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- 1938-1939 (Creation)
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1 envelope.
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Philip Henry Burton (1904-1995), theatre director and writer, was a teacher at the Port Talbot secondary school attended by Richard Burton (then Jenkins) during the early 1940s. Burton became Jenkins's legal guardian and the boy adopted his mentor's surname as his own. Burton nurtured Richard's theatrical talent and helped launch the younger man's acting career. Their relationship is recorded in Burton's Richard & Philip: The Burtons (London, 1992).
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Some seven letters, 1938-1939, to T. I. Ellis from T. Rowland Hughes, BBC Cardiff, concerning a potential programme on intermediate education in Wales to be written by Ellis. Also included is a letter from P. H. Burton, 23 January 1939; and notes in the hand of T. I. Ellis.
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- English
- Welsh
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Welsh, English.
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