File BB/4 - Correspondence

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BB/4

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Correspondence

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  • 1978, 1980-1984 (Creation)

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1 bundle.

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Letters and cards to Gwyneth Lewis from university and school friends and teaching staff, from her family, from literary and media contacts, and from public officials and private companies, and also a few draft letters written by Gwyneth Lewis herself, concerning personal, social, literary, intellectual, academic, political and family matters, including her published work and her editorial work with Poetry Wales, during her time at Cambridge and in the United States; included in a letter to her parents are typescript copies of three of her poems ('Santes y Ffrog Goch', 'A Dirge for Mrs Davies' and 'Awen Morgannwg') with manuscript annotations.

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Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions set out in information provided when applying for their Readers' Tickets, whereby the reader shall become responsible for compliance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library.

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  • Breton
  • English
  • French
  • Italian
  • Spanish
  • Welsh

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English, Welsh and French, with some Breton, Spanish and Italian

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Further poems composed by Gwyneth Lewis during this period are in AA1/2.

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  • Text: Gwyneth Lewis Papers BB/4 (Box 19)