Dangos 270 canlyniad

Letters, 1970 & 1983-6, with occasional press cutting and greetings cards, relating to the author's early years in Abercynon and his autobiography. Correspondents include: Victor Bonham-Carter, 1983 (480/7); Elwyn [? Evans], 1985 (480/19-20); Graeme [Fife], 1983 (480/27); D. Llewellyn Jenkins, 1983-4 (480/39-42); Lord Bernard Miles, 1984 (480/50-1), including some details of Henry Morris, educationalist.

Correspondence, 1963-5, mainly from David Thomson and others at the BBC, concerning preparation of radio programmes on horses; mention of an operation for George Ewart Evans's deafness; contact with Norman Halkett; letters of appreciation, audience research reports and a copy of a press review.

Correspondence, 1958-87, relating to the frog-bone superstition, membership of the Freemen of Llantrisant, preparation of wills for George Ewart Evans and his wife, reviews for the Times Educational Supplement, offer of an honorary degree from the University of Wales and his rejection of it, 1978, and his honorary degree from Essex University, 1982; letters from Victor Bonham-Carter and the Prime Minister's office, 1968-87 (422/2-27), in connection with a civil list pension; F[lorence Evans], 1 October 1976 (422/30), with family news; copy letters from George Ewart Evans and Peter du Sautoy to Lord Rhodes, 10 and 14 April 1975 (422/40-1), concerning his contribution to one of the East Anglian books.

Studio portrait of a soldier with a Welch Regiment cap badge on his beret and commando shoulder patch and title. He also displays a wound stripe. These were awarded in 1944 and withdrawn in 1946. Negative inscribed 'Walters' Llanarthney'

Correspondence of W. G. Archer, [1943]-1944, 1974, comprising two letters, [November 1943] (f. 35), 4 January 1944 (ff. 37-38), from Lt Alun Lewis, [India], to Archer, [Bihar, India], discussing Indian poetry, himself and his ideas on poetry, and a corrected typescript draft, [November 1943], of Archer's reply to the first letter (f. 36); a letter, 27 June 1974, from Neil Sutherland, Lincoln College, Oxford, to Archer, [Hampstead], concerning the Alun Lewis letters (f. 39), and a typescript copy of Archer's reply, dated 30 June 1974 (f. 40).
Also included are carbon copy typescript copies, [?1974], of the Alun Lewis correspondence, presumably being copies of those sent by Archer to Sutherland (ff. 41-48). The Alun Lewis letters are apparently unpublished.

A copy of the poetry anthology pamphlet Call Wind to Witness: Poems by John Bayliss, Charles Hamblett, Alun Lewis and Emanuel Litvinoff (London: Russell Clarke at the sign of the Capriole, [1942]), edited by Hamblett, with a prefatory note by Derek Sandford.
The volume contains the Alun Lewis poems 'Love Letter' and 'Infantry' (pp. 10-11), which likely constitutes his first appearance in book form.

Papers of Charles Hamblett, [1942], relating to the pamphlet Call Wind to Witness: Poems by John Bayliss, Charles Hamblett, Alun Lewis and Emanuel Litvinoff (London, [1942]), edited by Hamblett, comprising a letter, 26 August 1942 (f. 18), and a note, [?September 1942] (f. 19), from Alun Lewis to Hamblett, concerning the choice of his poems for the volume, at a time when Lewis was on embarkation leave; and three letters, [1942], from Derek Sandford to Hamblett, concerning his prefatory note to the volume (ff. 20-22, 27-28), together with two manuscript drafts of the note, entitled 'Introduction: Notes in approach' (ff. 23-26) and 'Introduction: Notes in approach to four poets' (ff. 29-34). The recipient's name has been blacked out in each of the letters as well as in the first version of the introduction (f. 24).

Typescript notes, [?March 1941], by Spr Alun Lewis for three lectures on World Affairs, comprising Lecture I, 'Causes of the Present War' (ff. 1-6), Lecture II (original title 'How trade affects the problems of war and peace' crossed through) (ff. 7-11) and Lecture III (ff. 12-17). The lectures were given while Lewis was assigned to his Brigade's Education Office, and concerned the geopolitical background to the Second World War, the weaponisation of trade and the weaknesses of the League of Nations.
The first lecture appears to be the one infamously interrupted by Lewis's Colonel, accusing him of telling lies (see NLW, Alun Lewis Papers MS 20, ff. 56-58 and John Pikoulis, Alun Lewis: A Life (Bridgend, 1984), pp. 130-131), as suggested by a comment at the start of the second lecture that 'we finished, rather abruptly, last week' (f. 7). The second and third lectures, in particular, contain corrections, deletions and insertions in ink and pencil.

Typescript articles, entitled 'War is a Pestilence...', 1936, and 'Coal and the Burgesses'; and manuscript notes of an autobiographical nature, 1981.

Photo of the "Golden Statue" at Hearst Castle.

R12/1124/1/3.
The Happy Hoboes Concert Party by Dorothy Worsley.
First broadcast: 5 October 1933.
Children's radio programme originally recorded for The Children's Hour.
UID: Unknown.
Typed Script with written annotations.
BBC radio script for The Happy Hoboes Concert Party by Dorothy Worsley.

R12/1124/1/5.
Timkins Minor and the Vikings by George D. Woodham.
First broadcast: 20 December 1933.
Children's radio programme originally recorded for The Children's Hour.
UID: Unknown.
Typed Script with written annotations.
BBC radio script for Timkins Minor and the Vikings. A play by George D. Woodham.

R12/1124/1/2.
The Pageant of the Roads of England: 8. War on the Highway by L. Du Garde Peach.
First broadcast: 3 October 1933.
Children's radio programme originally recorded for The Children's Hour.
UID: Unknown.
Typed Script with written annotations.
The Pageant of the Roads of England: 8. War on the Highway by L. Du Garde Peach.