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Letters, 1930-1940, 1959, from Sir Herbert and Lady Read to Llewelyn Wyn Griffith, including two letters, 1930, to (Margaret) Storm Jameson.

Two letters, 1937 and 1938, from 'Auntie May', probably May Hughes, known to Wyn Griffith as Auntie May, although not a relation.

Miscellaneous papers, including his school report, 1905; a copy of his wife's birth certificate; a newspaper announcement on the birth of his son John, 1919; obituaries on the death of his father, John Griffith, 1933; and biographical notes on Wyn Griffith. A manuscript music book, 1903-1905, containing a few tunes composed by Wyn Griffith as a child, is also included.

A few hymns, carols and songs, being mainly arrangements by John Griffith, including a bound volume containing arrangements, [?1891], of two carols dedicated to May Hughes, entitled 'Carol Fair' (arrangement and words by John Griffith) and 'Wel dyma foreu'. A copy of Cân Miriam: i soprano solo a chydgan. Cyfansoddwyd gan Franz Schubert. Y geiriau gan J. Griffith. Trowyd i nodiant solffa gan W. G McNaught (London, [c. 1903]), is also included.

Letters, 1934, from Sir Walford Davies and T. Gwynn Jones, relating to Walford Davies's composition written as a memorial to John Griffith, and published as Ah! gentle may I lay me down. Words taken from William Blake and Edmund Prys (Cardiff, 1934).

Papers of J. F. Wyn Griffith (1919-1942), son of Llewelyn Wyn Griffith, who was killed in a bombing raid on Lubecke in 1942. They comprise correspondence and diaries, 1937-1940, literary papers, 1925-1940, and personalia, 1935-1950.

Two diaries, January to June 1937 and September 1939 to August 1940; together with a few family letters and photographs, 1937-1940.

A small group of poems and prose written by John Wyn Griffith, mainly 1925-1940.

The literary papers, 1912-1977, of Wyn Griffith, comprising mainly drafts of, and correspondence relating to, his autobiographies, novels, short stories, poetry, translations and libretti; together with articles, speeches and radio scripts, and a small group of research papers on early Welsh and English music.

An autograph copy, [?1935], of a 'continuation of Spring of Youth', a description of Wyn Griffith's childhood in Wales; together with a broadsheet produced by the publishers, Constable & Co. Ltd.

Manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, essays and a radio play by Wyn Griffith.

Incomplete manuscript draft of an untitled work, headed 'Llwyntalcen 15 June '46', opening with the words, 'The shop was closed, the shutters down, and the long counters stretched out naked towards the front windows'.

Incomplete drafts of two untitled works, [1920x1950].

An exercise book containing the manuscript of a short story entitled 'China Dog', dated 27 February 1938; and drafts of a few poems.

Manuscript and typescript copies, 1939-1940, of 'Branwen: a verse play for radio'; together with notes on Ernest Roberts, harpist of Bethesda, whom Wyn Griffith had visited with his father, November 1932.

Manuscript drafts, 1934, and a proof copy of 'This Not the Song They Wish to Hear', published in Guy Chapman's anthology, Vain Glory: a Miscellany of the Great War, 1914-1918, [1937]. The manuscript of the poem, 'Country Tale', 1934, published in The Listener, is also included.

Manuscripts of poems, 1912-1917, by Wyn Griffith to his wife; together with adaptations of a few nursery rhymes, 1926.

A bundle of exercise books containing poetry written between 1929 and 1933, including drafts of a long poem entitled 'Defeat'.

A pocket book containing miscellaneous poems, [?1930], including the English words of 'Troad y Droell', ['The Whirling of the Spinning Wheel'], by Wyn Griffith. The words were set, together with Welsh words by J. Lloyd Williams, to an old Welsh harp melody arranged by Joseph Haydn, and published by Oxford University Press, [?1931].