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Includes letters from John Petts; L. Alun Page (2); Friedrich Könekamp (4); R. George Thomas (2); Glyn Jones (2); Kyffin Williams (3); and Dyfnallt Morgan (2).

Includes letters from John Petts (2), John Randle, Mike Tooby, Oliver Fairclough, Helen Waters and family members. Also included is a certificate presented to Jonah Jones by the Queen with a medal in commemoration of the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977.

The file comprises letters to David Jones from John Petts, Myra Owen and others of The Arts Council of Great Britain mainly relating to exhibitions in Scotland, at the Tate gallery, the Festival of Britain, CEMA exhibition Wales in Aberystwyth and Swansea (1954), and the exhibition of contemporary Welsh painting and sculpture in Cardiff, Wrexham, Bangor, Aberystwyth and Swansea (1961).

Papers, 1934-1991, of or relating to artist John Petts and which includes correspondence, 1934-1968, from Petts's first wife, writer and artist Brenda Chamberlain, and others, including Alun Lewis, Kyffin Williams, John Piper, Gwynfor Evans, the Golden Cockerel Press and the Golden Grove Book Company, mainly relating to his artistic work; together with artwork by both Petts and Brenda Chamberlain, and biographical notes, [c. 1971], relating to Petts.

Nineteen letters, 1939-1951, from the artist and engraver John Petts (1914-1991) and one, 1951, from his wife Kusha Petts (b. 1921) to Wesley J. Elliss of Aberdaron, chiefly concerned with printing work undertaken by the Caseg Press, together with related accounts.

A letter, 5 May 1968, from the artist John Petts to Eric Letts, engineer, thanking him for advice on metal coatings for a sculpture for a church in south Wales.
The sculpture, hitherto unidentified, is described as a 'steel figure' (f. 168), and may be the figure of the Risen Christ at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in Gorseinon, Swansea.

The file contains a number of letters from John Petts, Peter Petts and Brenda Chamberlain to the Vale family of Bethesda, a collection of greetings cards with drawings by the Petts brothers and Brenda Chamberlain, designed and printed at the Caseg Press, Llanystumdwy, together with copies of Caseg Press Broadsheets numbers 1 and 2.