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Proofs of the first edition of Raymond Garlick, An Introduction to Anglo-Welsh Literature (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1970), used by the author as copy for the second edition, published 1972.
Each folio consists of two pages printed side-by-side, comprising proofs of the title page and pp. 1-97 (ff. 4-52). These are preceded by a new typescript prologue, dated May 1972 (ff. 1-3) and followed by an author’s note (pasted in on f. 53). Minor corrections and emendations have been supplied by the author in red and black ink; more substantial alterations and additions to the text have been supplied in typescript as paste overs or as paper flaps attached to page margins (ff. 8, 10-11, 13, 28-30, 32, 34, 39, 42, 50).

Corrected galley proofs, [1972], of Raymond Garlick, A Sense of Time: Poems and Antipoems, 1969-1972 (Llandysul, 1972).
The volume contains minor emendations in the hand of the author. Five verses for the poem 'Acclamation' have been crossed through (f. 21) and are omitted from the published volume.

A volume in the hand of Raymond Garlick containing manuscript drafts, together with a few pasted-in typescripts, of nineteen poems, dated 2 January 1971-26 April 1972.
Six of the poems were published in Poetry Wales, Planet and Poems '73, while 'Acclamation' (ff. 1-2, 3, 4-6, 7-8, 9-14 (rectos only), 24 recto-verso) was broadcast on BBC Radio on 24 February 1972. Thirteen of the poems, including 'Documentary' (ff. 16-22, rectos only) and a revised version of 'Acclamation', were included in Raymond Garlick, A Sense of Time: Poems and Antipoems 1969-1972 (Llandysul, 1972). Five poems are apparently unpublished. Also included are two letters from Meic Stephens, Welsh Arts Council, 31 December 1970 and 18 February 1971, concerning 'Acclamation' (pasted in inside the front cover and on f. 15 respectively). A copy of Dom Julian Stonor, Six Welsh Martyrs (London: Salesian Press, 1961) has been pasted in inside the back cover.

A notebook, 1970-[?1972], in the hand of Raymond Garlick containing manuscript drafts of articles and a letter, 1970-[?1972] (ff. 1-18, 30-35) and some seven poems, dated January-March 1971 (ff. 19 verso-20, 22 verso-29).
Four of the poems were published in Poetry Wales and were included in Raymond Garlick, A Sense of Time: Poems and Antipoems 1969-1972 (Llandysul, 1972); while 'Dial-a-Panegyric' (ff. 22 verso-23) was submitted to the Welsh Arts Council's Dial-a-Poem scheme. The articles are 'A Short Walk in the Desert' (ff. 1-9), published in Planet, 4 (February/March 1971), 28-33, and 'Contempt' (ff. 30-35), published, in Welsh, as 'Dirmyg' in Barn, 112 (February 1972), 90-91, and reviews of Donald Attwater, A Cell of Good Living: The Life, Works and Opinions of Eric Gill (1969) (ff. 9 verso-13), published in The Anglo-Welsh Review, 19 (Spring 1971), 300-302, and of Brynmor Jones, A Bibliography of Anglo-Welsh Literature 1900-1965 (ff. 13 verso-17), published in Poetry Wales, 6.3 (Winter 1970), 56-59. The volume also includes a list of his poems published since 1968 (ff. 18 verso-19). A cutting of Garlick's letter published in the Welsh Nation, November 1970 (f. 17 verso) and a typescript of 'Dial-a-Panegyric' (f. 22 verso) have been pasted into the volume.

A volume in the hand of Raymond Garlick containing drafts of twenty-one poems, dated March-December 1970.
Thirteen of the poems are noted as having been published in various periodicals, mainly Poetry Wales. Seventeen of the poems were included in Raymond Garlick, A Sense of Time: Poems and Antipoems 1969-1972 (Llandysul, 1972); the remaining four poems are possibly unpublished.

A volume in the hand of Raymond Garlick containing drafts of some sixteen poems, dated April 1969-January 1970.
Eight of the poems are noted as having been published in Poetry Wales, two in Akros and one in Clw. Ten of the poems were included in Raymond Garlick, A Sense of Time: Poems and Antipoems 1969-1972 (Llandysul, 1972). Four poems are possibly unpublished.

Thirteen letters and postcards, 1950-1961, to Raymond Garlick, mainly concerning articles for Dock Leaves and The Anglo-Welsh Review.
The correspondents are A. W. Wade-Evans, 1955-1959 (ff. 1-4), John Cowper Powys, 5 March 1961 (ff. 5-6), D. J. Williams, Fishguard, 1950-1957 (ff. 7-13; in English and Welsh), and Huw Menai [Williams], 3 October 1951 (f. 14).

Diary of Raymond Garlick, Blaenau Ffestiniog, for 1957, with two days to a page, containing entries for 27 December 1956-31 December 1957 (pp. 4-215), mostly concerning personal and family matters, his writing and broadcasting, teaching at Ffestiniog County School and his activities in the Catholic Church.
There are references throughout to Garlick's literary and other friends, most notably John Cowper Powys and his wife Phyllis Playter, including preparations for a radio broadcast on Powys in which Garlick participated (pp. 4-150 passim, 183, 186-187). Among the school pupils mentioned are Grey Evans (the actor), who, with his father, accompanied Garlick on an Easter trip to Rome (pp. 8, 44, 46, 67-72, 152), and former pupil Bruce [Griffiths] (p. 11). Incidents recounted include a row with the artist Frederick Konekamp (p. 45), and Dyfnallt Morgan winning the crown at the National Eisteddfod, with Aneirin Talfan [Davies]'s comments on the Gorsedd (p. 131). The family briefly took in as a lodger Susan Russell, Viscountess Amberley, the daughter of the poet Vachel Lindsay and estranged wife of Bertrand Russell's son (pp. 183-199 passim). The volume contains fair copies of parts of three poems, comprising the first verse of 'Monsignor Tudor' (p. 95), four verses of 'Therapy' (p. 101) and a prayer, 'Heart of Jesus, in you I place…' (p. 144); 'Monsignor Tudor' was collected in A Sense of Europe: Collected Poems 1954-1968 (Llandysul, 1968), p. 85. The volume also contains various cuttings, memoranda and accounts (pp. 1, 3, 125, 220-237 and inside back cover).

Working sheets, 1951-[1955], of the poems 'Requiem for a Poet' and 'The City' by Raymond Garlick.
They comprise typescript and manuscript drafts, 1951-[1953], of Requiem for a Poet (Pembroke Dock, [1953]) (ff. 1-29), including a fair typescript copy, lacking the Offertorium, [1953] (ff. 18-29); and manuscript verses and a heavily emended typescript draft of 'The City', [1955] (ff. 30-35). This was published in Y Ddinas, June 1955, p. 14, and was later incorporated into the poem Blaenau Observed ([n.p.], [1956]). Also included is a covering letter, 12 January 1957, from Raymond Garlick, Blaenau Ffestiniog, to the National Library of Wales (f. i).

Diary of Raymond Garlick, Blaenau Ffestiniog, for 1956, with one day to a page, containing entries for 1 January-3 May (ff. 2-62 verso), with occasional scattered entries thereafter, mostly concerning personal and family matters, his writing and broadcasting, teaching at Ffestiniog County School and his activities in the Catholic Church.
There are references throughout to Garlick's literary and other friends, most notably John Cowper Powys and his wife Phyllis Playter (ff. 3-27 verso passim, 39 verso, 42 verso, 53, 55, 59 verso, 151 recto-verso, 158 verso). Among the school pupils mentioned are the lexicographer Bruce Griffiths (ff. 7, 33 verso) and the actor Grey Evans (f. 16 verso). The volume contains drafts and fair copies of several poems, including thirteen stanzas of 'Blaenau Observed', the poem for radio, transmitted 14 June (ff. 36, 52 verso, 53 verso); the unfinished 'Octave of a sonnet on the Scourging of Our Lord' (f. 44 verso); the sonnets 'The Crowning with Thorns' (f. 45 verso), 'The October Risings' (f. 153) and 'The November Suppressions' (ff. 155 verso, 158); eleven stanzas of a poem concerning a pilgrimage to Lourdes (ff. 12 verso, 13 verso-14 verso); and a single verse (f. 56 verso). 'Blaenau Observed' was published as a pamphlet in 1956, reprinted by the Dock Leaves Press in 1957 and was included in A Sense of Europe: Collected Poems 1954-1968 (Llandysul, 1968); 'The November Suppressions' was published in The Welsh Nation, 10 November 1956, p. 1 (see cutting on f. 158).

A notebook containing a diary by Raymond Garlick, 24 July-17 August 1950, recording his pilgrimage with his wife Elin from Wales to Rome, via France and Italy, during the Holy Year of 1950 (ff. 3-31, rectos only). The couple travelled mainly by hitch-hiking.
Garlick also collected stamps and signatures from various religious houses and churches on the route for an 'Ecclesiastical Passport' (ff. 86-90 verso, inverted text). Pasted into the volume are letters of introduction from the Bishop of Menevia and the Garlicks' parish priest in Pembroke Dock (inside front and back covers). Also included is a draft of Garlick's editorial for Dock Leaves, No. 3 (Michaelmas 1950), 1-5, drawing on his travels to give his impressions of France and Italy (ff. 43-51). Miscellaneous items of ephemera found loose in the volume have been tipped in on empty leaves (ff. 32-38); these relate to the pilgrimage, except for two receipts from a visit to Spain in August 1951 (ff. 37-38).