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Letters to Sam Adams from A.O.H. Jarman (1), Meic Stephens (5), R. George Thomas (1), Dora Polk (1), Stewart Conn (4), Duncan Glen (1), Edwin Morgan (3), Gus Martin (1), Ulla-Lena Lundberg (1), William Cookson (3), John Ackerman (2), John Barnie (1), Norman Schwenk (1), Ruth Bidgood (1), Lewis Davies (1), Malcolm Parr (1), Christopher Meredith (1), Peter Gruffydd (1), John Harris (2), John Stuart Williams (1), John Davies (1), Glyn Tegai Hughes (2), Pennar Davies (2), Raymond Garlick (1), Roland Mathias (5), Sally Roberts Jones (3), Nest Cleverdon (1), Howell Daniels (1), Tony Curtis (1), Ioan Bowen Rees (1), Nigel Jenkins (1), Chris Torrance (1), Walford Davies (1), Robert Morgan (2), Alexander Cordell (1), Desireé Hirst (1) and Glyn Jones (5) concerning literary, social and personal matters, especially relating to poetry, Poetry Wales and Welsh literature, including comments on Adams's own poems and reviews, together with copies of two poems by Bobi Jones (one of them in Welsh), one poem by Tony Curtis and three by Meic Stephens.

The file includes seventy-eight letters to Sam Adams, 1970-1975 and undated, from Peter Abbs (6), Cary Archard (1), John Barnie (3), D. A. Callard (1), Elwyn Davies (6), Tom Earley (1), Christine Furnival (2), David Greene (2), Steve Griffiths (6), Peter Gruffydd (2), Robert Havard (3), Cyril Hodges (2), Daniel Huws (1), Nigel Jenkins (1), John Ackerman Jones (3), Peter Levi (1), Peter Elfed Lewis (6), Robert Minhinnick (5), John Montague (1), C. B. O'Neill (1), Dora Polk (2), John Pook (3), Richard Poole (1), Peter Preece (1), Sheenagh Pugh (2), Sally Roberts Jones (2), Meg Seaton (1), R. George Thomas (3), Chris Torrance (3), J. P. Ward (6), and Herbert Williams (1). The letters mainly relate to Poetry Wales, and include copies of poems by John Barnie and Peter Elved Lewis, and biographical details provided by Elwyn Davies, Sheenagh Pugh, and Meg Seaton.

Includes letters from Leslie Norris; Nigel Jenkins; Raymond Garlick (5); Sam Adams (7); Belinda Humfrey; John Trice (2); Jon Dressel; Robert Steel (2); Ruth Bidgood (3); Jeremy Hooker (2); and John Davies.

Includes letters from Ruth Bidgood (4); Sam Adams (6); Marion Löffler (2); Robert Steel; Meic Stephens (2); Nigel Jenkins (including a typescript copy of his poem 'Porth Cwyfan (for Roland Mathias)'); Gerald Clifton; John Davies (2); Raymond Garlick (2); Jeremy Hooker; Leslie Norris (2); John Pikoulis; and Gillian Clarke (2).

Includes letters from Leslie Norris (2); Ruth Bidgood (3); Meic Stephens (3); Raymond Garlick (5); Dora Polk (2); Gillian Clarke; Gwyn O. Jones; Nigel Jenkins; Jeremy Hooker (2); and John Davies (2).

Includes letters from John Davies (5); R. Gerallt Jones; Raymond Garlick (6); Meic Stephens (12, including copies of letters from Meic Stephens to Ceri George and R. Brinley Jones); Anthony Conran (3); Jeremy Hooker (3); Robert Minhinnick; Bruce J. James (6); Ruth Bidgood (5); Nigel Jenkins (3); Gerard Casey; Jon Dressel; Kay Harris (3); Leslie Norris (including a copy of the poem 'The dark months'); Glyn Jones (5); Elwyn Davies; Emyr Humphreys; Brian Keeble; Sam Adams (2); A. G. Prys-Jones; and Cecil Price.

Includes letters from A. G. Prys-Jones (7); Meic Stephens (25); Alun Llewellyn (3); Robert Minhinnick (2); Ruth Bidgood (6); David Harries; Sally Roberts Jones (4); Nigel Jenkins (2); Dannie Abse (2); Joseph Clancy (3); Glyn Jones (3); Leslie Norris; Elwyn Davies (2); Gillian Clarke (3); Greg Hill (4); Raymond Garlick (2); Cary Archard (2); John Davies; and Tony Bianchi (2).

Includes letters from Anthony Conran; Meic Stephens (13); Gillian Clarke (2); A. G. Prys-Jones (6); Gwyn Jones (4); Nigel Jenkins (8); Cary Archard; Emyr Humphreys (2); Raymond Garlick (13); Glyn Jones (3); Dai Smith (3); Jeremy Hooker; Hamish M. Brown; Peter Finch (3); Duncan Bush (2); Deian Hopkin (2); Ray Howard-Jones; Alan Perry (2); Brian Howells; John Davies; Wynn Thomas; and Leslie Norris (addressed to Meic Stephens, containing amendments to the entry on Leslie Norris for the Companion to the literature of Wales).

Includes letters from Sally Roberts Jones (5); John Davies (5); Ruth Bidgood (9); G. O. Jones; Glyn Jones (5); A. G. Prys-Jones (3); Meic Stephens (18, including a copy of a letter to R. Geraint Gruffydd); Tony Curtis (3); Douglas Bassett (5); Prys Morgan; Gerard Casey (4); Emyr Humphreys (2); Raymond Garlick (4); J. P. Ward (2); John Osmond (2); Walford Davies (5); Greg Hill (3); Peter Finch; Leslie Norris (2); Joseph Clancy; Sam Adams (3); Dora Polk; Nigel Jenkins (4); Gwyn Jones (2); Gillian Clarke (2); Kay Harris; and Dai Smith (2).

Includes letters from John Pikoulis; Raymond Garlick (4); Gillian Clarke (2); Cary Archard (3); Meic Stephens (8); Ronald Lowe; Jeremy Hooker (4); A. G. Prys-Jones (4); Glyn Jones (4); J. P. Ward; John Davies (3); Ruth Bidgood (9); Nigel Jenkins; Jon Dressel; Ray Howard-Jones (2); and Sally Roberts Jones.

Includes letters from Gillian Clarke (19); Tony Curtis (5); Sally Roberts Jones (5); John Tripp (7); Raymond Garlick (8); Peter Elfed Lewis (9); A. G. Prys-Jones (3); John Ormond; Belinda Humfrey; Judith Maro; J. P. Ward (2); Nigel Jenkins; Ray Howard-Jones (11); Ruth Pryor (9); Dora Polk; Robert Morgan (3); John Stuart Williams; John Rowlands (6); Alison Bielski (4); Ruth Bidgood (4); Alun Llewellyn; Graham Allen; Ieuan Gwynedd Jones; David [Dai] Smith (5); Sam Adams (2); Neville Masterman (2); Leslie Norris (3); L. Alun Page; Glyn Jones (4); John Ackerman; and Patrick Thomas.

Includes letters from Neville Masterman (12); Glyn Jones (13); Jeremy Hooker (8); Sam Adams (13); Elwyn Davies (3); Kyffin Williams (5, including a card with an original print of Patagonian rider, signed by him); Cecil Price (10); John Idris Jones (8); Alun Llewellyn (12); Gwynfor Evans (2); Tom Earley; Andrew McNeillie (2); Moira Dearnley (4); Saunders Lewis; Randal Jenkins (5); L. Alun Page (6); Roy Thomas (3); Jane McCormick (3); R. George Thomas (2); Dannie Abse (2); Dora Polk (6); H. P. Collins (4); John Stuart Williams (5); Annemarie Ewing (2); Raymond Garlick (7); Alun Talfan Davies; Ray Howard-Jones (4); Stephen L. I. Pettit (4); Alan Perry; Leslie Norris (7); A. G. Prys-Jones; John Petts (4); R. S. Thomas; John Ackerman (2); Nigel Jenkins (2); Alison Bileski (2); Robert Morgan (3); and Peter Finch (2).

Letters, 1941-2001. Among the correspondents are Elwyn Evans, Jackson Mathews, Rush Rhys (3), Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, Glyn Jones, Brian [Lewis] (3), Raymond Garlick, Gwyn Jones, Nicole Crossley-Holland, Nigel Jenkins; together with letters received by Manon Hellings in the years after her husband's death. Also included is a postcard sent by Peter Hellings to his mother in 1946 from Jerusalem.

Press cuttings, 1997, relating to the controversy concerning the publication of a poem by Nigel Jenkins in the New Welsh Review following the death of George Thomas, Viscount Tonypandy.

Typescript copies, [1995]-1997, of poems submitted to the New Welsh Review; together with related letters, 1992 and 1995-1997, including a letter from Nigel Jenkins.

Various papers, 1988-2002, relating to contributions to the New Welsh Review and items published in the journal. Included are images, poems and short stories submitted to the Review; poetry reports; the Reviews Editor's file; papers relating to an article on Shakespeare's Welsh connection; the campaign supporting R. S. Thomas's nomination for the Nobel Prize for Literature 1996; a poem by Nigel Jenkins on George Thomas, Viscount Tonypandy; and a series of articles entitled 'Welsh greats of the century'.

Includes letters from Peter Finch (2); Nigel Jenkins; Sally Roberts Jones; John Idris Jones; Tony Curtis; John Ackerman; and Chris Bendon (4).

Includes letters from Siân James (6); Mike Jenkins (25); Nigel Jenkins (25); Dafydd Johnston (3); G. O. Jones (8); Gwyn Jones (4); John Idris Jones (29); Jonah Jones (7); Marian Henry Jones (3); Phyllis M. Jones (5); and Sally Roberts Jones (8).

Some two hundred and eighty letters and cards, 1968-1992, to Dedwydd Jones from various correspondents, mainly relating to the literary periodical 2 Plus 2, of which he was executive editor, 1983-1985; together with a number of poems and short stories submitted for publication by writers from Britain, Ireland, Australia, North America and India. The correspondents and contributors include Dannie Abse (8, with two poems) 1968-1992, Samuel Beckett (1) 1983, Tony Curtis (4, with one poem) 1983-1984, Brian Friel (1) 1991, Nigel Jenkins (2) 1987, Jan Morris (17) 1975-1991, Peter Redgrove (6, with four poems) 1983-1984, and Iain Crichton Smith (one short story, [c. 1984]).

The file contains two letters (2005), from John Barnie (1) and David Lloyd (1); a promotional leaflet, and a booklet of performance material ([c.2005]), relating to the music and poetry group Llaeth Mwnci Madog (‘Madog’s Moonshine’), the members of which were John Barnie, Iwan Llwyd, and Nigel Jenkins, also performing with the poet David Lloyd.