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David Jones (Artist and Writer) Papers Chute, Desmond Macready, 1895-1962
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Friends

The file comprises letters from numerous friends and associates, including Neville Braybrooke, David Cecil, Desmond Chute, Hilda Cochrane (7), P. J. Flood, Arthur Giardelli, T. S. Gregory, A. J. Hartrick (5), C. C. Lloyd Jones (3), Mervyn Levy, Frank Overton, H. D. C. P[epler] (2), Father Leo Rowlands OSFC, Jonathan Scott (4), Tony Stoneburner, and Arthur Pritchard Williams. There is also a Christmas card from T. S. Eliot, two postcards from his secretaries, a typed copy of his poem 'The cultivation of Christmas trees', and a draft note by David Jones relating to the poem.

Hartrick, Archibald Standish, 1864-1950

Letters and manuscript drafts

The file comprises manuscript drafts, letters and notes by David Jones including a letter to The Tablet about Desmond Chute, 1962; a list of addresses to whom cards are to be sent; an unpublished letter about The Anathemata to the Editor of the New Statesman; typescript and proof copy of David Jones' foreword to Arthur of Albion by R. W. Barber, 1961; comments about The Anathemata and In Parenthesis; two essays written by nuns; an unfinished article on 'The Welsh Aposolate'; galley proof of 'Liturgical Reform' in The Tablet, 1967; letter to Gwynfor Evans, 1966; letter relating to an honorary degree at the University of St Andrews, 1965; letter to Petra [Tegetmeier], 1931; letter to the editor of Poetry relating to proofs of 'The Wall', 1955; important items relating to the insurance value of The Anathemata in 1961 and to the numeration of the manuscripts; corrections to The Anathemata, manuscript drafts of In Parenthesis (pp. 203, 227, 278); a letter about Augustus John; and part of an essay on Eric Gill.

Letters to the press

The file comprises manuscript draft letters to The Times, Listener, The Tablet and the Catholic Herald, and to friends and associates relating to The Anathemata, The Wall, Abstract art, Eric Gill, religion and other subjects. There are letters to Desmond Chute, Sir Ifor Williams, William Hayward, Charles Edwards, and others.

Petra Gill

The file comprises ten postcards to David Jones from Petra Gill and Denis Tegetmeier, 1925-1931, 1953-1957, with also a postcard to Petra Gill from Eric Gill, 2 postcards to Eric Gill, and a postcard to Desmond Chute.

Tegetmeier, Petra, 1906-1999

Postcards

The file comprises postcards to David Jones from Jim Ede, Louis Bonnerot, Janet Stone, Harman Grisewood, Peter Levi, Douglas Cleverdon, Will Carter, Walter Shewring, Desmond Chute, Ben Nicholson, Prudence Pelham, Desirée Hirst, Lynette Roberts, Keidrych Rhys, Tom Burns, René Hague, Helen Sutherland and many other friends and family members, with also a Christmas card made by Ray Howard-Jones and a postcard from David Jones, 1915.

Ede, H. S. (Harold Stanley), 1895-