The Raymond Williams Collection represents the culmination of long endeavour to bring to view unpublished manuscripts, notebooks, letters, diaries and papers that the academic writer and novelist Raymond Williams left in part discarded, often neglected.

The work of bringing the Collection to hand has been completed by numerous people, some of whom appear in this report. The Collection is now open to view in Swansea, and accessible by means of online catalogue. Now, with these more personal materials available, it becomes possible to better understand the life and how to build on the work of Raymond Williams. This report carries an account of how the Collection came to be, a description of its contents and projects taking on from where Raymond left off, and practical details of access and content. If it encourages use of the Collection, then it will have succeeded; we hope it will also make for an interesting read.