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Seventeen cards (ff. 1-5) and letters (ff. 6-17), 1944-1945, being mainly love letters, from the novelist Richard Llewellyn to Sarah Steinman (later Mrs Sarah Steinman Harms). They were written while he was serving in Italy as a captain in the Welsh Guards and she with the American Red Cross in Rome.
Some of the letters are typescript (ff. 9-13, 15, 17) and several contain ink sketches (ff. 2 verso, 4 verso, 9, 11, 12 recto-verso). There are two letters of introduction of friends of his to Steinman (ff. 14, 16). One letter, postmark 6 May 1945 (f. 13), contains news, including an account of a V2 bomb attack near his home in London.

Papers, [1938x1939]-1984, of Richard Llewellyn, comprising manuscript and proof copies of How Green Was My Valley (1939), [1938x1939], 1940, other literary papers, 1952-1984, correspondence, 1940-1949, 1970-1983, and personal, administrative and financial papers, 1946-1989; together with papers of his second wife Susan Llewellyn, 1959-2000, comprising correspondence, journals and other papers, 1973-1999, and files relating to her management of his affairs and later his literary estate, 1959-2000 (mainly 1968-2000).