Ardal dynodi
Cod cyfeirnod
Teitl
Dyddiad(au)
- [1920 x 1998] / (Creation)
Lefel y disgrifiad
Fonds
Maint a chyfrwng
0.658 cubic metres (23 boxes); 3 small boxes (April 2011)
Ardal cyd-destun
Enw'r crëwr
Hanes bywgraffyddol
John Cledwyn Hughes (1920-1978), novelist, was born in Llansanffraid, Montgomeryshire, where his family had farmed for generations. He was a qualified hospital pharmacist, and worked in Yorkshire and Liverpool before settling in Arthog, Merionethshire, in 1947, as a full-time writer. He married Alyna and they had two daughters. He wrote numerous books, among them The Different Drummer (1947), The Inn Closes for Christmas (1947), Wennon (1948) and The Civil Strangers (1949). His topographical books, A Wanderer in North Wales (1949) and Portrait of Snowdonia (1967) were widely acclaimed. He also wrote children's books, including a collection of short stories, The King who Lived on Jelly (1961). He died at Arthog in 1978.
Hanes archifol
Ffynhonnell
Parts purchased from John Cledwyn Hughes, 1972, and his widow, 1979
Ardal cynnwys a strwythur
Natur a chynnwys
Manuscripts and typescripts of works by John Cledwyn Hughes, [1928]-[1978], including typescript copies, printer's copies, proofs and manuscript holographs, with holograph amendments and additions of his non-fictional books, including: A Wanderer in North Wales (1949), Poaching down the Dee (1953), The Northern Marches (1953), West with the Tinkers. A journey through Wales with vagrants (1954), The House in the Cornfield (1956), Royal Wales (with a revised and curtailed version called History of Wales) (1957), Leonard Cheshire, V.C. (1959), Making an Orchard (1959), Ponies for Children (1960), Portrait of Snowdonia (1967), and The Batsford Colour Book of Wales (1975); his published novels including: The Inn Closes for Christmas (1947), The Different Drummer (1947), The Civil Strangers (1949), After the Holiday (1950) and Gold and the Moonspray (1953); children's stories; short stories; and his unpublished works; together with copies, including a manuscript holograph, of The Golden Mountain, serialized in Woman's Journal; correspondence with publishers, his agent and literary figures, 1938-1968; and certificates awarded to Cledwyn Hughes, 1928-1934. The 2011 donation comprises additional drafts of works, volumes of press cuttings, and correspondence.
Gwerthuso, dinistrio ac amserlennu
Action: All records at the National Library of Wales have been retained..
Croniadau
Accruals are not expected.
System o drefniant
Arranged by date of acquisition: the 1972 and 1979 purchases are NLW MSS 20764-9, 20891-4C, 21635-62; the 1983 deposit is arranged under fiction, non-fiction, short stories, other prose items and correspondence; the 1995 donation is arranged under typescript copies of works and miscellaneous; and the 2011 donation is arranged into three series: drafts, press cuttings, and correspondence and miscellaneous papers.
Arranged by date of acquisition: the 1972 and 1979 purchases are NLW MSS 20764-9, 20891-4C, 21635-62; the 1983 deposit is arranged under fiction, non-fiction, short stories, other prose items and correspondence; and the 1995 donation is arranged under typescript copies of works and miscellaneous.
Ardal amodau mynediad a defnydd
Amodau rheoli mynediad
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 1998 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library.
Amodau rheoli atgynhyrchu
Usual copyright regulations apply.
Iaith y deunydd
Sgript o ddeunydd
Nodiadau iaith a sgript
English.
Cyflwr ac anghenion technegol
Cymhorthion chwilio
Hard copies of the catalogues (List of Cledwyn Hughes MSS, Minor Lists and Summaries 1983, pp. 19-23, and 1996, p. 25) are available at the National Library of Wales, excluding the 2011 donation.
Ardal deunyddiau perthynol
Bodolaeth a lleoliad y gwreiddiol
Bodolaeth a lleoliad copïau
Unedau o ddisgrifiad cysylltiedig
Ardal nodiadau
Nodiadau
Title supplied from contents of fonds.
Dynodwr(dynodwyr) eraill
Virtua system control number
Project identifier
Pwyntiau mynediad
Pwyntiau mynediad lleoedd
Pwyntiau mynediad Enw
Pwyntiau mynediad Genre
Ardal rheolaeth disgrifiad
Dynodwr disgrifiad
Dynodwr sefydliad
Rheolau a/neu confensiynau a ddefnyddiwyd
Description follows ANW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
Statws
Lefel manylder disgrifiad
Dyddiadau creadigaeth adolygiad dilead
February 2003 and March 2014.
Iaith(ieithoedd)
- Saesneg
Sgript(iau)
Ffynonellau
Nodyn yr archifydd
Compiled by Seri Crawley for the ANW Project. The following sources were used for the preparation of the description: NLW Schedule of Cledwyn Hughes Manuscripts; Stephens, Meic, Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales (Oxford, 1986);