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The file comprises two typescript copies of a review of The Anathemata by Anne Symonds which was broadcast by the BBC on a programme entitled 'What I am reading now' on 25 May 1953, and also a typescript copy of a review written and read by Anne Symonds broadcast on 22 December 1952, with associated correspondence.

The file comprises a short typescript commentary on Parts I and VII of The Anathemata, possibly relating to LA5/10. The author's name is not noted. David Jones has written 'early version' and other comments on the typescript.

The file comprises a handwritten review which is unsigned.

The series comprises material for A Commentary on The Anathemata of David Jones by René Hague, published by Christopher Skelton in 1977. There are typescript drafts of the Commentary with manuscript comments by David Jones, and related correspondence.

The file includes letters between Colin Wilcockson and René Hague about The Anathemata, 1977, and especially about the 'Merton Commentary' - a commentary by William Curtis-Hayward on The Anathemata, which together with some letters from David Jones to William Curtis-Hayward were at Merton College, Oxford. The file includes copies of the six letters written by David Jones to William Hayward between December 1957 and July 1961, later published, with an introduction by Colin Wilcockson as David Jones, Letters to William Hayward, edited by Colin Wilcockson (London: Agenda Editions, 1979). There is also a letter to René Hague from 'Helen', and an article on 'The Break' by Colin Wilcockson.

The file comprises carbon copies of René Hague's typescript notes for his Commentary, with some additional manuscript notes in his hand.

The file comprises numerous manuscript drafts of 'Welsh Poetry' (see Epoch and Artist, pp. 56-65), a review of, or rather an article arising from, The Burning Tree by Gwyn Williams (London, 1956).

The file comprises three manuscript pages of a writing in David Jones's hand concerning the nature of art and of the eucharist ('The Xtian religion is committed to signs....').

The file comprises an early manuscript draft of 'Art and Sacrament', most of which was re-written for the text as it was published.

The file comprises a manuscript draft of 'The Arthurian Legend' which appeared in The Tablet, 25th December 1948, as a review of Arthurian Torso by Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis.

The file comprises a manuscript draft of an article about Eric Gill, possibly relating to one of the two articles published in Epoch and Artist on 'Eric Gill as Sculptor' and 'Eric Gill, an Appreciation', which were originally published in 1940 and 1941. Alternatively it may be for a radio broadcast by David Jones on Eric Gill produced by Douglas Cleverdon.

The file comprises miscellaneous manuscript drafts of writings published in Epoch and Artist. There are drafts of 'The Viae' (f. 1), 'Eric Gill' (ff. 2-3, drafts of the note on p. 302), 'Art and Sacrament' (ff. 4-6, includes a version of the poem on p. 179 slightly different to the printed text), 'The Heritage of Early Britain (f. 7-8), 'Abstract Art' (f. 9) and 'Wales and the Crown' (ff. 10-13).

The file comprises manuscript drafts of writings principally relating to art. Many of these drafts appear to be of letters to private correspondents, but there are also drafts of 'Use and Sign', 'A Christmas Message' and 'Notes on the 1930s' (see The Dying Gaul), drafts of 'Utile', 'Autobiographical talk' and 'Religion and the muses' (see Epoch and Artist) and possibly of other published writings. There are two drafts concerning James Joyce and Celtic art.

The series comprises a copy of the articles for the printers, proofs, corrections, correspondence, publishers agreement and reviews.

The file comprises page proofs of Epoch and Artist (which do not make up one complete set), and the dust jacket designed by David Jones.

The file comprises the publisher's agreement between David Jones and Faber and Faber, dated 31 July 1958, for a work provisionally entitled 'Selected Essays' which became Epoch and Artist.

The group contains manuscript and typescript drafts and galley proofs of each of the poems, and in some cases broadcast scripts, or galley proofs of earlier publication in magazines. LS10 contains material relating to all of the poems.

The series comprises three files of manuscript drafts.

The file comprises a manuscript draft of 'A, a, a, Domine Deus' (this draft begins with a passage subsequently excluded from the text of the poem; see LS1/1), two manuscript copies of the poem (one incomplete), a copy (xerox copy of manuscript) of that part of the poem published in Epoch and Artist (p. 179, this copy appears to have been intended to serve as printer's copy) and drafts of a letter to 'Eric', one dated 2 Nov. 1966, containing 'the eighty words which, should you wish, can be added to the so-called poem or fragment as already printed' (i.e. to that part of the poem published in Epoch and Artist) and showing how the poem is to be set out on the page.

The file comprises two manuscript copies of 'A, a, a, Domine Deus' and a copy (xerox copy of manuscript) of that part of the poem added in 1966 (see LS1/2). f. 2 is dated by David Jones 'c. 1938, '66 & 71'.