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The file comprises 'Augustus John. Artists, anarchist and gypsy' by Horace Shipp, Everybody's Weekly, March 1954; photocopies of galley proofs corrected by Augustus John of his review of Dora E. Yates's My gypsy days: recollections of a Romani Rawnie, [1953]; Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, containing tributes to Augustus John by Sacheverell Sitwell and Walter Starkie, 1962, and Dorelia John by Joseta Jones, 1970; photocopies of Juliette de Bairacli Levy's 'Augustus John in the New Forest', Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society and a draft of the article; 'Hungarian gypsies in Comberton Camp' by the same author; book reviews of Sven Berlin, Dromengro: Man of the road (London, 1971), with references to Augustus John, and an article by Ronald Blythe, The Listener, June 1972, relating to sites for gypsies.

This series comprises letters written mostly by friends and acquaintances whilst she was in hospital at Hereford, including many letters written to her by the Rev. F. E. Llewellyn Jones. There are three letters relating to her enquiries into the meaning of Welsh place-names with a notable contribution from Prof. Melville Richards, UCNW Bangor, and two letters connected with the research and publication of her article 'Notes Concerning Gypsies'.

The group comprises `A Welsh Causerie' cuttings, 1932-1939 (some undated), other cuttings relating to his interests and activities in the fields of antiquities, crafts, culture, folklore, gypsies, politics, preachers, social customs and Welsh nationalism, 1889-1962, and correspondence and scripts relating to radio programmes, 1936-1947.

The series includes lecture notes relating to Welsh gypsies and Teulu Abram Wood, together with an invitation to HFJ to broadcast on Teulu Abram Wood for the BBC, 1946.