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Prose works, originally on loose sheets of paper or in exercise books, as follows:. Ff. 1-2, autobiographical notes:. Ff. 3-6, Poetry, a speech delivered in a competition at Loughborough College, 1931:. Ff. 7-10, 'The yet unquiet front' (incomplete), an account of a mine disaster;. Ff. 11-16, 'A letter from the Rhondda', addressed to [?Tom] Buchanan, 1944;. Ff. 17-30, 'A great Welsh poet', an appreciation of Robert Williams Parry;. Ff. 31-42, 'The poetry of W. B. Yeats', 1946;. Ff. 43-51, 'A schoolboy during the Great War' (incomplete);. Ff. 52-73, Diary, 22 Feb.-16 April 1930;. Ff. 74-99, Diary, 1 Jan.-22 Feb. 1948;. Ff. 100-126, exercise book containing a few draft poems and what appear to be two works for radio, 'Home sweet home' and 'Beyond the black tips'. Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 2.

A large notebook containing: an autobiographical note, 1962 (inside top cover); 'Chapter Fourteen' of a work of autobiography, pages numbered 295-322, [1953] (ff. 1-28); reversing book, the beginnings of two novels, 'Mog Malvolio' (inside lower cover and f. 91v and 'Suburban Sonata' (ff. 92v and 93v) and the first draft of 'Entertainment in my time', pages numbered 14-89, 1964 (ff. 53v-91). 93 Ff. See also NLW, Jack Jones MSS for related material. Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 3.

Typescript of a three act play, 'No flowers in Tiger Bay', with a few autograph alterations and corrections. Iv + 138 ff. Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 18.

Cyclostyled typescript of 'No flowers in Tiger Bay', incorporating the alterations and corrections made in NLW MS 20773.

Typescript, with a few autograph corrections in ink, of 'Life begins at seventy', a work of autobiography by Jack Jones (1884-1970). Ii + 283 ff. Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 20.

Minor pieces, comprising: 'Merthyr bookend', 'a verse version of part of the final paragraphs of Off to Philadelphia in the morning', written 1968 (ff. 1-4); 'Come unto me, Poor Iron Man' a short story, a late work. Typescript, with autograph corrections (ff. 5-7); 'Old-timer visits New Town'. The author's reflections (f. 8); an autobiographical piece dated 27 April 1970 (ff. 9-11).

Draft of Glyn Jones's novel, The Island of Apples (London, 1965), with considerable evidence of the author's changes and rearrangement. Probably the last draft before typing. Loose leaves filed on string with final pagination running 1-436.

A notebook described in a recent label on the cover in the author's hand: 'Short Novels. Jan-June 1941. The Alone to the Alone'. Pp. 1-36, Untitled novel. 36-111, Another untitled novel. 111-131, 'Flute'. 131-160, 'The alone to the alone' (pub. London, 1947). The MS contains somewhat less than half the published novel; the latter shows some changes. The author writes an extraordinarily compressed page, seldom correcting even a word. Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 5.

Drafts of 'The Frenchmaster' and 'Before sleep' by Dannie Abse (the former pub. in Poems, Golders Green (London, 1962)) (ff. 1-11); Draft of 'Winter' by A. G. Prys-Jones (ff. 12-13); Drafts of 'With the sea's volubility' and 'Cwmchwefri Rocks' (both pub. in The Beast at the Door (London, 1963)) and 'Disorderly Spring' (pub. in The Colour of Cockcrowing (London, 1966)) by T. H. Jones (ff. 14-19); Three drafts, autograph and typescript, of 'Freshwater West revisited' by Roland Mathias (pub. in Absalom in the Tree (Llandysul, 1971)) (ff. 20-22); 'Kismet' by Huw Menai (f. 23); Twenty poems, mostly uncollected, by Huw Menai. Fair holograph copies. Originally loose leaves mostly dated by decade on the dorse probably by the author recently (1968), [1920s]-[1950s] (ff. 24-46); Draft of sections III and IV of 'Indian Day' (pub. in Ha Ha Among the Trumpets (London, 1945)) and rough and fair drafts of an apparently unpublished poem 'In the days when I could choose', of 20 lines, by Alun Lewis (ff. 47-48); Fair draft of 'Ponies, Twynyrodyn', dated 1965 by Meic Stephens (pub. in Welsh Voices, ed. by Bryn Griffiths (London, 1967)) (ff. 49-50); Fair holograph copies of 'The stone Face', 'Thanks in winter' and 'For T. H. J.' by Harri Webb (all pub. in The Green Desert (Llandysul, 1969)) (ff. 51-54); Fair copy of a sonnet 'Y Wyddfa / The Tomb' by John Cowper Powys, 1954 (f. 55); Fair copy of 'A woman to a man' by Dannie Abse (pub. in Poems Golders Green (London, 1962)) (f. 56); Fair copy of 'Feathers', beginning 'I stoop to gather a seabird's feather' by Vernon Watkins, probably late, not published in any of VW's collections (f. 57).

Ff. 1-73, Drafts of thirteen poems published in 'Scars' (London, 1969), including sixteen successive drafts of 'Aberfan'; two other fragmentary poems;. Ff. 74-75, 'A trip to Crymmych' prose recollection of childhood;. Ff. 76-83, Typescript draft of 'Ianto the Undertaker', a radio play;. Ff. 84-109, Typescript draft with autograph additions and corrections of 'Dream and Voyage', a radio play;. Ff. 110-160, Typescript and autograph draft of a radio play based on the writer's involvement in the 1960 seamen's strike;. Ff. 161-166, Review of 'Agenda': special David Jones number. Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 163.

Cymdeithas Cymru Newydd was conceived by Davies Aberpennar (Pennar Davies) in 1939. It miscarried with the coming of the War. It was to have been a society to bring together Welsh writers, both those writing in Welsh and those writing in English. The present file comprises papers and notes of Davies Aberpennar relating to the society (items 1-7), newspaper cuttings (items 55-76) and letters written to Davies Aberpennar, mostly in response to solicitations for support from those listed below (number of letters in brackets). Aneirin ap Talfan (Davies] (3). Idris Davies. Walter Dowding. H. L. R. Edwards. Thomas Charles Edwards. Ken Etheridge. George Ewart Evans (2). Gwynfor Evans (2). Nigel Heseltine (3). Emyr Humphreys. Dafydd Jenkins. Glyn Jones. Victor Jones. Dai Marcs. Geraint Dyfnallt Owen. T. O. Phillips. R. C. Richards. Keidrych Rhys (11). Dylan Thomas (4). Henry Treece. I. W. Vernon Watkins (2). Alun Llywelyn-Williams (3). Waldo Williams. Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 17.

Pencil drafts with additions and changes and including sections later suppressed, the source of the first typescript drafts, of six of the seven stories in the collection 'The Chosen One' (London, 1967), together with corrected typescript of two of the stories and corrected galley proofs of one. Fo. 1, Letter from Rhys Davies concerning MSS, 1968;. Ff. 2-142, 'The Chosen One';. Ff. 143-187, 'The Little Heiress';. Ff. 188-230, 'I will keep her company';. Ff. 231-245, Galley proofs of the same (?'New Yorker');. Ff. 246-289, 'The Old Adam';. Ff. 290-327, Typescript of the same;. Ff. 328-385, 'Betty Leyshon's marathon';. Ff. 386-414, Typescript of the same;. Ff. 415-449, 'Love kept waiting'. Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 22. For other similar material relating to this volume, see NLW MS 21530D.

Cyclostyled copy of 'Under Milk Wood' used by Meredith Edwards for the first BBC broadcast of the work, 1954. The first published edition shows a few departures from this script.

Ff. 1-50, Drafts and worksheets of 27 poems collected in 'Green Rain' (Llandybie 1967);. Ff. 51-93, Drafts and worksheets of other poems;. Ff. 94-117, Typescript of 'Dic Penderyn', 'a poem for voices' broadcast by the BBC in 1968;. Ff. 118-161, Worksheets for 'Dic Penderyn'. Formerly Welsh Arts Council MSS 31-32.

Ff. 1-22, Drafts and worksheets for 8 poems collected in 'The Dinosaurs' (Cardiff, 1966);. Ff. 23-44, Drafts and worksheets of 14 poems collected in 'The Trophy' (Llandybie, 1967), and two unidentified fragments;. Ff. 45-67, Typescript of 'A lethal kind of love', a play for voices broadcast by the BBC (pub. Ruthin, 1968). Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 33.

Letters written to Raymond Garlick as editor of the magazine 'Dock Leaves' (later 'The Anglo-Welsh Review'), with a few contributions, as below (number of letters in brackets). Ff. 1-5, David Bell (5) 1950-1958;. Ff. 6-14, H. Idris Bell (9), 1951-1954;. Ff. 15-16, Idris Davies (2). 1951;. Fo. 17, Mrs E. A. Davies (mother of Idris) (1), 1954;. Fo. 18, Thomas Jones, CH (1), 1952;. Fo. 19, W. J. Gruffydd (1), n.d. (when he was MP);. Ff. 20-21, T. H. Jones (1 typescript poem 'Rhiannon'), 1960. Fo. 22, David Mathew (1), 1959. Ff. 23-26, Henry Treece (4) .1950-4. Ff. 27-29, Vernon Watkins (3), 1951-4. Ff. 30-52, Huw Menai (9, 14 autograph poems), 1950-4. Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 35.

Typescript of the novel Hunters and Hunted (London, 1960) with minor autograph changes, together with page proofs of the preliminaries.

Worked autograph drafts of slightly over half the poems collected in 'Turning away' (Llandysul, 1969), predominantly those in the second half of the volume, ff. 1-64; autograph drafts of 17 other poems, ff. 65-85. Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 39.

Autograph and a few typescript drafts of poems collected in 'The Green Desert' (Llandysul, 1969), all but seven of the poems in the volume being represented; most of these drafts are virtually fair copies of the poems as printed, ff. 1-77. Also autograph drafts of nine uncollected poems and translations, ff. 78-90. Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 40.

Typescript of the collection of poems 'The Green Desert' (Llandysul, 1969). The typescript includes a short blurb and a four-line poem 'The Conference' not used in the volume (ff. 4 & 23). 66 Ff. Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 56.