Papers, 1999-2001, mostly orders regarding the R. S. Thomas commemorative mug offer with New Welsh Review subscription. The file also contains related correspondence, including two letters from the designer of the mug, Ogwyn Davies, together with his original drawings.
Includes letters from Meic Stephens (18); Dannie Abse (7); Arthur Giardelli (2); Jeffrey Steele (5); George Ewart Evans; Susan Glyn (2); Dora Polk (5); John Stuart Williams (7); Robert Shaw (2); R. S. Thomas; John Pook (3, including poems by him); Tony Curtis; Alun Llewellyn (16); Glyn Jones (2); Thomas Taig (3); H. P. Collins (4); Neville Masterman (7); John Idris Jones (8); Cecil Price (17); Kent Thompson (2); Bryn Griffiths (4); Ian Parrott (4); Bernard Lloyd (4); R. George Thomas; Howard Sergeant (2); Kay Harris; John Alun Davies (2); Brian Way (3); Alison Bielski; Vera Rich (copy); Randal Jenkins (5); Ray Howard-Jones; Raymond Garlick (4); David Gallon (4); Leslie Norris (2); John Snelling; Tom Earley; David Parry; Vernon Watkins; John Ward (3); A. G. Prys-Jones (3); Ralph Salisbury (2); Gerald Morgan; Joseph P. Clancy; Annemarie Towner (2); Robert Morgan; Eiluned Lewis (3); and Harri Webb (copy).
Includes letters from Robert Morgan (9); Rosamund Stanhope (5); John Idris Jones (8); Leslie Norris (7); Alison Bielski (6); Alun Llewellyn (10); Meic Stephens (26); Ray Howard-Jones (19); Roy Thomas (4); Cecil Price (16); Glyn Jones (8); R. S. Thomas (4); Thomas Taig (2); John Stuart Williams (6); A. F. Leighton Thomas (11); John Trice; Neville Masterman (7); Philip Larkin; Peter Thomas (4); Eryl Davies (3); L. Alun Page (2); A. G. Prys-Jones (5); Elwyn Davies (5); Andrew Waterman (4); Alun Llywelyn-Williams (3); Kent Thompson; Leonard Clark (4); Tony Curtis (5); Raymond Garlick (6); Kyffin Williams; Peter Finch; H. P. Collins; Raymond Moore (6); Dora Polk (2); Anthony Steel; Randal Jenkins; Jeremy Hooker (3); Ellen Tifft; Glanmor Williams (2); R. George Thomas; and Norman Schwenk (2).
Includes letters from Neville Masterman (12); Glyn Jones (13); Jeremy Hooker (8); Sam Adams (13); Elwyn Davies (3); Kyffin Williams (5, including a card with an original print of Patagonian rider, signed by him); Cecil Price (10); John Idris Jones (8); Alun Llewellyn (12); Gwynfor Evans (2); Tom Earley; Andrew McNeillie (2); Moira Dearnley (4); Saunders Lewis; Randal Jenkins (5); L. Alun Page (6); Roy Thomas (3); Jane McCormick (3); R. George Thomas (2); Dannie Abse (2); Dora Polk (6); H. P. Collins (4); John Stuart Williams (5); Annemarie Ewing (2); Raymond Garlick (7); Alun Talfan Davies; Ray Howard-Jones (4); Stephen L. I. Pettit (4); Alan Perry; Leslie Norris (7); A. G. Prys-Jones; John Petts (4); R. S. Thomas; John Ackerman (2); Nigel Jenkins (2); Alison Bileski (2); Robert Morgan (3); and Peter Finch (2).
Includes letters from Alun Llewellyn (4); Glyn Jones (4); Sam Adams (8); Leslie Norris (4); John Ackerman (4); Moira Dearnley (3); Peter Abbs (6); Neville Masterman (5); L. Alun Page (3); John Tripp (8); John Petts; R. George Thomas (2); Andrew McNeillie; Robert Morgan (9); Meic Stephens (12); Roy Thomas (6); Alison Bielski (4); Jeremy Hooker (7); J. P. Ward (4); Arthur Giardelli (5); Belinda Humfrey (11); Rosamund Stanhope (2); Randal Jenkins (3); H. P. Collins (5); George Ewart Evans (2); Gillian Clarke (8); Raymond Garlick (2); John Stuart Williams (8); Lawrence W. Hockey (2); Tony Curtis (3); Désirée Hirst (2); Graham Allen; Anthony Conran (2); R. S. Thomas; A. G. Prys-Jones (4); and Ray Howard-Jones.
Includes letters from Meic Stephens (36); Leslie Norris (3); Gillian Clarke (7); Jeremy Hooker (4); Sam Adams (3); Ruth Bidgood (7); Jon Dressel (6); Tony Bianchi (7); Gerard Casey (4); John Davies; Robin Gwyndaf; Raymond Garlick (3); Sally Roberts Jones (5); J. P. Ward (5); R. S. Thomas (2); Dannie Abse; Glyn Jones (4); John Tripp (4); A. G. Prys-Jones (6, including a letter to J. P. Ward); Prys Morgan (3); Walford Davies (4); Francis Jones (3); Dora Polk (2); Cary Archard (3); and Alison Bielski.
The file comprises twenty-one letters to Sam Adams from Douglas Cleverdon (2), Rhys Davies (1), Seamus Heaney (1), Richard Hughes (3), Emyr Humphreys (2), Gwyn Jones (2), Moelwyn Merchant (2), Conor Cruise O'Brien (1), Alun Richards (3), R. S. Thomas (1), Gwyn Thomas (2), and Ted Walker (1). The correspondence relates to contributions to Poetry Wales and to other publications by Sam Adams.
Letters to Sam Adams from Robert Minhinnick (4), R.S. Thomas (2) and Gillian Clarke (2) concerning poems to be published in Poetry Wales and the Anglo-Welsh Review, as well as social matters, including copies of poems by Gillian Clarke, together with a letter from Anthony Conran concerning a proposed anthology to be edited by Gwilym Rees Hughes.
Letters to Sam Adams from John Ormond (4) concerning personal matters, together with copies of two poems by Ormond, and a copy of a BBC transcript of his interview with R.S. Thomas, with a manuscript review of the broadcast interview in the hand of Adams.
Ymhlith y gohebwyr mae Thomas Parry (11); Iorwerth Peate (3); Kate Roberts (3); J. E. Caerwyn Williams (1); John Rowlands (1); John Stoddart (2); Gwyn Thomas (3); Ned Thomas (1); R. S. Thomas (2); Urien Wiliam (1); R. Bryn Williams (1); a Rhydwen Williams (2).
Ymhlith y gohebwyr mae Thomas Parry (12); Iorwerth Peate (8); Caradog Prichard (4); Eigra Lewis Roberts (1); Kate Roberts (20); Wyn Roberts (1); John Rowlands (1); Ben Bowen Thomas (4); Gwyn Thomas (3); Ned Thomas (2); ac R. S. Thomas (1).
Copi o draethawd ymchwil 'Gororau'r Iaith: R. S. Thomas a'r Traddodiad Llenyddol Cymraeg' a gyflwynwyd gan Dr Jason Walford Davies ar gyfer gradd Ph.D. (Bangor, 2002) ac a gyflwynwyd am Wobr Ymchwil Celtaidd Legonna, 2003.