, D. J. Williams, 1967-1969 (6). Ff. 55-58, Waldo Williams, 1969 (4). Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 71.

Fair holograph copies of the two collections of poems, Welshman in Bloomsbury (London, 1966) and The Sad Mountain (London, 1970).

Drafts of Chapters 9 and 12 of An Asset to Wales (London, 1970).

Typescript of the autobiographical volume A Trickle of Welsh Blood (London, 1967) with autograph corrections.

Typescript draft, corrected in autograph, of parts One to Three (to p. 228 in the printed work) of Oliver Onions's historical novel A Penny for the Harp (London, 1952). Considerable further changes of detail were made before publication.

Six letters from Charles Morgan to Geraint Goodwin 1929-1935: literary and a few personal matters (ff. 1-10); Eighteen letters from Hilda Vaughan to R. Ellis Roberts, the author and journalist, and his wife Harriet, mostly to the latter, 1927-1960: small-talk, some of it literary (ff. 11-42); Two letters from Arthur Machen, 1926 and 1929, the latter, if not both, to a Mr Parker: Machen's autograph (ff. 43-44); Three letters from John Cowper Powys to Sven Erik Tackmark, 1939-1949: personal, with some reference to literature (ff. 45-53); Two letters from W. H. Davies to William Maas of the Daily Chronicle, 1918-1919, about possible contributions; also, fair copies of the poems 'Elli' and 'Bird and Brook', with W. H. Davies's card. The former poem, beginning 'Thou comest unknown, my lady strange and rare', does not appear in the collected poems (ff. 54-60).

Pencil draft, with some typescript, of the novel 'Come Michaelmas' (London, 1939).

Pencil draft of the novel 'Watch for the Morning' (London, 1938).

Drafts, mostly pencil, parts in typescript, of all but four of the stories collected in The White Farm (London, 1937).

Pencil draft of Geraint Goodwin's novel The Heyday in the Blood (London, 1936) with a few sections in typescript. There is evidence of three typings and some rearrangement, e.g., chapter 13 was once chapter 1.

Notebook containing a draft of the novel 'The Water-Castle' (London 1964), based on a journal kept 23 Dec. 1952-2 Feb. 1953. This draft was apparently written in the spring of 1953 (see inside front cover). Changes were later made in this volume; others were made before publication. The volume ends with the journal entry for 31 Jan. (corresponding to p. 140 of the published work). 174 Ff. Annotated catalogues of shows of Brenda Chamberlain's paintings and drawings at Gimpel Fils, 1950 and 1952, which accompanied this volume have been transferred to the Brenda Chamberlain Papers (in NLW). Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 49.

Twenty-eight letters written by Alun Lewis to Brenda Chamberlain, published, but not all in their entirety, by Brenda Chamberlain in Alun Lewis and the Making of the Caseg Broadsheets (London, 1970) (ff. 1-50). The editing of this volume was careless. Apart from minor inaccuracies and omissions, there is confusion of matter from different letters, indication of omitted matter where no omission exists and vice versa. Omitted matter amounts to about a quarter of the total. It may be classified thus: comment on Brenda Chamberlain's work mostly her poetry; trivial business concerning the broadsheets, trivial (not uninteresting) details about Alun Lewis's life; comment on Gweno. A number of omissions in the last category are of some significance; one in the letter of 3 Oct. 1943 deplorably obfuscates the meaning: '... the deep happiness of body and brain [that Gweno brought with her when at last she came to me]'. Also included are letters to Brenda Chamberlain from Vernon Watkins, 1942 (f. 51; Appendix II in the above volume), Gweno Lewis, 1944 (ff. 52-53), and John Rolph, 1956 (f. 54).

Corrected galley proofs of the anthology The Lilting House, ed. by John Stuart Williams and Meic Stephens (London and Swansea, 1969). Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 47.

Corrected page proofs of the anthology The Lilting House, ed. by John Stuart Williams and Meic Stephens (London and Swansea, 1969). Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 47.

Worked typescript and autograph drafts of about a third of the poems collected in 'Requiem and Celebration' (Swansea 1969). On f. 42 is an unidentified fragment, related to another on the verso of f. 19. Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 46.

Typescript of the collection of poems 'The Green Desert' (Llandysul, 1969). The typescript includes a short blurb and a four-line poem 'The Conference' not used in the volume (ff. 4 & 23). 66 Ff. Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 56.

Autograph and a few typescript drafts of poems collected in 'The Green Desert' (Llandysul, 1969), all but seven of the poems in the volume being represented; most of these drafts are virtually fair copies of the poems as printed, ff. 1-77. Also autograph drafts of nine uncollected poems and translations, ff. 78-90. Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 40.

Worked autograph drafts of slightly over half the poems collected in 'Turning away' (Llandysul, 1969), predominantly those in the second half of the volume, ff. 1-64; autograph drafts of 17 other poems, ff. 65-85. Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 39.

Typescript of the novel Hunters and Hunted (London, 1960) with minor autograph changes, together with page proofs of the preliminaries.

Letters written to Raymond Garlick as editor of the magazine 'Dock Leaves' (later 'The Anglo-Welsh Review'), with a few contributions, as below (number of letters in brackets). Ff. 1-5, David Bell (5) 1950-1958;. Ff. 6-14, H. Idris Bell (9), 1951-1954;. Ff. 15-16, Idris Davies (2). 1951;. Fo. 17, Mrs E. A. Davies (mother of Idris) (1), 1954;. Fo. 18, Thomas Jones, CH (1), 1952;. Fo. 19, W. J. Gruffydd (1), n.d. (when he was MP);. Ff. 20-21, T. H. Jones (1 typescript poem 'Rhiannon'), 1960. Fo. 22, David Mathew (1), 1959. Ff. 23-26, Henry Treece (4) .1950-4. Ff. 27-29, Vernon Watkins (3), 1951-4. Ff. 30-52, Huw Menai (9, 14 autograph poems), 1950-4. Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 35.