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Manuscripts, 1901-1971, brought together (as gifts and purchases) by the Welsh Arts Council, 1965-1971.

Cuttings from magazines, fair typescript copies, fair and worked typescript and autograph drafts of the poems collected in Fidelities (London, 1968). All but one of the poems in the volume are represented, by numbers of drafts up to twenty. Also included are drafts of the preliminaries of the volume (ff. 4-9) and a letter from Gwen Watkins (f. 3) concerning these papers. Drafts of a few poems in Fidelities are among the Vernon Watkins Papers in the British Museum, as Mrs Watkins's letter explains. A contents list shows the number of drafts of each poem, as well as locating them. Some of the drafts are dated. There are five short poems not included in Fidelities, cf. contents list.

Fair holograph copies of the two collections of poems, Welshman in Bloomsbury (London, 1966) and The Sad Mountain (London, 1970).

Corrected page proofs of the anthology The Lilting House, ed. by John Stuart Williams and Meic Stephens (London and Swansea, 1969). Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 47.

Corrected galley proofs of the anthology The Lilting House, ed. by John Stuart Williams and Meic Stephens (London and Swansea, 1969). Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 47.

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.

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

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.

Poetry notebooks containing drafts and notes for poems, as follows: Small notebook with drafts of poems 1964-1965 (ff. 1-18); Ditto, 1965-1966 (ff. 19-36); Ditto, 1966-1967 (ff. 37-60); Drafts of two poems, originally loose leaves (ff. 61-63); Sketchbook containing worked drafts of poems, 1967-1968 (ff. 64-81); Drawing block containing worked drafts of poems, 1968-1969 (ff. 82-88); Typescript drafts with autograph changes of six poems; autograph fair copies, dated 1964, on the back of picture postcards which illustrate the poems, of 'Camargue' and 'Camargue Cross' (ff. 89-102). Most of the poems included in this volume were collected in A Sense of Europe: Collected Poems 1954-1968 (Llandysul, 1968).

Typescript draft with autograph additions and corrections of An Introduction to Anglo-Welsh Literature (Cardiff, 1970).

Corrected galley proofs of his collection of poems, A Sense of Europe: Collected Poems 1954-1968 (Llandysul, 1968). Apart from the preliminary matter, the author's corrections are restricted to typographical errors and layout. Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 38.

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).

Typescript draft, corrected in autograph, of parts One to Three (to p. 228 in the printed work) of Oliver Onions's historical novel A Penny for the Harp (London, 1952). Considerable further changes of detail were made before publication.

Letters to the Welsh Arts Council from the authors listed below (number of letters in brackets). Ff. 1-36, Brenda Chamberlain, 1968-1971 (32). Ff. 37-42, Cathrin Daniel, 1969-1970 (5). Ff. 43-48, Jack Jones, 1967-1970 (6). Ff. 49-54, D. J. Williams, 1967-1969 (6). Ff. 55-58, Waldo Williams, 1969 (4). Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 71.

Six letters from Charles Morgan to Geraint Goodwin 1929-1935: literary and a few personal matters (ff. 1-10); Eighteen letters from Hilda Vaughan to R. Ellis Roberts, the author and journalist, and his wife Harriet, mostly to the latter, 1927-1960: small-talk, some of it literary (ff. 11-42); Two letters from Arthur Machen, 1926 and 1929, the latter, if not both, to a Mr Parker: Machen's autograph (ff. 43-44); Three letters from John Cowper Powys to Sven Erik Tackmark, 1939-1949: personal, with some reference to literature (ff. 45-53); Two letters from W. H. Davies to William Maas of the Daily Chronicle, 1918-1919, about possible contributions; also, fair copies of the poems 'Elli' and 'Bird and Brook', with W. H. Davies's card. The former poem, beginning 'Thou comest unknown, my lady strange and rare', does not appear in the collected poems (ff. 54-60).

Ff. 1-17, Worked drafts, some typescript, of sixteen uncollected poems;. Ff. 18-25, Typescript drafts, heavily revised, of seven poems collected in 'Diesel to Yesterday' (Cardiff, 1966);. Ff. 26-32, Lists of poems, etc, c.1969;. Ff. 33-42, Drafts and worksheets, typescript and autograph, of eight poems collected in 'The Loss of Ancestry' (Swansea & Llandybie, 1969);. Ff. 43-61, Drafts and worksheets, typescript and autograph, of nine poems collected in 'The Province of Belief' (Llandybie, 1971);. Ff. 62-96, Drafts and worksheets of other poems. Formerly Welsh Arts Council MSS 34, 41, 65, 68.

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.

Worked typescript and autograph drafts of about a third of the poems collected in 'Requiem and Celebration' (Swansea 1969). On f. 42 is an unidentified fragment, related to another on the verso of f. 19. Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 46.

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.