Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1966-1994 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
2 volumes.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Dedwydd Jones is a playwright, novelist and journalist. His works, many of which have a strong Welsh or Celtic theme, are numerous and eclectic and include Four Strange Plays (Milton Keynes, 2007), Eight Plays From Nowhere (Milton Keynes, 2008), Bard (Cambridge, 1974) (a play relating to the life of Twm o'r Nant), the play Owen Glyndŵr (Cardiff, 1970), the historical novel The Lily and the Dragon (Llanrwst, 2002), and The Raven Man (Bloomington, Indiana, 2005) (a work based on the life of Edgar Allan Poe). Jones was executive editor of the literary periodical 2 Plus 2 from 1983 to 1985.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
NLW MS 23526D: Ulysses; London; Purchase; May 1996; B1996/21.
NLW MS 23568E: Ulysses; London; Purchase; September 1996; B1996/39.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Papers, 1966-1994, comprising letters and cards to the playwright Dedwydd Jones, mostly from actors, playwrights and other prominent theatrical and literary figures.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged according to NLW MSS reference numbers: NLW MSS 23526D, 23568E.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions noted on the 'Modern papers - data protection' form issued with their Readers' Tickets.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Title based on contents.
Alternative identifier(s)
Virtua system control number
Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Jones, Dedwydd -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Jones, Dedwydd -- Archives (Subject)
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
May 2009.
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IX (Aberystwyth, 2003); Dedwydd Jones on-line site, viewed 13 May 2009
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS.