This collection documents twentieth-century British author and artist David Jones through his correspondence, ephemera, drawings, paintings, prints, manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs of his poetry and prose.

Jones's correspondence is largely with friends and publishers. Of note are letters to Louis Bussell, which focus on the events on the Continent prior to World War II as well as artistic matters. Correspondence to Edward Little discusses the publication in the United States of Jones's "The Dying Gaul" broadcast. Letters to the poet Vernon Watkins, the largest single group in the collection, relate to the publication of "The Wall" and "The Tutelar of the Place" in the American journal Poetry.

Jones’s writings are mostly short works for publication in for periodicals or delivered as radio addresses. Prose writings include essays and addresses, most of which were later published in the collections Epoch and Artist (1959) and The Dying Gaul (the posthumous collection, 1978). Poems include multiple versions of "The Fatigue" and "The Wall."

Jones’s art works comprise drawings, engravings, and watercolor paintings. The wood engravings includes proofs for his illustrations of The Book of Jonah and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, with both first state and final plates. The collection also includes Jones’s art used to illustrated printed materials, mostly by St. Dominic's Press, during his lifetime.

Lastly, the collection contains some materials about Jones and his works, as well as his collected ephemera.