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Material relating to Wales: The Imagined Nation, edited by Tony Curtis and published by Poetry Wales Press in 1986 (see, for example: https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Wales_the_Imagined_Nation.html?id=N3pnAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y).
The material includes:
Letters to/from Tony Curtis and prospective contributors to the volume and letters to Tony Curtis from Mick Felton of Poetry Wales
Contributed essays and thumbnail biographies of contributors
Poetry Wales Press booklet detailing new publications
Letter to contributors from Tony Curtis
Press cuttings
Photocopied material from printed sources, including poetry
Draft outline/contents of the volume

Material relating to the compilation and publication of The Art of Seamus Heaney, edited by Tony Curtis and originally published by Poetry Wales Press in 1982, with an introduction by Curtis (see, for example: https://www.serenbooks.com/product/the-art-of-seamus-heaney-paperback/), with references also to later editions of the publication. The material comprises: letters, 1988-1995, to Tony Curtis from Seamus Heaney (two addressed from Cambridge, Massachusetts (see note on Seamus Heaney, below), the remainder addressed from Heaney's home in Dublin), together with photocopied letter from Heaney to Professor Patrick Crotty, with brief note from Heaney to Curtis, and photocopied text of Seamus Heaney's play 'Munro'; letters, 1981-1993 and undated, to Tony Curtis from contributors/potential contributors to The Art of Seamus Heaney, including Professor Edna Longley, Dr Philip Hobsbaum, Professor Ciarán Carson, Professor Christopher Ricks, Professor Barbara Hardy, Douglas Dunn, Anne Stevenson, Bernard O'Donoghue, Peter Fallon, Professor Helen Vendler, Professor Patrick Crotty, Professor Macha Rosenthal, Professor Dick Davis, David (Annwn) Jones and Professor Blake Morrison; letter, 1981, to Tony Curtis from potential publishers Faber and Faber and, 1982, 1984-1985, from eventual publishers Poetry Wales Press; letters, 1984-1985, from Tony Curtis to potential contributors Professor Helen Vendler, Professor Christopher Ricks and Professor Jeremy Hooker and to Poetry Wales Press; research material relating to Seamus Heaney; photocopied acknowledgements, introduction and biographical note on Tony Curtis taken from The Art of Seamus Heaney; and Poetry Wales Press leaflet detailing press publications, including those by, or which include contributions by, Tony Curtis.

Not all correspondents are indexed: for access to full range of correspondents, it is recommended that this section of the archive is requested for viewing.

See also August 2002 and April 2016 papers under heading Goddard College.

Letters, 1974-1988, to John Pikoulis from publishing companies, the correspondence largely relating to the publication of Pikoulis's Alun Lewis: A Miscellany of his Writings (Poetry Wales Press, 1982) and Alun Lewis: A Life (Poetry Wales Press, 1984) and to articles contributed by Pikoulis to literary publications. Correspondents comprise: Poetry Wales magazine and Poetry Wales Press/Seren Books, the representative correspondents being Sam Adams (Poetry Wales magazine), Cary Archard (Poetry Wales magazine and Poetry Wales Press) and Mike Felton (Poetry Wales Press and Seren Books); Peter Leek of publishers George Allen & Unwin Ltd (together with a rough draft of a report by John Pikoulis on John Parker's submitted typescript of his biography and photocopied texts of poetical works (one signed) by Alun Lewis); Philip Unwin, formerly of George Allen & Unwin publishing company (1981), and Philip Unwin's widow, Evelyn Unwin (together with rough manuscript notes by John Pikoulis); and Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, New York.

Letters to John Pikoulis largely from those who served with Alun Lewis in the 6th Battalion South Wales Borderers and with post-war organisations related to the 6th Battalion South Wales Borderers, the correspondents comprising: politician and historian Alun Arthur Gwynne Jones, Lord Chalfont (1976-1982); the Regimental Museum of the South Wales Borderers and Monmouthshire Regiment and from the 6th Battalion South Wales Borderers Old Comrades' Association (1977, 1979-1981); poet, novelist and playwright Bernard Gutteridge (1979); Colonel Robin S. Cresswell (1979-1980); [?Humphry] [ ? ] (1980); G. T. Wards (1980); [signature illegible] (1980); Ron Willetts (1980, 1981); John [ ? ] (1980); Jack Aistrop (1980-1981); Major Ollie (O. A.) Evans (1980); the Royal Engineers Corps Library (1980); the High Commission of India (1980); Cliff J. Vivian, Chief Executive of Geest Holdings Ltd, Spalding, Lincolnshire (1980); the Birmingham Post, in relation to Captain William F. (Bill) Perry (for whom, see below) (1980); the Ministry of Defence Army Records Centre (1981); B. S. Hopkins (1981); P. Thomas, Aberfan (1981); Hugh Harries (1981); A. G. Gulliford (1981); the High Commission of Pakistan (1981); E. Thomas, Aberdare (1981); the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (1981); Kathleen E. Ruddock (1981); W. S. Daniels (1981); Captain William F. (Bill) Perry (1981); the Medical Directorate at Army Headquarters, New Delhi (1981); Captain F. E. Elliot of the Ministry of Defence (1983); Dick C. Littleford (1985); Bert Harden (1990 and undated) (together with letter, 1990, to John Pikoulis from Mick Felton of Seren Books); Ian Tibbs (1999); Lieutenant-Colonel Randulph Offley Crewe-Read (undated); and T. Griffiths (undated).

Each envelope marked with name(s) of correspondent(s) and date(s) (if applicable) of correspondence.

Note that some names are referenced in more than one letter.

Alun Lewis's close friend Richard (Dick) Mills, who served with Lewis, is described under Academic and work colleagues of Alun Lewis and academic institutions.