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Papers relating to Gwyneth Lewis's work as National Poet for Wales, comprising: typescript drafts of poems composed by her in that capacity including 'Amgueddfa Genedlaethol y Glannau, Abertawe', 'National Waterfront Museum, Swansea', 'Glas', 'Addewid Dydd Cofio'r Holocost / Addewid ar Ddiwrnod Cofio'r Holocost' and 'Holocaust Memorial Day Pledge', with manuscript annotations; manuscript and typescript notes by Gwyneth Lewis on the nature of a national poet and her personal vision for the post, including autobiographical material; a typescript draft of her mid-office report; correspondence between her and Mike Ruddock, coach of the Welsh rugby team, concerning her poem 'Reply to the Haka'; typescripts of poems by Edwin Morgan about the Scottish Parliament and by Dennis Lewis and Meirion Jordan about Gwyneth Lewis herself; a letter and poem sent by a child to Gwyneth Lewis as national poet; press cuttings relating to Gwyneth Lewis's work as national poet and to the National Assembly for Wales; and an offprint of a review by her in Taliesin of the poetry of Menna Elfyn.

Letters to Sam Adams from A.O.H. Jarman (1), Meic Stephens (5), R. George Thomas (1), Dora Polk (1), Stewart Conn (4), Duncan Glen (1), Edwin Morgan (3), Gus Martin (1), Ulla-Lena Lundberg (1), William Cookson (3), John Ackerman (2), John Barnie (1), Norman Schwenk (1), Ruth Bidgood (1), Lewis Davies (1), Malcolm Parr (1), Christopher Meredith (1), Peter Gruffydd (1), John Harris (2), John Stuart Williams (1), John Davies (1), Glyn Tegai Hughes (2), Pennar Davies (2), Raymond Garlick (1), Roland Mathias (5), Sally Roberts Jones (3), Nest Cleverdon (1), Howell Daniels (1), Tony Curtis (1), Ioan Bowen Rees (1), Nigel Jenkins (1), Chris Torrance (1), Walford Davies (1), Robert Morgan (2), Alexander Cordell (1), Desireé Hirst (1) and Glyn Jones (5) concerning literary, social and personal matters, especially relating to poetry, Poetry Wales and Welsh literature, including comments on Adams's own poems and reviews, together with copies of two poems by Bobi Jones (one of them in Welsh), one poem by Tony Curtis and three by Meic Stephens.