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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 including emails, letters and cards between Gwyneth Lewis, friends, agents, publishers, academics, other writers, universities, festival organisers, broadcasters, readers of her work and members of her family concerning personal, social and literary matters including the writing, quality, impact, publication and performance of her work, her research (notably on birdsong, genetics and physics), her collaborations with others, depression, college fellowships, her life at Stanford, health insurance in the USA, and her status as a former National Poet of Wales, with related press cuttings and publicity material for literary events, as well as publishers’ proofs of ‘A Hospital Odyssey’ with manuscript emendations by Gwyneth Lewis, a typescript copy of an introductory address given by her at a poetry reading by Paul Muldoon, manuscript notes and personal memoranda by her, photographs (mostly printed from emails) relating to her family and work, menus of meals held in honour of Gwyneth Lewis and others, and a typescript draft of the poem ‘Roe vs Wade’ by C.K. Williams. The paper on which some of the emails are printed comprises: documents relating to health insurance in the USA; and a completed form relating to a submission for the Arts and Business Cymru Awards on behalf of a youth arts project.