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The file comprises manuscript drafts of letters from David Jones, many of which concern his published works. The addressees, which include Peter Orr and Sister Mary Ursula, are listed on the wrapper. There are drafts of letters concerning In Parenthesis, The Anathemata, Epoch and Artist and the 'fragments' published in The Sleeping Lord and other fragments. Other subjects include lettering for the cover of the Rutgers edition of Poetry and Prayer by Father Thomas Noon; biographical details (principally concerning the period 1921-1934); pictures by David Jones referred to in a letter from a Mr Witaker; Gwyn Williams's translations of Welsh poetry; Owen Glendower by J. C. Powys; together with an essay by Jeremy Hooker on The Anathemata and an article by him in the Winter 1970 number (vol. 6, no. 3) of Poetry Wales (there are drafts of four letters to Jeremy Hooker, one dated 20 October 1970) and suggestions that David Jones contribute an article to New Blackfriars on the general attitude implicit in his work and explicit in his occasional essays, and another to Encounter about Eric Gill (1966).

Papers, [1977]-[2004], including obituaries of his friend book designer John Ryder, 2001; CV of the artist Derwent Wise, [2002] and photographs of Northumberland landscapes painted by him; and a poem 'A walk in Winchester' by Jeremy Hooker.

Includes letters from Douglas Houston; Sylvia Kantaris (2); Angela Morton (5, including poems); Lesley Grant-Adamson (3); Irene E. Thomas (4); Michael Horovitz (4); Sue Stewart; Berenice Moore (4, including a poem); Meic Stephens; Ian M. Emberson; Anne Stevenson (6); Gwyn Parry (9); Sue Moules (6); Ann Vaughan-Williams (3); Christine Evans (4); Liz Cashdan; Chris Bendon; Jeremy Hooker (2); Bill Headdon; Robert Minhinnick; Maggie Holmes (2); Nigel Forde (3); Liz Ashurst (including poems); Berlie Doherty (5, enclosing poem); Enid Luff; Gloria Evans Davies (3); John Sewell; Harold Fawkner (2); Julia Bell (enclosing poem); Glenda Beagan; Caryl Davies (2); Maura Dooley (2); Arnt Lykke Jakobsen; Jane Esson; Terry Gifford (enclosing a poem); David Dabydeen; Sally Roberts Jones; Hugo Williams (2); Joseph Clancy; Kyffin Williams; Jean Earle (2); Sian James (2); and Candyce Clayton.

Includes letters from A. G. Prys-Jones (6); Ted Hughes; Anne Stevenson (4); Jean Earle (4); Bobi Jones; Gwyneth Lewis (5); Olivia Byard; Christine Evans (3); Maura Dooley (4); John Emyr (enclosing poem for Gillian Clarke); Sally Roberts Jones (3); Kate Foley; Anne Cluysenaar (2); Douglas Houston (enclosing poem for Gillian Clarke); Menna Elfyn; Ruth Bidgood; Michael Longley; Gweno Lewis; Leslie Norris; Charles Causley; Meic Stephens; Kevin Crossley-Holland; Lawrence Sail; M. Wynn Thomas (2); Shani Rhys-James (3); R. S. Thomas; Phil Clark; Dannie Abse; Raymond Garlick; Jeremy Hooker; and Nigel Jenkins.

Personal correspondence, 2006 January-June, consisting of letters and cards, discussing literary, political, family, and academic matters, including correspondence from John Barnie (38); Joseph Clancy (1); Helle Michelsen (1); Kathryn Hayward (2); Bruce Clunies Ross (31); Cilla Huggins (1); M. Wynn Thomas (1); Nigel Jenkins (5); David Lloyd (2); Nicholas Murray (2); Malcolm Lewis (1); Peter Finch (1); Jan Morris (1); Mike Parker (1); Robert Minhinnick (1); Meic Stephens (1); Sam Adams (1); Jeremy Hooker (1); Patrick McGuiness (1); Vibeke Fengers (1); Jasmine Donahaye (1); Barry Butson (1); Tabish Khair (1); Robert Cook (1); Margaret Lloyd (1); and Niall Griffiths (1). The file also contains orders of service for the funerals of David Lewis Jones and Cynthia Walker.

Includes letters from William Blissett (2); David [Dai] Smith; Gillian Clarke (5); Belinda Humfrey (4); Arthur Giardelli (8); Jeremy Hooker (6); Ned Thomas; Raymond Garlick (6); Ray Howard-Jones; Judith Maro (4); Harri Pritchard Jones (5); John Trice; Gwyn Jones; David Blamires (7); Sally Roberts Jones (4); Meic Stephens (14); Désirée Hirst (5); Glyn Jones (5); Sam Adams (4); Brian Howells (3); Patrick Thomas (notes); A. G. Prys-Jones; Dora Polk (2); Ruth Bidgood (3); Dannie Abse (3); Jon Dressel (2); Wyn Griffith (4); Sheenagh Pugh (2); John Stuart Williams; Cary Archard; Bobi Jones; Richard Poole; and Alan Rudrum.

Llythyrau at ac oddi wrth Emyr ac Elinor Humphreys ([?1940au]-2010), yn cynnwys gohebiaeth lenyddol a phersonol yn cynnwys llythyrau oddi wrth lenorion megis Sam Adams, Iwan Bala , Meredydd Evans ( Merêd ) a Phyllis Kinney , R. Geraint Gruffydd , ac M. Wynn Thomas, ymhlith eraill. / Letters to and from Emyr and Elinor Humphreys ([?1940s]-2010), consisting of literary and personal correspondence including letters from literary figures such as Sam Adams, Iwan Bala , Meredydd Evans (Merêd) & Phyllis Kinney, R. Geraint Gruffydd, and M. Wynn Thomas, among others.

The file contains correspondence, 1970-1971, accumulated by Sally Roberts Jones as Secretary of the English Language Section of the Academi Gymreig. It includes a letter inviting A. G. Prys-Jones to become the next chairman of the English Language Section following the death of Jack Jones. There are also letters relating to poetry readings including one to be held by the poetry group Horse, established by Peter Finch. Other correspondents include Ron Berry, Alison Bielski, Gillian Clarke, Tom Earley, Raymond Garlick, Cyril Hodges, Jeremy Hooker, Belinda Humfrey, Glyn Jones, Douglas Phillips, Cecil Price, Meic Stephens, Gwyn Thomas (Rhondda), Ned Thomas, and J. P. Ward.

Includes letters from A. G. Prys-Jones (6, including poems); Harriet Zinnes (including poems); Roger Conover (3); Talat Halman; Michael J. Collins (3); Joseph Clancy (including a poem); Jean Earle (3); Sylvia Kantaris (4); Angela Morton (14, including poems); Greg Hill (2); Lesley Grant-Adamson (7); Roger Garfitt; Anne Stevenson (10, including a poem); Paul Hyland (7); Jane A. Wight; Tom Rawling (2); Irene E. Thomas (11); Meic Stephens (2); Jeremy Hooker (5); Huw Jones; Meredydd Evans; Michael Horovitz (11); Fay Godwin (4); Roland Mathias (3); Joyce Herbert; Berenice Moore (5); Thomas Owen Clancy (4, including a poem); R. S. Thomas (4); Donald Swann (3); Tony Curtis (2); Christine Evans (7, including poems); Glenda Beagan (5, including a poem); Sue Moules (12); John Tripp; John Latham (3); Carole Satyamurti (2); Gloria Evans Davies (2, enclosing poems); Gwyn Parry (5); and Chris Bendon (2).

Includes letters from Betty Mulcahy (2); Mavis Carter (6); Robert Minhinnick; Gwyn Parry (11, including a poem); Shelagh Hourahane (2); Berlie Doherty (3); Christine Evans (2); Mary Oldham; Lesley Grant-Adamson (4); Candyce Clayton (2); Berenice Moore (3); Cary Archard; Irene E. Thomas; Angela Morton (6, including a poem); Howard Bowcott; Anna Jauncey (3); Julia Bell; Moelwyn Merchant (2); Cora Greenhill; Alison Leonard (including a poem); Michael Horovitz; Maggie Hannan (including poems); Myra Schneider (including a poem); Gerard Casey; Gwyn O. Jones (2); Bill Headdon; Tony Curtis (copy); T. A. Owen (2); Roland Mathias (2); Glyn Jones (2); Eric Alexander (enclosing poems); Maurice Rutherford (3); Michael Holroyd (2); Roger Garfitt; Enid Luff; Meic Stephens; Carys Bell; Kate Foley; and Jeremy Hooker.

The file comprises papers, [1975]-1976, relating to Poems '76, ed. Glyn Jones (Llandysul, 1976). The poems included in the anthology appeared between 1974 and 1976, though it seems they were composed, and some published, before this period. Some of the notes are written on typescript drafts of works which appear to have been composed by Glyn Jones. -- In addition the file contains correspondence, 1975-1976, including draft letters by Glyn Jones and copies of a letter by him requesting the authors' permission to use their poems in the anthology, and letters from the following, mostly contributors: John Ackerman (2), Sam Adams (3), Graham Allen (2), Ruth Bidgood, Alison Bielski (2), Joseph Clancy, Bobi Jones, Anthony Conran (2), Tony Curtis (2), Elwyn Davies (3), Jon Dressel, Dannie Abse, Tom Earley, Raymond Garlick, Jeremy Hooker (3), Emyr Humphreys (2), Nigel Jenkins, Sally Roberts Jones (3), Edward Lloyd (4), Roland Mathias (3), Robert Minhinnick (2), John Ormond (2), Richard Poole, A. G. Prys-Jones, Harri Gwynn, Sheenagh Pugh (3), Meic Stephens, R. S. Thomas (1), J. P. Ward (2), Harri Webb, Gwyn Williams and John Stuart Williams (2). Copies of poems are enclosed with some letters.

Correspondence, 1981-2000, mainly relating to reviews and articles intended for publication in the Anglo-Welsh Review, and to the Welsh Arts Council’s withdrawal of funding in 1987 and subsequent closure of the publication in 1988. The file includes letters to Greg Hill and others from Arthur Giardelli (3); Bim Giardelli (1); Glyn Jones (1); Anne Stevenson (3); Tony Conran (2); Jeremy Hooker (9); Desmond Slay (1); Meic Stephens (4); Freda Walters (3); Tony Curtis (1); John Davies (1); Raymond Garlick (2); Peter Dale (1); David Annwn (1); Ann Hallam (1); Tony Bianchi (1); Gillian Clarke (1); and Steve Griffiths (1). Also enclosed are cuttings of obituaries for the writer and historian Gwyn Jones, written by Desmond Slay and Meic Stephens respectively (1999); and a copy of a cutting from the Western Mail, reporting on the closure of the Anglo-Welsh Review and the launch of the New Welsh Review (1987).

Includes letters from Alun Llewellyn (10); Désirée Hirst (3); Rosamund Stanhope (6); Meic Stephens (33); Raymond Garlick (5); Robert Morgan (7); Cecil Price (14); A. G. Prys-Jones (5); Terry Measham (4); Raymond Moore; Jane McCormick (5); Neville Masterman (4); Don McKay (4); Ralph Maud (2); Roy Burnett (7); Glyn Jones (5); Norman Iles (4); Roy Thomas (5); Moira Dearnley (5); Andrew McNeillie (3); Peter Thomas (7); Jeremy Hooker (9); Alison Bielski (3); Leonard Clark (4); Dora Polk (4); Kyffin Williams (5, including a manuscript of part of his article 'An artist in Welsh Patagonia', published in The Anglo-Welsh Review, no. 42); Dannie Abse; Tony Curtis (6); Elwyn Davies (5); Alan Perry (3); A. H. Dodd (2); John Stuart Williams (5); John Alun Davies (3); John Tripp (4); Ray Howard-Jones (2); Leslie Norris (2); Stephen L. I. Pettit (3); Harold P. Collins; Peter Finch (4); Ronald Lowe (2); R. George Thomas (3); and Sam Adams (4).

Includes letters from Neville Masterman (12); Glyn Jones (13); Jeremy Hooker (8); Sam Adams (13); Elwyn Davies (3); Kyffin Williams (5, including a card with an original print of Patagonian rider, signed by him); Cecil Price (10); John Idris Jones (8); Alun Llewellyn (12); Gwynfor Evans (2); Tom Earley; Andrew McNeillie (2); Moira Dearnley (4); Saunders Lewis; Randal Jenkins (5); L. Alun Page (6); Roy Thomas (3); Jane McCormick (3); R. George Thomas (2); Dannie Abse (2); Dora Polk (6); H. P. Collins (4); John Stuart Williams (5); Annemarie Ewing (2); Raymond Garlick (7); Alun Talfan Davies; Ray Howard-Jones (4); Stephen L. I. Pettit (4); Alan Perry; Leslie Norris (7); A. G. Prys-Jones; John Petts (4); R. S. Thomas; John Ackerman (2); Nigel Jenkins (2); Alison Bileski (2); Robert Morgan (3); and Peter Finch (2).

Includes letters from Anthony Conran; Meic Stephens (13); Gillian Clarke (2); A. G. Prys-Jones (6); Gwyn Jones (4); Nigel Jenkins (8); Cary Archard; Emyr Humphreys (2); Raymond Garlick (13); Glyn Jones (3); Dai Smith (3); Jeremy Hooker; Hamish M. Brown; Peter Finch (3); Duncan Bush (2); Deian Hopkin (2); Ray Howard-Jones; Alan Perry (2); Brian Howells; John Davies; Wynn Thomas; and Leslie Norris (addressed to Meic Stephens, containing amendments to the entry on Leslie Norris for the Companion to the literature of Wales).

Includes letters from Raymond Garlick (4); Cary Archard; Emyr Humphreys; Cecil Price; Kay Harris (7); Gwyn O. Jones; Ruth Bidgood (3); Glyn Jones (4); Sam Adams (2); Dora Polk (2); Brian Keeble (2); John Davies (4); Jeremy Hooker; Greg Hill (2); and Belinda Humfrey.

Includes letters from Alun Llewellyn; Don Dale-Jones (2); Glyn Jones (3); Raymond Garlick (5); John Davies (2); Brian Howells; Ruth Bidgood (4); Wynn Thomas; Dora Polk; Belinda Humfrey; and Jeremy Hooker (2).

Includes letters from Leslie Norris (2); Ruth Bidgood (3); Meic Stephens (3); Raymond Garlick (5); Dora Polk (2); Gillian Clarke; Gwyn O. Jones; Nigel Jenkins; Jeremy Hooker (2); and John Davies (2).

Includes letters from John Trice (2); Roy Thomas; Raymond Garlick (6); Richard Livsey; Leslie Norris; Jeremy Hooker (2); John Davies (3); and Ruth Bidgood (3).

Includes letters from Sam Adams (3, including a typescript copy of the poem 'The Maesglas Marciano', i.m. Dick Richardson 1934-1999'); Richard Livsey; Ruth Bidgood (3); Jeremy Hooker (2); Raymond Garlick (4); John Trice; and Gloria Evans Davies.