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- [1975x1985] (Creation)
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1 envelope
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Biographical and literary notes by Gweno Lewis which relate to Alun Lewis's life and work, comprising:
Undated explanatory notes by Gweno Lewis, presumably addressed to John Pikoulis, relating to some of Alun Lewis's letters; with, enclosed, a typescript copy of an anonymous 15th/16th-century poem titled 'The Bridal Morn' (referred to in Gweno's notes), annotated in Pikoulis's hand.
Gweno Lewis's undated handwritten responses to John Pikoulis's queries regarding Alun Lewis's letters to Professor Christopher Cheney, Lewis's History tutor at Manchester University.
Notes by Gweno Lewis in response to a 1978 article, presumably by John Pikoulis, titled 'Alun Lewis and the vocation of Poetry'.
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- English
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Notes relating to Alun Lewis letters: Right-hand edges and top right-hand corners of several folios torn and fragile. Some foxing.
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Language note: Notes on Alun Lewis's letters to Christopher Cheney contain some Welsh, translated into English by Gweno Lewis.
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The medieval historian Christopher Robert Cheney was born in Banbury and educated at Wadham College, Oxford. He lectured at the University of Manchester from 1933 to 1937). In 1945, he took the chair in Medieval History at Manchester until his election as Professor of Medieval History at the University of Cambridge in 1955, where he remained, as a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, until his retirement in 1972.