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Correspondence

Letters and cards to Gwyneth Lewis from university and school friends and teaching staff, from her family, from literary and media contacts, and from public officials and private companies, and also a few draft letters written by Gwyneth Lewis herself, concerning personal, social, literary, intellectual, academic, political and family matters, including her published work and her editorial work with Poetry Wales, during her time at Cambridge and in the United States; included in a letter to her parents are typescript copies of three of her poems ('Santes y Ffrog Goch', 'A Dirge for Mrs Davies' and 'Awen Morgannwg') with manuscript annotations.

Correspondence

Letters and cards to Gwyneth Lewis from friends, family, agents, publishers, writers, academics, colleagues and businesses concerning personal, social, family, literary, academic, medical and domestic matters, notably the publication of her poetry and observations relating to her D.Phil. thesis and its possible publication, together with related photographs and press cuttings, as well as a letter and a card from Gwyneth Lewis to her husband, Leighton Denver Davies, and a letter from Roy Davies to BBC Wales staff concerning Gwyneth Lewis’s work in the Factual Programme Department.

Letters to Gwyneth Lewis

Letters and cards to Gwyneth Lewis from friends, family, writers, publishers, broadcasters, festival organisers and businesses concerning personal, social, domestic, family and literary matters, including her published and unpublished poems, her literary career and activities, and sailing classes.

School and university

Papers relating to Gwyneth Lewis’s literary and other activities at school and university, and at eisteddfodau during the same period, including: manuscript and typescript copies of scripts for plays, addresses and recitations, with notes; manuscript poems and notes for poems by Gwyneth Lewis, and her annotated copies of poems by other children, as well as a copy of 'Coffee incognito' by Gabriel Gbadamosi; copies of school event programmes; copies of school newspapers; material relating to the national Urdd eisteddfod, including a letter of adjudication concerning a poem by Gwyneth Lewis, a certificate awarded to her for recitation, press cuttings, songs and a poem by other pupils, and a programme; a typescript copy of a play script by Emyr Edwards; press cuttings concerning literary matters, especially competitions in which Gwyneth Lewis was involved; theatre and ballet programmes; school and Brownie ephemera; primary and secondary school work by Gwyneth Lewis; copies of her examination certificates; letters to her from family, friends, colleagues and others concerning personal, student and work matters, and other subjects of interest to her; material relating to her studies at Cambridge university, including entrance examination papers, letters to her from Girton College concerning her application and acceptance to read English, letters of reference for her from Girton; student magazines, a student’s guide to Girton College, college newsletters, a copy of an academic literary article annotated by Gwyneth Lewis, and other student ephemera; and material relating to her Harkness Fellowship at Columbia University, including letters, an application form and tax forms.