The series contains an assortment of diaries and notebooks used as journals to record interesting events in Ray Howard-Jones's life. The earlier diaries contain information written during the War years. Several of the journals contain pieces of poetry which were later published, and many contain notes of her time on Skomer island. A great deal of the diaries record medical details, and many entries were intended as personal letters to her friends and acquaintances. Some of the journals contain very little information other than telephone numbers and addresses.

An eighteenth century blazon of the arms of the family of Knethel of co. Northumberland (ermine, a saltire gules) (mounted on a fragment of an early seventeenth century survey of the farm of properties in Iscoyd Gwynioneth, Aberustwith, Iscoyd Cardigan, Cruthin, Generglin, Diffrin Claragh, Llangeby, Cardigan, Mevennyth, Kilkennon, and Hanyniocke, co. Cardigan); a calligraphic exercise by Thomas Meyler, 1816; a passport issued to Edward Picton Phillips, 1843; a typescript carbon copy of a letter from J. W. Phillips to the press, 1933, relating to the building of the organs of St. Mary's and St. Martin's [Haverfordwest]; and a brief typescript description and history of Skomer Island.