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Notebook containing corrections to the page proofs of A Rope of Vines; pen-and-ink sketches of a dancer [Rovertos Saragas], Greek material in prose, and a few draft poems, including some by Rovertos Saragas. Dated 'Ydra May 26 1964' (inside cover) and used May-July 1964.

Notebook, dated January 1947 (on cover), containing a description of a visit to Bardsey (ff. 1-14, 25-27); a brief diary describing her subsequent move to Bardsey in May 1947 and the first days on the island (ff. 36-34, inverted text); and other prose, including Bardsey material.

Uncollected and largely unpublished poems, mostly typescript, some autograph. These poems, which were on loose leaves, have been given some sort of order, as indicated below. Where a poem is represented by several drafts the aim has been to place the earliest draft first followed by the later ones in chronological order.
They comprise: a series of twenty poems, all in several drafts arranged in the order of a typescript list drawn up by Chamberlain (f. 1), perhaps intended as the basis of a collection, [1961x1967] (ff. 1-107); a sequence of poems in draft, numbered 1 to 23, not quite complete, some of which are prose poems, [1961x1967] (ff. 108-126); drafts of poems, mostly typescript, some connected with the play The Protagonists, [1961x1967] (ff. 127-160) [cf. NLW MSS 21491-21494D]; disjointed draft material, some connected with The Protagonists (ff. 161-170); worked typescript drafts of eight poems, found clipped together, [?1950s] (ff. 171-195); drafts and fair copies of poems, [?1950s], those on ff. 196-198 appear in The Green Heart, the five on ff. 213-222, [c. 1953?], were printed in the New York Times (ff. 196-222); a typescript poem, Ossian, by Jennifer Farley (f. 223); drafts of a poem Pan-ic, [1961x1967] (ff. 224-228).

Final typescript of Tide-race (1962) with slight autograph revision, directions to printers and rough sketches of the illustrations that were to be used.

Early typescript draft with autograph revision of Tide-race (1962). Incomplete.

Typescript draft, [1953x1962], with autograph revision, of Brenda Chamberlain's autobiographical novel The Water-Castle (London, 1964), containing passages not included in the published text.

Third typescript draft, with some autograph revision, of The Protagonists.

Second typescript draft of The Protagonists.

Typescript draft with autograph revision of the play The Protagonists, first performed at Bangor in October 1968.

Cyclostyled acting script of The Protagonists.

Drafts of a play entitled 'The Monument', all apparently incomplete. The central character appears to be based on Theodorakis, the Greek composer. The situation is that in Greece in 1968 and after; the work must date from this period.
They comprise: a typescript draft (ff. 1-34); a later typescript draft (ff. 35-73); and disordered fragments of earlier drafts than the preceding, typescript and autograph (ff. 74-110).

Typescript of the collection of poems The Green Heart (London, 1958).

Successive versions of 'The Boy and the Simnel Cake', a story for children, apparently unpublished.
They comprise a typescript of earliest version, entitled 'The Magic Comb', [1940x1959] (ff. 1-9); part of an autograph revision, [?1960s] (ff. 10-14); typescript of revised version (ff. 15-22); typescript of later revised version (ff. 23-31); and water-colour illustrations, probably contemporary with the earliest version, the largest being c. 400 x 250 mm. (ff. 32-49).

Notebook containing sketches and studies and a draft of a children's story.

Notebook containing sketches and studies (pen-and-pencil, water-colour), together with notes and some prose.

Notebook containing sketches (pencil, pen-and-ink, wash, crayon), prose, some poetry, and notes on a visit to Scotland and on A. E. Housman.

Sketchbooks of Brenda Chamberlain comprising: leaves from three sketch pads containing Greek material including drafts of poems, sketches and 'automatic drawings', [1964] (MS 39; 37 ff.); a sketchbook, [Summer 1964], containing some Greek material in prose and ballpoint sketches, notably of a dancer (Rovertos Saragas) dancing, with a note on these particular sketches on ff. 41-45 (MS 40; 64 ff.); three notebooks containing 'automatic drawings' in ballpoint, drawn while listening to the music of Halim El-Dabh, played by the composer, in Ydra. and Athens, October 1964 (MS 41; 117 ff.); and Xerox copies of the three notebooks in MS 41 with a few explanatory notes by Chamberlain, together with two drafts of a letter written by Chamberlain to Isabel Hitchman of the Welsh Arts Council (cf. NLW MS 21524E) explaining the drawings (MS 42; 121 ff.).

Sketch pad, dated 2 January 1965. containing Greek material: pen-and-ink and ballpoint sketches, prose fragments and notes.

Typescript translations into English, by B. J. Morse, of Rilke's Duino Elegies. Five of the ten were published (nos 1, 3, 5, 9, 10).

Printed matter, some items with notes added by Brenda Chamberlain, comprising a catalogue of show of paintings at Gimpel Fils, March 1950, with notes of buyers, etc.; catalogue of show at Gimpel Fils, April 1952; notice of show at Zwemmer Gallery, Sept. 1962; catalogue of show at Zwemmer Gallery, Sept. 1962; catalogue of Welsh Arts Council travelling exhibition, 1963-1964; programme of dance recital by Rovertos Saragas and Nahami Abbell, Nov. 1964 (poems of Brenda Chamberlain were used in this recital, and a drawing and note for the programme); programme for first performance of The Protagonist, Oct. 1968; notice of Brenda Chamberlain's exhibition 'Word & Image', Cardiff April 1970; order of carol service, in German, Christmas 1952; and an interview with Brenda Chamberlain in Forecast (Bangor students' paper) [c. April 1968]. All catalogues, etc., are of Brenda Chamberlain's work.