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- 1950 - 2014 (Creation)
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1 small box (0.009 m³) + 1 over-sized square box
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Miscellaneous items, mostly of a literary nature, relating to Dannie Abse, the items including: school certificate (July 1940); certificate of first registration in the Medical Register (6 September 1950); West London Synagogue of British Jews certificate of marriage, dated 26 October 1952, between Dannie Abse and Joan Mercer (see also under heading Miscellanea: Miscellanea relating to Joan Abse for certificate from the same synagogue admitting Joan Abse into the Jewish faith); schedule of the 1971 British Council Poetry Reading Tour of Israel, in which Dannie Abse participated (see, for example: Dannie Abse: Goodbye, Twentieth Century (Library of Wales, 2011), pp. 301-308, and under heading Press cuttings); death certificate of Kate Abse, mother of Dannie Abse (1 September 1981); invitations to the marriage of Dannie Abse's daughter Susanna to Paul Gogarty (26 April 1986); passport (22 March 1995); and order of service for the funeral of Dannie Abse's brother, the lawyer and Labour politician Leo Abse (29 August 2008).
Over-sized square box contains undated framed pencil drawing of (presumably) Dannie Abse, signed by (presumably the chemist and immunologist) Arnold Feinstein.
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- English
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James Joyce extract in French and German.
West London Synagogue of British Jews certificate of marriage: Bilingual (English / Yiddish (script)).
Welsh Academy 90th birthday invitation: Bilingual (Welsh / English).
Programme relating to Gorsedd of Bards memorial: Bilingual (Welsh / English).
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Schedule of Israeli tour: Minor tearing to left- and right-hand edges.
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Joan Abse, author and art historian, was the wife of Dannie Abse. She was killed in a car accident in Bridgend in June 2005. See under heading The Presence (Hutchinson, 2007), also, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Abse.
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For the West London Synagogue see, for example: https://www.wls.org.uk/.
For Kate Abse see, for example, Dannie Abse: Goodbye, Twentieth Century (Library of Wales, 2001) (see indexed references); also under headings Correspondence: Correspondence of Dannie Abse and Correspondence: Correspondence of Joan Abse.
For Susanna Abse see, for example: https://qaspractice.com/our-therapies-and-psychotherapists/susanna-abse.
For Leo Abse see, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Abse.
For Arnold Feinstein see, for example: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/dec/10/guardianobituaries.obituaries.
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- Abse, Joan, 1926-2005 (Subject)
- West London Synagogue (London, England) (Subject)
- Abse, Kate, 1890-1981 (Subject)
- Abse, Susanna (Subject)
- Abse, Leo (Subject)
- Gogarty, Paul (Subject)
- Feinstein, Arnold, 1926-2002 (Subject)