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Papers, [late 1920s]-1983, of, or relating to, Idris Davies and including drafts of his poetic anthologies Gwalia Deserta (London, 1938), The Angry Summer (London, 1943), and Tonypandy and Other Poems (London, 1945); proofs of Selected Poems (London, 1953); unpublished poems and drafts and fragments of poems, novels, short stories, etc.; lecture notes; diaries for 1938, 1940, 1946, 1948, and 1951; a typescript of his radio talk 'The valleys revisited' (broadcast 1943); and correspondence of or relating to Davies, 1933-1983.

Papers of the poet Idris Davies (1905-53) of Rhymney, including newspaper cuttings, some concerning him and his work; college notebooks, academic essays and a dissertation; letters to Idris Davies from children of Cwmsyfiog school, 1953, and letters concerning him and his work, 1954-77; together with additional papers, 1932-1992, including research notes compiled, 1954-1955, by his cousin and biographer the Rev. Islwyn Jenkins, Carmarthen, two photographs of Idris Davies, manuscript and typescript addresses and scripts concerning him, musical settings of his poems, programmes and leaflets.

Some two hundred poems, mostly fair copies, very few in more than one version, two in Welsh, only one noted in his published collections. A relatively small number are dated; these dates run from 1930 to 1951. The poems all originally on loose sheets of paper are bound in a very rough chronological order. 287 Ff. Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 1.

Papers, 1943-1990, accumulated by Morfydd Peregrine, relating to her fiancée the poet Idris Davies, comprising Davies's diary, 16 October-15 December 1946 (ff. 1-16); four holograph poems, 1943-1952 (ff. 17-20), with a further two in Peregrine's hand, 1951 (ff. 21-22); and newspaper cuttings, 1943-1990, relating to Davies, consisting of poetry (ff. 24-26, 29-34, 43, 45) and reviews, obituaries and articles (ff. 23, 27-28, 35-42, 44).
The holograph poems are 'In Treorchy Cemetery', 21 December 1943 (published as 'David Allen Evans, R.A.F.' in Tonypandy and Other Poems (London, 1945), p. 38), 'Poem for Morfydd', Christmas 1943 (apparently unpublished), 'Rhymney Hill (January 1952)' (reproduced in facsimile in Islwyn Jenkins, Idris Davies of Rhymney (Llandysul, 1986), p. 227) and 'The Choice', [1952] (apparently unpublished). The poems copied by Peregrine are a version of 'Bedwellty Church' omitting the third verse (first published in the Western Mail, 5 March 1948) and 'Brecknockshire' (see The Complete Poems of Idris Davies, ed. by Dafydd Johnston (Cardiff, 1994), C109). Also included is a photograph of Davies and Peregrine (f. 19), as reproduced in the Western Mail, 12 February 1987 (see f. 41); and printed items to accompany the publication of the memorial volume Fe'm Ganed i yn Rhymni / I Was Born in Rhymney (Llandysul, 1990) (ff. 46-51).

Two autograph poems, [1951], by Idris Davies, entitled 'In Glasnevin Cemetery' (ff. 113-116) and 'Mists upon the sea' (f. 117), first published in Dock Leaves, 3.8 (Summer 1952), 28, and ibid. 2.6 (Michaelmas 1951), 36, respectively.
Both appear in The Collected Poems of Idris Davies, ed. by Islwyn Jenkins (Llandysul, 1972), pp. 60-61, 167, and in The Complete Poems of Idris Davies, ed. by Dafydd Johnston (Cardiff, 1994), pp. 161-163.

Copïau, 1947, yn llaw'r awdur, o ddwy gerdd, 'Aberystwyth' (Saesneg) a 'Cwm Rhymni' (Cymraeg), gan Idris Davies. = Autograph copies, 1947, of two poems, 'Aberystwyth' (English) and 'Cwm Rhymni' (Welsh), by Idris Davies.
Cyhoeddwyd 'Aberystwyth' yn y Western Mail, 13 Mawrth 1947, a 'Cwm Rhymni' yn The Collected Poems of Idris Davies, gol. Islwyn Jenkins (Llandysul, 1972), t. 8. Ceir y ddwy yn The Complete Poems of Idris Davies, gol. D. R. Johnston (Caerdydd, 1994), tt. 147-8, 213. = 'Aberystwyth' was first published in the Western Mail, 13 March 1947, and 'Cwm Rhymni' in The Collected Poems of Idris Davies, ed. by Islwyn Jenkins (Llandysul, 1972), p. 8. Both appear in The Complete Poems of Idris Davies, ed. by D. R. Johnston (Cardiff, 1994), pp. 147-8, 213.