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David Jones (Artist and Writer) Papers File
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Part I

The file comprises an early manuscript draft of Part I, numbered by David Jones 1-29 and foliated 1-67 in the Library. Folio 1 is a list of sources used directly and folio 2 is a map. The file also includes a conversion table with comments by Daniel Huws, NLW (2 ff.), and a cover.

Part III

The file comprises an early manuscript draft of Part III 'Star-light order', numbered by David Jones 57-118 and foliated 1-172 in the Library. The file also includes a cover.

Part II

The file comprises an early manuscript draft of Part II, numbered by David Jones 31-56 and foliated 1-54 in the Library. The file also includes a conversion table with comments by Daniel Huws, NLW (1 f.), and a cover.

Part V

The file comprises an early manuscript draft of Part V 'Greatcoats folded', numbered by David Jones 179-208/216 and foliated 1-260, 258-260, 261-300 in the Library. The file also includes a conversion table with comments by P.W. Davies, NLW (5 ff.), and a cover.

Part IV

The file comprises an early manuscript draft of Part IV 'Kept Sally port and Countermure', numbered by David Jones 119-178 and foliated 1-22, 24-28 (2), 29-66 (2), 67-162 in the Library. The file also includes a conversion table with comments by Daniel Huws, NLW (2 ff.), and a cover.

Part VI

The file comprises an early manuscript draft of Part VI 'Pavilions and Captains of Fifty', numbered by David Jones 209-233 and foliated 1, 3-64 in the Library. The file is marked 'AB text' by P. W. Davies, NLW,and also includes a cover.

Part VII

The file comprises an early manuscript draft of Part VII 'Invenimus eam in Campis silvae', numbered by David Jones 234-281/283 and foliated 1-109 (2), 110-172, 174-226 in the Library. The file also includes a cover.

Dedication, preface and prologue

The file comprises manuscripts of a dedication (1 f.); a preface numbered by David Jones I-XVI, with an index to the typesetting signs used by him (18 ff.); and a prologue numbered by David Jones 238-9, 247-9, 259-60, 264, 268-9 (11 ff.). There are sketches by David Jones of a girl's face (f. 22v) and of a soldier's face (f. 28v). Also included are notes on the final manuscript draft by Harman Grisewood and Daniel Huws (f. i-iv).

Part I

The file comprises the final manuscript draft of Part I, 'Who have no doubts or fears / The many men so beautiful' numbered by David Jones 1-6, 6a, 7-14. Pages numbered 11-14 are typescript, originally numbered 19-22.

Part II

The file comprises a typescript draft with manuscript corrections of Part II, 'Chambers go off, corporals stay' numbered 23-39. The final page, numbered 39 by David Jones, is a manuscript.

Part III

The file comprises a final manuscript draft of Part III, 'Starlight Order' numbered 57-68, 68-70, 72-90, 90a, 91-94, 94a, 95-97 by David Jones.

Part IV

The file comprises a final manuscript draft of Part IV 'King Pellam's Launde' numbered 119-129, 129-131, 131 cont, 132-149, 149 i-iii, 150-177 by David Jones.

Part V

The file comprises a final manuscript draft of Part V 'Tin hats for white knights' numbered 179-181, 181 cont., 182-183, 183a, 184-5, 185a-b, 186-9, 191-3, 193a, 194, 194a, 195, 196-211, 211 cont., 212-8 by David Jones. There are a few sketches by David Jones, including a sketch of a soldier on page 218.

Part VI

The file comprises a final manuscript draft of Part VI 'Pavilions and Captians of fifty' numbered 209-216, 216a, 216b, 217-232, 234-5 by David Jones.

Part VII

The file comprises a final manuscript draft of Part VII 'The five unmistakable marks' numbered 234-7, 240-6, 250-9, 261-3, 265-7, 270-280, 280 a-d, 281 by David Jones. The file includes a few sketches of women by David Jones, on page 252 and 265. Page 281 is signed 'at Pigotts Aug 18 1932'.

Notes

The file comprises a final manuscript draft of the notes to Parts I-VII with considerable re-working. The surviving typescript of the notes while very close to this manuscript, diverges at a few points. Probably a clean manuscript copy came between this and the typescript. Numbered by David Jones Part I 1-3; Part II 1; Part III 1-21 (plus 2 ff. 'note 40 part III') Part IV 1-30; Part V 1-14 (plus 1 f. supplement to note 98); Part VI 1-5; Part VII 1-13.

Fragments

The file comprises fragments of letters, sketches etc. taken from the In Parenthesis drafts. They include incomplete letters written from Brockley in 1933 to Helen [Ede], a note by David Jones certifying to his illness, a note written from a hotel in Sidmouth, and five sketches.

Early typescript

The file comprises an early typescript draft of Part I 'All Men, children and upwards', pp. 1-18, 39, with manuscript revisions by David Jones. These typescripts are later than any of the manuscript drafts and were rejected from the 1932 draft whilst pp. 19-38 of the typescripts were retained (see LP2/2 and LP2/3).

Title, map and dedication

The file comprises carbon typescripts of the title pages and dedication with some revision, 1937, a later typescript version of the dedication, a colourful manuscript map of the trenches, and an index to the typesetting signs used by David Jones. There is a note on f. 1 by René Hague referring to the numbering of the Notes.

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