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Miscellaneous letters and papers Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953 -- Death and burial.
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Letters relating to Dylan Thomas's funeral

Two letters, 16-18 November 1953, from [the Rev.] S[ydney] B[owen] Williams, Vicar of St Martins, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, to Dr [Daniel] Jones, concerning arrangements for Dylan Thomas's funeral. Thomas died in New York on 9 November 1953 and would be buried in Laugharne on 24 November.

Williams, S. B. (Sydney Bowen), 1874 or 1875-1953

Vernon Watkins letters to John Lehmann

Two typescript letters, 1953-1955, from Vernon Watkins, Pennard, to poet and publisher John Lehmann, the first, 13 November 1953, concerning the death of Watkins's close friend Dylan Thomas four days earlier (f. 46), the second, 8 August 1955, concerning his foreword to Dylan Thomas, Adventures in the Skin Trade (London, 1955) (f. 47).

Watkins, Vernon Phillips, 1906-1967