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- 1968, June-1969, December (Creation)
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165 ff.
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Dannie Abse was born in 1923 in Cardiff, Glamorgan. He studied at the Welsh National School of Medicine, and at King's College and Westminster Hospital in London, qualifying as a doctor in 1943. He entered clinical practice, and was a specialist at the Central Medical Establishment chest clinic, 1954-1989. He is a prolific writer and poet. He is deeply interested by 1930s politics and the Spanish Civil War, which formed the background to his schooldays. His poetry is influenced by his Jewish heritage, Welsh nationality, and his life as a family man and a London suburban dweller. He has published seven volumes of poetry and seven plays. He was Senior Fellow of the Humanities at Princeton University (1973-1974), and president of the Poetry Society (1978-1992). He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1983, Fellow of the Welsh Academy of Letters in 1992 (President since 1995), Honorary Fellow at the University of Wales College of Medicine (1999), and awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Wales (1989) and the University of Glamorgan (1997). He was given a Cholmondeley Award (1985). Abse is married to the art historian Joan Mercer, and together they edited, Voices in the Gallery: Poems and Pictures (1986) and The Music Lover's Literary Companion (1988). They live in Glamorgan.
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The file contains corresondence, 1968-1969, accumulated by Sally Roberts Jones as secretary of the English Language Section of the Academi. The correspondence relates to the first and other early meetings of the section and includes letters and references to many prominent Anglo-Welsh and Welsh language writers including Dannie Abse, Alison Bielski, W. H. Boore, Brenda Chamberlain, Alexander Cordell, Aneirin Talfan Davies, Pennar Davies, Rhys Davies, Tom Earley, Raymond Garlick, Ll. Wyn Griffiths, Peter Gruffydd, Cledwyn Hughes, Richard Hughes, A.O.H. Jarman, Glyn Jones, Harri Pritchard Jones, John Idris Jones, R. Brinley Jones, R. Gerallt Jones, Sally Roberts Jones, T. Gwynn Jones, Roland Mathias, Bill Meilen, Gerald Morgan, Robert Morgan, T. J. Morgan, James Morris, Leslie Norris, D. Parry-Jones, T. H. Parry-Williams, Cecil J. L. Price, A. G. Prys-Jones, Alun Richards, Kate Roberts, Meic Stephens, Gwyn Thomas (Bangor), R. George Thomas, Aled Vaughan, Richard Vaughan, Gwyn Williams (Trefenter), Herbert Williams and Raymond Williams.
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Previous NLW ref. no.: Previously 'Archifau'r Academi Gymreig' D1/1-165
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Preferred citation: EAR1/2
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- Bielski, Alison J. (Subject)
- Boore, W. H. (Walter Hugh) (Subject)
- Cordell, Alexander (Subject)
- Davies, Aneirin Talfan (Subject)
- Davies, Pennar (Subject)
- Davies, Rhys, 1901-1978 (Subject)
- Earley, Tom (Subject)
- Garlick, Raymond (Subject)
- Griffith, Llewelyn Wyn, 1890-1977 (Subject)
- Gruffydd, Peter, 1935- (Subject)
- Hughes, Cledwyn, 1920-1978 (Subject)
- Hughes, Richard, 1900-1976 (Subject)
- Jarman, A. O. H. (Alfred Owen Hughes) (Subject)
- Jones, Glyn, 1905-1995 (Subject)
- Jones, Harri Pritchard (Subject)
- Jones, John Idris, 1938- (Subject)
- Jones, R. Brinley (Subject)
- Jones, R. Gerallt (Robert Gerallt), 1934-1999 (Subject)
- Jones, Sally Roberts (Subject)
- Jones, T. Gwynn (Thomas Gwynn), 1871-1949 (Subject)
- Mathias, Roland (Subject)
- Meilen, Bill, 1932- (Subject)
- Morgan, Gerald, 1935- (Subject)
- Morgan, Robert, 1921-1994 (Subject)
- Morgan, T. J (Subject)
- Morris, Jan, 1926-2020 (Subject)
- Norris, Leslie, 1921-2006 (Subject)
- Parry-Jones, Daniel, 1891-1981 (Subject)
- Parry-Williams, T. H. (Thomas Herbert), Sir, 1887-1975 (Subject)
- Price, Cecil, 1915-1991 (Subject)
- Prys-Jones, A. G. (Arthur Glyn) (Subject)
- Richards, Alun, 1929- (Subject)
- Roberts, Kate, 1891-1985 (Subject)
- Stephens, Meic (Subject)
- Thomas, Gwyn, 1936- (Subject)
- Thomas, R. George (Subject)
- Vaughan, Aled, 1920-1989 (Subject)
- Vaughan, Richard, 1904-1983 (Subject)
- Williams, Gwyn, 1904-1990 (Subject)
- Williams, Herbert, 1932- (Subject)
- Williams, Raymond (Subject)
- Chamberlain, Brenda (Subject)