Fonds GB 0210 CHRGAN - Christopher Morgan Papers

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Reference code

GB 0210 CHRGAN

Title

Christopher Morgan Papers

Date(s)

  • 1950-2014 (Creation)

Level of description

Fonds

Extent and medium

11 boxes (0.315 m3).

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Name of creator

(1944-2014)

Biographical history

Archival history

Christopher John Morgan was born 2 May 1944, the child of J. and Eileen C. Morgan, sometime of Roath Park, Cardiff. He was educated at De La Salle school and St Illtyd's college, Cardiff, and University College, Swansea. He taught at various schools, including Ladycross preparatory school, Sussex, 1965-1967 and 1972-1976, and Marlborough House school, Kent, 1976-1984, and (teacher training placements?) at Plasmarl junior school, Swansea, and Neath grammar school, both 1971, before taking early retirement in 1984 due to ill health. After retirement he was a full-time writer of plays, novels, poems and letters. He died in 2014.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Donated by Imelda Morgan of Wem, 22 March 2017.
Additional donation, 5 April 2021.

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Scope and content

Personal and literary papers of Christopher Morgan.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Imelda Morgan, his sister, collected and annotated three files, comprising personal and family papers, 1970-2014 (no. 16), poems, articles, letters and notes, 1980-2014 (no. 28), and articles, 1992-2007 (no. 35), presumably selected from the rest of the collection before its receipt by NLW. She has also annotated a number of other items.

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Accruals are not expected.

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Arranged chronologically.

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Family photographs, photographs of the staff and pupils of Ladycross school, 1966-1974, performances of 'Twelfth Night' at Ladycross school, 1974, and of 'My fair lady' and other plays at Marlborough House school, 1982-1984, his trips to Denmark, 1992, and Malta and Spain, 1993, have been transferred to NLW photographic collection (NLW Llyfrau Ffoto 6136-6142). For further Ladycross photographs, see http://www.ehgp.com/ladycross/ (accessed Feb. 2018). The school closed in 1977.

Unannotated printed matter, including grey literature poetry collections, have been transferred to NLW printed books; annotated copies containing contributions by Christopher Morgan have been retained in this collection.

Cassette tapes from Chris Morgan's teaching days, and floppy discs, have been transferred to NLW audio-visual collection and MabLab respectively.

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Alma system control number

99906943302419

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Archivist's note

Compiled by Stephen Benham. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Christopher Morgan Papers.

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