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Includes letters from Ruth Bidgood (4); Sam Adams (6); Marion Löffler (2); Robert Steel; Meic Stephens (2); Nigel Jenkins (including a typescript copy of his poem 'Porth Cwyfan (for Roland Mathias)'); Gerald Clifton; John Davies (2); Raymond Garlick (2); Jeremy Hooker; Leslie Norris (2); John Pikoulis; and Gillian Clarke (2).

Gohebiaeth, teipysgrifau a phapurau eraill, 1994-1998, Ned Thomas, fel Cyfarwyddwr Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru, mewn perthynas â Places / Y Man a'r Lle, cyfres o ddeuddeg cyfrol fer (chwech yn Gymraeg a chwech yn Saesneg) a gyhoeddwyd gan Wasg Gregynog. = Correspondence, typescripts and other papers, 1994-1998, of Ned Thomas, as Director of the University of Wales Press, relating to Places / Y Man a'r Lle, a series of twelve short volumes (six in Welsh and six in English) published by Gregynog Press.
Ceir gohebiaeth gydag un ar ddeg o'r deuddeg awdur, Ruth Bidgood, Gillian Clarke, Menna Elfyn, Christine Evans, Nigel Jenkins, Robin Llywelyn, Christopher Meredith, Twm Morys, Myrddin ap Dafydd, Ioan Bowen Rees a Wiliam Owen Roberts, yn ogystal â David Esslemont o Wasg Gregynog. Ceir hefyd ddrafftiau o ysgrifau'r awduron yma, heblaw am Christine Evans and Twm Morys; nid yw'r awdur arall, John Barnie, wedi ei gynrhychioli yn y ffeil. = The correspondents include eleven of the twelve contributors, Ruth Bidgood, Gillian Clarke, Menna Elfyn, Christine Evans, Nigel Jenkins, Robin Llywelyn, Christopher Meredith, Twm Morys, Myrddin ap Dafydd, Ioan Bowen Rees and Wiliam Owen Roberts, as well as David Esslemont of Gregynog Press. Drafts of of each author's contributions are included, with the exception of Christine Evans and Twm Morys; the remaining contributor, John Barnie, is not represented in the file.

Some ninety-nine letters and postcards, 1975-2013, from the poet and local historian Ruth Bidgood, Abergwesyn and later Beulah, Powys, addressed to the Rev. James Coutts, and frequently also to his wife Stevie, discussing her poetry, publications and public readings, her daily life and her family, containing frequent references to friends including Anne Cluysenaar, Angela Morton and A. M. (Donald) Allchin (ff. 1-188, 191-214).
Also included are typescript copies of eighteen of Bidgood's poems and sequences of poems, published and unpublished, [c. 1979]-2014, notably 'Hymn to Sant Ffraed' (ff. 215-225), most given by her to Coutts and a few re-typed by him, and cuttings and photocopies of a further fifteen poems from periodicals, 1983-2002 (ff. 25, 37-38, 52-53, 70, 116, 120, 215-265); typescript drafts, cuttings and photocopies of articles, interviews and reviews, [1978]-2006 (ff. 266-299), including two typescript articles by Donald Allchin (ff. 279-293); and a letter from Bidgood's friend Mary [MacGregor], of Myddfai, to James Coutts, 2 June 2009 (ff. 189-190). Many of the letters were written on the backs of sixty-three of Bidgood's own photographs, so as to resemble postcards; besides these a further twenty-nine of her photographs are also included amongst the letters.

Some one hundred and seventy-five original poems by Ruth Bidgood, 1966-2011, mostly typescript, some are emended and a few are in manuscript (ff. 208, 212, 214, 216-217, 219).
The majority of the poems have appeared in various periodicals, as recorded by the author on the individual folios. A few only have subsequently been published in collections, including 'Cwm Pennant' (ff. 132-133) and 'Encounters with Angels' (ff. 195-201) in Symbols of Plenty (Norwich, 2006), 'Complaints' (ff. 66-71, 187-189) and 'Bringing Home the Bride' (ff. 169-170) in Hearing Voices (Blaenau Ffestiniog, 2008), and a revised version of 'Reading a Landscape' (ff. 177-181) in Time Being (Bridgend, 2009). 'The Zombie-makers' (f. 38) and 'Brianne 1970' (f. 42) were first published in Matthew Jarvis, Ruth Bidgood (Cardiff, 2012), pp. 133-134. There are multiple copies or drafts of some poems, including 'Complaints' (ff. 66-71, 187-189), 'Summerers' (ff. 129, 152), 'Apparition' (ff. 171, 208), 'Reading a Landscape' (ff. 177-181), 'Windblow' (ff. 182, 218-219), 'Elan in Autumn' (ff. 193, 213-217) and 'Looms' (ff. 194, 210). A list of contents (for ff. 1-194) in the hand of the author is ff. i-ii; the order has subsequently been revised by her. Since the author usually disposed of typescripts once the poems had been collected, this volume includes rare examples of her work.