The series consists of typescript drafts of The Anathemata: the final typescript, pages of the original typescript rejected after re-typing, a few re-typed pages rejected because they had been re-typed a second time, and carbons which were used by David Jones as working copies.
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The series comprises twelve files of manuscript and typescript drafts of the poem 'The Fatigue' and its introduction, proofs, and scripts for a broadcast reading.
'The Fatigue' was privately printed by friends for David Jones' 70th birthday, on 1 November 1965. David Jones has dated the introduction to the poem August 18th 1965 on page 26. The BBC Third Programme (produced by Douglas Cleverdon) recorded David Jones reading this poem in March 1965. David Jones notes in these files that the poem was 'read on June 3rd 1964 for television' and 'read on Oct. 15 1964 for Brit[ish] Council for Harvard' [library of recordings]. It appears that this 'fragment' was written, or adapted from an earlier work, by David Jones following a request for material to be recorded.
Cleverdon, Douglas
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 manuscript drafts of 'The Old Quarry', Part 1, and typescript drafts of Parts 1 and 2.
Section III of The Roman Quarry consists of 'The Old Quarry Part One', 'The Agent', and 'The Old Quarry Part Two'. 'The Old Quarry' follows on from 'The Grail Mass'. The second half of the Old Quarry is mentioned in letters in 1940 and 1962 to Harman Grisewood.
The series comprises manuscript and typescript drafts of 'The Agent'.
David Jones writes about 'The Agent' in a letter to Harman Grisewood in 1962, stating that he is trying to 're-write a thing I did in 1940 (or thereabouts) about a conversation between Judas and Caiaphas'.
The series comprises a complete manuscript draft of 'The Narrows'.
'The Narrows' was first published in the Anglo-Welsh Review, vol. 22, no. 50 (Autumn 1973) pp. 8-12, and in Agenda, Autumn-Winter 1973-1974. It was later published as a pamphlet with an introduction by Roland Mathias by the Interim Press in 1981.
The file comprises bank statements, cheques and cheque book stubs, receipts and invoices, income tax returns, correspondence with Ethel Watts, David Jones' accountant, and papers relating to the Bollinger foundation, and Sir Kenneth M Clark's Trust. David Jones kept all his receipts, invoices, cheques and bank statements in order for his accountant to calculate his tax returns.
The series comprises manuscript and typescript drafts of 'The Book of Balaam's Ass'.
Part of Balaam's Ass was printed in The Sleeping Lord. David Jones began working on 'Balaam's Ass' before In Parenthesis was ready for the press, but he abandoned the project.
'From The Book of Balaam's Ass' is a fragment of a much longer writing made in the late 1930s and early 1940s provisionally called 'The Book of Balaam's Ass' which was later abandoned by David Jones.
The series comprises three files of manuscript drafts of the poem with notes.
The series comprises miscellaneous pamphlets and publications, maps, and press cuttings, including a copy of Eric Gill's Emblems, 1916.
The series comprises broadcast scripts, articles, plays, poems, lectures, and essays found amongst David Jones' papers. Many appear to have been sent to David Jones by the authors.
The series comprises manuscript, typescript or proof copies of articles written about David Jones by David Blamires, Harman Grisewood, Nicolette Gray, Aneirin Talfan Davies, Eric Gill and others.
Blamires, David, 1936-
James Jones and other family papers
The series comprises papers relating to David Jones' father, James Jones (1860-1943), a native of Holywell, Flintshire, who was a printer's overseer for the Christian Herald and was also a lay reader at St. George's Church, Brockley. Also papers relating to David Jones' mother, Alice Ann née Bradshaw (d. 1937) and her family. She was from the Pool of London area, and had produced watercolours. Also letters to David Jones from his father and sister, marriage certificates and other family documents, and papers relating to the arrangement of funerals for family members.
The group comprises papers showing income and expenditure of David Jones, including papers relating to the Bollinger foundation and Clark trust, and receipts and invoices from tailors, publishers, newsagents, grocers, artists suppliers, and household bills.
Bank statements, cheques and tax
The sub-series comprises bank statements, cheques and cheque book stubbs, income tax returns, and correspondence with Ethel Watts, his accountant.
The series comprises diaries and personal documents, papers relating to David Jones as a soldier in the First World War, and medical records.
Invitations to exhibitions and accumulated images
The series comprises invitations David Jones received to art exhibitions, 1940-1970, in the Tate Gallery, Redfern Gallery and various other galleries, along with printed images and postcards accumulated by him.
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 13 files of artistic works by David Jones which were found amongst his papers. There are greeting and Christmas cards, dating from 1905, designed by David Jones and probably printed with the help of his father who was a printer's overseer. There are some original sketches, copies of frontispieces to his books, and copies of sketches, engravings, prints, and pictures.
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.