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Letters to Gwyneth Lewis from her sister, Marian, together with a few from Gwyneth Lewis to Marian Lewis, concerning personal, social, family and other matters during her childhood and student days.

School projects by Gwyneth Lewis, including a folder of her poetry in typescript, as well as a folder, photographs, press cuttings and an audio tape relating to a project on Rhydwen Williams, together with folders and scrapbooks concerning other topics relating to a variety of school subjects.

Correspondence between Gwyneth Lewis, her sister, Marian, her parents and their relatives, the Tanner family, concerning family news during Gwyneth Lewis's stay with the Tanners in Illinois in 1976; also included are letters from friends concerning social matters, and a letter from Gwyneth Lewis to an aunt in Cardiff.

Exercise books and folders containing notes and essays by Gwyneth Lewis on a number of academic subjects including Welsh, English, Music and others, compiled for school and eisteddfod work, as well as diaries compiled by her during an eisteddfod and a trip to Paris, printed notes, and a copy of the British Ballet Organization Bulletin.

Correspondence between Gwyneth Lewis and family, friends, teachers, literary associates, education officials, editors, and representatives of the Urdd concerning personal, social, educational and literary matters, and in particular her success at the Urdd eisteddfod in Barry and her prose and poetry contributions to printed media, together with related notes, forms, postcards, eisteddfod texts, event programmes, music scores, drawings, press cuttings and other ephemera.

Correspondence between Gwyneth Lewis and family, friends, literary associates, banks, and representatives of the Urdd and Gwyneth Lewis’s school and university college concerning personal, social, literary, school, university and domestic matters, notably her success at the Urdd eisteddfod at Llanelwedd, her life at Girton College, Cambridge, and time she spent in Brittany, together with a letter to Cymdeithas y Mabinogi, Cambridge, from the language centre at Nant Gwrtheyrn, and press cuttings, certificates, leaflets, postcards, photographs and other ephemera.

School, Urdd and college work by Gwyneth Lewis on literary themes, including folders, exercise books and notebooks containing manuscript and typescript poems, essays, exercises, projects and notes relating to her own compositions, which were mostly produced as school work or for competitions, as well as Welsh and English literature more generally, together with eisteddfod entry forms and adjudications, press cuttings, a few notes on other school subjects, and some poetry composed by Marian Lewis.

Correspondence and drafts of letters between Gwyneth Lewis and family, friends, teachers, Urdd representatives and literary contacts, as well as letters to her parents, concerning personal, social and artistic matters relating to her childhood, school and university days, including her literary and musical activities in school and in the Urdd, together with related poems, theatre programmes, postcards, certificates, tickets, school notes, vouchers, drawings, music scores, press cuttings, leaflets, posters and other ephemera.

Poetry, prose, research and other work produced by Gwyneth Lewis while at school and in the Urdd, and also during her early days at university.

Letters and cards to Gwyneth Lewis from friends, family, university staff, literary contacts and private companies, and postcards from Gwyneth Lewis to her parents, concerning personal, literary, social, academic, career, family and domestic matters, including her published work, the possibility of publishing a collection of her poetry, her editorial activities with Poetry Wales, her life in Cambridge, her applications for work and courses, and her move to Harvard; a letter from Tom Earley also includes typescript copies of two of his poems.

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.

Notes on a wide range of subjects, mostly relating to Gwyneth Lewis's literary interests and studies, compiled by her while at school and as a college student.

Notebooks compiled by Gwyneth Lewis as a college student and journalist in the United States, comprising notes on language and literature - notably significant literary works, literary theory, philosophical and psychological issues in literature, geology, the German language, musical instruments, exploration, and the whaling history of Nantucket - as well as personal and domestic matters, together with notes for a visit to the American South and for a subsequent report, and a diary of a trip to Israel with related leaflets and press cuttings.

Letters to Gwyneth Lewis from her parents, Gwilym and Eryl Lewis, concerning personal, social, family and other matters, notably her activities with the Urdd, at school, at university at Cambridge and Harvard, and living and working in the United States, together with related press cuttings and a letter from Glamorgan County Council congratulating her on her ‘A’ Level examination results.

Papers relating to Gwyneth Lewis’s literary work in the United States, including: academic typescript essays and manuscript notes written by her for seminars at the New York Institute for the Humanities, as well as photocopies of articles, papers relating to a research grant proposal, and letters sent to her by colleagues; typescript drafts of material written by her for publication, including essays, reviews, an interview with R. S. Thomas, and poems, with manuscript notes, and agreements with publishers; manuscript drafts of essays by her in both English and Welsh about life in New York; a typescript copy of her curriculum vitae, with manuscript notes, together with letters of reference and examination results, copies of her examination certificates, and her application for a Harkness Fellowship; photocopies and press cuttings of published items written by her for journals in the United States, Wales and England; notes, letters, information leaflets, booklets, press cuttings, maps, photographs, postcards and ephemera relating to Danville, Illinois, and in particular to her research for an unmade BBC television programme about Mississippi and Louisiana.

Papers relating to Gwyneth Lewis’s literary and other activities at school and university, and at eisteddfodau during the same period, including: manuscript and typescript copies of scripts for plays, addresses and recitations, with notes; manuscript poems and notes for poems by Gwyneth Lewis, and her annotated copies of poems by other children, as well as a copy of 'Coffee incognito' by Gabriel Gbadamosi; copies of school event programmes; copies of school newspapers; material relating to the national Urdd eisteddfod, including a letter of adjudication concerning a poem by Gwyneth Lewis, a certificate awarded to her for recitation, press cuttings, songs and a poem by other pupils, and a programme; a typescript copy of a play script by Emyr Edwards; press cuttings concerning literary matters, especially competitions in which Gwyneth Lewis was involved; theatre and ballet programmes; school and Brownie ephemera; primary and secondary school work by Gwyneth Lewis; copies of her examination certificates; letters to her from family, friends, colleagues and others concerning personal, student and work matters, and other subjects of interest to her; material relating to her studies at Cambridge university, including entrance examination papers, letters to her from Girton College concerning her application and acceptance to read English, letters of reference for her from Girton; student magazines, a student’s guide to Girton College, college newsletters, a copy of an academic literary article annotated by Gwyneth Lewis, and other student ephemera; and material relating to her Harkness Fellowship at Columbia University, including letters, an application form and tax forms.

Draft manuscript letters and photocopies of letters written by Gwyneth Lewis to family, friends and literary and academic associates concerning personal, social, literary, musical and academic matters relating to her time as a student at Balliol College, Oxford; also included are newsletters of the Oxford Poetry Society and a photocopy of a manuscript review of ‘Mynd lawr i’r nefoedd’ by Menna Elfyn that was written by Gwyneth Lewis for publication.

Letters to Gwyneth Lewis from family, friends, literary associates, universities, and media and insurance companies concerning personal, social, literary, academic, professional and domestic matters, especially her life and work at Harvard and in New York and her travels around the United States, together with a notebook, postcards, press cuttings, photographs, leaflets, theatre programmes, student newsletters and a map of Florence; also included are a typescript transcript and offprint of an interview with Italo Calvino by Ian Thomson, some papers relating to Elin ap Hywel (including a typescript of poems by her, a typescript of poems inspired by her work, and a typescript of a short story dedicated to her), typescripts of poems by others, and some postcards relating to Gwyneth Lewis but sent between her friends.

Letters and cards to Gwyneth Lewis, mostly from the journalist and poet James Fenton concerning personal, social, literary and journalistic matters, especially relating to the Philippines, together with related photographs and manuscript and typescript copies of his poetry; also included are letters and cards to Gwyneth Lewis from other friends concerning personal, social, literary and academic matters, with related photographs.

Papers relating to Gwyneth Lewis’s D.Phil. entitled ‘Eighteenth-century literary forgeries with special reference to the work of Iolo Morganwg’ (submitted to the University of Oxford), comprising manuscript and photocopied drafts, revisions, bibliographic notes, abstracts, essays and extensive notes by her on primary and secondary sources and academic debates relating to literary figures including Edward Williams ('Iolo Morganwg'), Thomas Chatterton, William Henry Ireland, James Macpherson, Thomas Percy and others, with photocopies of related articles and bibliographies, associated press cuttings, an abstract and part of an annotated typescript draft of a Ph.D. thesis by Paul Timothy Baines entitled 'Authenticity and forgery in eighteenth-century Britain' (submitted to the University of Bristol), a letter from Gwyneth Lewis's supervisor concerning the examiners’ report on her thesis, letters from academics concerning her research, manuscript essays on related topics and a typescript dissertation on George Eliot written by Gwyneth Lewis at Cambridge for her first degree in English literature, Oxford and Cambridge University literature concerning the submission of theses, and library letters and forms concerning reading rooms and Gwyneth Lewis's book loans.