Letters arranged alphabetically
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- 1917-1970
The series comprises letters from various people relating to exhibitions, drawings, publications, radio broadcasts, and personal correspondence.
Letters arranged alphabetically
The series comprises letters from various people relating to exhibitions, drawings, publications, radio broadcasts, and personal correspondence.
Letters arranged chronologically
The series comprises letters from various people, relating to David Jones' literature (especially In Parenthesis and The Anathemata), literary prizes and awards, art exhibitions, pictures, and social engagements.
The series comprises letters from Alun Oldfield-Davies, Lynette Rees, Nancy Sanders, Saunders Lewis, Colin Hughes, Aneirin Talfan Davies, Jackson Knight and others.
Letters from friends and acquaintances
The series comprises letters from various people including Graham Greene, Stephen Spender, David Pryce-Jones, Ruth Wainwright, Hugh Fraser, and E. Sackville West.
Letters from galleries, publishers, etc.
The series comprises letters to David Jones from the Redfern Gallery, Tate Gallery, BBC, British Council, Faber, Ganymed and other publishers and editors, University of Wales and other institutions and societies.
The series comprises draft and incomplete letters from David Jones to friends and acquaintances, relating to his work as author and artist, as well as other disparate topics. The series also includes some draft letters to the press which are mixed within the same files.
The series comprises draft and incomplete letters from David Jones to editors of newspapers, such as The Tablet, The Times, The Listener, and The Catholic Herald relating to history, literature, religion and other topics. The series also includes letters to friends and acquaintances, which are mixed within the same files.
Manuscript and typescript drafts
The series consists of manuscript and typescript drafts of some, but not all (18 of the 27) of the selected writings. There are multiple files relating to some of the articles. The series does not contain material relating to the following writings which form a part of the book: Autobiographical talk (See 'In illo tempore', Dying Gaul), Preface to In Parenthesis (See In Parenthesis), Welshness in Wales (See CF2/11), Welsh Wales, Preface to Anathemata (see Anathemata), Eclipse of a Hymn, Abstract Art, If and Perhaps and But, and Christopher Smart.
The series comprises manuscript drafts of writings by David Jones on various subjects.
The series consists of manuscript drafts of The Anathemata, with related notes and fragments, and two black folders which David Jones used when writing The Anathemata.
The series comprises material actually published in Dai Greatcoat, including copies of David Jones' letters, drafts and settings copies of the book, and related material.
The series comprises manuscript notes by David Jones which Harman Grisewood refers to as the 'Notebook notes'. Although David Jones did not keep many research note books, these papers correspond to what they might have contained. They include sketches, notes, drafts of incomplete letters and texts (possibly of parts of In Parenthesis), Welsh and Latin words, historical dates, lists etc. A few pages are dated 1944, 1946, 1955, 1962, 1963, 1951, 1971. There is a coloured list of David Jones' medication in file 1 f.1, a note on an unused illustration to In Parenthesis in file 2 f. 1, and a coloured history 'map' in file 3, ff. 1-6.
The series comprises other literary papers produced by David Jones, and papers relating to literary works by him. They include an article by David Jones about going to war, his reply on receiving the Hawthornden award, his speech in absentia when receiving his honorary degree from the University of Wales, Bangor, and a review by him of Rejoice in the Lamb. There are also papers relating to The Anathemata, 'Art and Democracy', The Sleeping Lord, Epoch and Artist, 'The Tutelar of the Place', The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, In Parenthesis, and 'A,a,a, Domine Deus'.
Papers relating to David Jones' art
The series comprises material relating to David Jones as an artist, with exhibition catalogues, drafts of letters by David Jones principally relating to art, and lists of paintings.
The series comprises diaries and personal documents, papers relating to David Jones as a soldier in the First World War, and medical records.
Postcards, birthday and Christmas cards,
The series comprises letters, postcards, Christmas cards, birthday cards, telegrams and invitations from various people.
The series comprises miscellaneous pamphlets and publications, maps, and press cuttings, including a copy of Eric Gill's Emblems, 1916.
The series comprises part of an early proof probably printed in 1936, twelve sets of proofs printed in 1937, and an unbound edition of the 1961 edition of In Parenthesis. The proofs were printed by Hague and Gill Limited, High Wycombe.
The series comprises galleys, page proofs, revised page proofs and second revise page proofs.
Untitled
The series comprises a copy of the articles for the printers, proofs, corrections, correspondence, publishers agreement and reviews.