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The file comprises manuscript and typescript drafts together with printed copies of articles by Glyn Jones, 1953-1993 (with gaps), a number of which were published in Poetry Wales and Bulletin of the Welsh Academy. Included is a review of poetry readings at the Casson Theatre, Cardiff, 1973; articles on John Elwyn, 1976, 'The Beach of Falesá', 1977, John Petts, 1977, and 'Some letters of Idris Davies', 1980; the foreword to Elwyn Davies, Mild majesty (Llandysul, 1987); tributes to Gwyn Thomas, 1981, Keidrych Rhys, 1987, George Ewart Evans, 1988, and John Ormond, 1990; and a draft, notes and correspondence, 1980-1982, relating to an article on Gwyn Jones which appeared in the Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Novelists, 1930-1959 (some papers also pertain to the entry for Glyn Jones in this reference work). -- In addition, the file contains newspaper cuttings, 1960-1961 and 1963, of articles, reviews and poetry by Glyn Jones (arranged and numbered by him); they include a review of the poetry festival, Poetry at the Mermaid, 1961, and cuttings of poems and articles by various writers from the Saturday Magazine section of the Western Mail, 1960. Also included are typescript copies and cuttings of articles by six Anglo-Welsh writers, including Glyn Jones, each of whom wrote a chapter as part of a thriller serial which was published under the title 'Sextet' in the Western Mail, 1961, with related letters.

Correspondence and papers relating to the artists: Colin Allen, Charles I'Anson, Vera Baker, Connor Barrett, Dilwyn Barrette, Alfred E. Bestall (the illustrator of Rupert the Bear), Andre Bicat, Diana Blatton, Martin Bloch, Rosemary Bramley and Frank Brangwyn, 1955-1997. The folder on Martin Bloch includes a letter from Ceri Richards to John Petts concerning the potential purchase of works by Bloch.

Typescript biographical notes, [c. 1971], on John Petts, with autograph corrections by the artist.

Thirteen letters, July 2005-April 2007, from Dr Raymond Garlick to Dr Jacques Wirz (ff. 1-13), together with fifteen corresponding letters, July 2005-June 2007, from Wirz to Garlick (ff. 14-23, 27-32).
The letters include references to Harri Webb (f. 1), Brenda Chamberlain (f. 7), John Petts (f. 7) and R. S. Thomas (f. 8). Also included is a typescript translation into English by Wirz of an article in German, by Daisy Reck, concerning Cader Idris (ff. 24-26).

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).

Includes letters from Alun Llewellyn (4); Glyn Jones (4); Sam Adams (8); Leslie Norris (4); John Ackerman (4); Moira Dearnley (3); Peter Abbs (6); Neville Masterman (5); L. Alun Page (3); John Tripp (8); John Petts; R. George Thomas (2); Andrew McNeillie; Robert Morgan (9); Meic Stephens (12); Roy Thomas (6); Alison Bielski (4); Jeremy Hooker (7); J. P. Ward (4); Arthur Giardelli (5); Belinda Humfrey (11); Rosamund Stanhope (2); Randal Jenkins (3); H. P. Collins (5); George Ewart Evans (2); Gillian Clarke (8); Raymond Garlick (2); John Stuart Williams (8); Lawrence W. Hockey (2); Tony Curtis (3); Désirée Hirst (2); Graham Allen; Anthony Conran (2); R. S. Thomas; A. G. Prys-Jones (4); and Ray Howard-Jones.

Includes letters from Ruth Pryor (10); Glyn Jones (3); Alan Rudrum (7); Chris Torrance (2); Brian Keeble (11); Désirée Hirst (7); David [Dai] Smith (5); David Blamires (3); A. G. Prys-Jones (5); Gwyn Williams (3); Bernard Lloyd; Sally Roberts Jones (14); John Stuart Williams (3); Arthur Giardelli (2); Raymond Garlick (9); Gillian Clarke (8); Leslie Norris (5); Richard Poole (6); Nancy K. Sandars; Dora Polk (2); Ray Howard-Jones (9); Francis Jones (3); Ruth Bidgood (2); Jeremy Hooker (6); John Ormond (4); Austen Wilks (8, including a typescript draft of the article 'Derry Ormond tower: a Welsh landscape artefact'); Dannie Abse (2); J. P. Ward (4); John Pikoulis (8); Roy Thomas (3); Tony Curtis (4); Don Dale-Jones; Sam Adams (3); John Idris Jones (2); Aneirin Talfan Davies (2); John Ackerman; Harri Webb (3); Paul Ferris; John Petts; Alun Richards (2); Glyn Tegai Hughes; Belinda Humfrey; Patrick Thomas; Philip Pacey; and Prys Morgan.

Includes letters from Idris Parry (2), Alan Perry (4), John Petts (20), Kusha Petts (11), Paul Piech (7), John Pikoulis (25), William Plomer (2), Richard Poole (5), and Caradog Pritchard.

Photocopies (from originals and from printed sources) and typescript and manuscript transcripts of letters and cards to/from Alun Lewis, the correspondents comprising: Jean Gilbert, librarian of the former Pontigny Abbey in Burgundy, France (1938-1939); novelist, poet and literary historian Glyn Jones (1939-1941), the majority of the letters being photocopies of transcripts made by Alun John; Richard Mills ([1939-1941, 1943-1944]) (suggested dates inserted in John Pikoulis's hand), with accompanying notes by Pikoulis, some of which appear to refer to earlier correspondence between Lewis and Mills; poet and man of letters John Lehmann (1940-1943 and undated); Sir Bryan and Lady Renée Hopkin ([1940] (suggested date inserted in Pikoulis's hand)-1942), with annotations and rough notes in Pikoulis's hand; artist and engraver John Petts and his wife, artist, poet and writer Brenda Chamberlain (1940-1944 and undated), with annotations, including suggested dates of letters, in the hands of John Petts and John Pikoulis, with some items annotated by the poet, writer and literary critic Roland Mathias, and rough notes in the hand of John Pikoulis, also a batch of mostly duplicate letters (1941-1944 and undated) from Alun Lewis to John Petts and Brenda Chamberlain which have been annotated with observations in red ink by Roland Mathias (see also note under System of arrangement, below); poet and novelist Lynette Roberts and her husband, literary journalist, editor and poet Keidrych Rhys ([1941],1943 and undated) (suggested date of 1941 inserted by Pikoulis), with rough notes and annotations by Pikoulis; publishing houses Chatto & Windus (1941), Faber & Faber (1941) and Thomas Moult, editor of The Best Poems of 1941 (Jonathan Cape, 1942) ([1941]); photocopies of originals and transcripts of letters between poet, novelist and critic Robert Graves and Alun Lewis (1941-1944), together with related letters to John Pikoulis from Professor Paul O'Prey (1980, 1981) and Louisa Bowen at the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Illinois (1982) and rough notes in Pikoulis's hand; Leslie and Bill Sykes (1942 and undated); novelist Llewelyn Wyn Griffith (1942) (see also John Pikoulis: Alun Lewis: A Life (Poetry Wales Press, 1984), p. 306); Professor Bonamy Dobrée (1942); Alun Lewis family members (parents Thomas J. and Gwladys Lewis (undated), uncle and aunt Timothy and Nellie Lewis (undated) and sister Mair Lewis (later Fenn) (1943)) (see also under Gweno Lewis, under Gwladys Lewis and under Other Lewis family members); Wendon Mostyn (aft. Jones) (1944) (this letter is referenced in a 1986 letter to John Pikoulis from Wendon Jones (see under Letters to John Pikoulis from academic and work colleagues of Alun Lewis and from academic institutions)); and poet and editor Seumas (or Seamus) O'Sullivan (undated).

Dates noted are those of original letters, not of photocopying/transcription.

Each envelope marked with correspondent(s') name(s) and date(s) of correspondence.

Note that cross-referencing of names inevitably occurs between friends and acquaintances, military colleagues and academic/work colleagues of Alun Lewis - please refer to all relevant categories.

Diary of Raymond Garlick for the year 1987, with one day to a page, giving an account of his daily life and interests, reminiscences and comments on the news (ff. 3-186).
The volume includes references to Andrew Sachs (ff. 4 recto-verso, 55, 56 verso-57, 71 verso, 152 verso, 162 verso, 167-168), Gwynfor Evans (ff. 4 verso, 103), R. S. Thomas (ff. 7 verso, 46, 181), Tony Bianchi (f. 46 verso), Tom Paulin (ff. 45 verso, 46 verso), John Petts (f. 55 verso), Glyn Jones (f. 106), Brenda Chamberlain (ff. 106, 116, 117 verso), Jon Dressel (ff. 22-157 passim), Elwyn Davies (f. 124), Belinda Humfrey (ff. 144, 179 verso-180), Tony Conran (f. 165 verso), Jacques Wirz (ff. 13, 146 verso-149) and Roland Mathias (ff. 7 verso, 22, 34, 91, 104, 144). He also describes visits to the Netherlands (ff. 123-125) and Switzerland (ff. 146 verso-149). Also included are a few notes and cash accounts (ff. 188-189 verso, 195) while a few cuttings have been pasted into the volume.

Yn cynnwys llythyrau oddi wrth/Includes letters from: Teleri Bevan; Alun Talfan Davies; Per Denez; Owen Edwards, BBC; Peter Hughes Griffiths (5); Dafydd Glyn Jones, Bangor; Geraint Morgan AS/MP; John Petts; Dewi Watkin Powell; Syr/Sir Wyn Roberts; Ted Rowlands AS/MP; Eric Varley.

Material relating to the engravings by John Petts published in Gwyn Jones: The Green Island (Golden Cockerel Press, 1946), including letters, 1945-1946, to Christopher Sandford, the publisher, from Gwyn Jones, John Petts, John [Northcote] Nash, artist, and others; two original drawings by John Petts; and some page-proofs and pulls of illustrations. Professor Gwyn Jones's letters also contain several references to the preparation for publication by the Golden Cockerel Press of Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones: The Mabinogion (1948).

Rough notes taken by John Pikoulis during interviews with friends and acquaintances of Alun Lewis in the course of his research into Lewis's life and work, the interviewees comprising: Leslie Sykes (1980); artist and engraver John Petts (undated); poet, literary journalist and editor Keidrych Rhys (whom Pikoulis notes as 'Keidrick') (undated); poet, novelist and Baptist minister Rhydwen Williams (undated); Thomas Jones (undated); Cyril Moseley of Morgan Bruce & Nicholas, Solicitors, Pontypridd (undated); Megan McTrusty, with letter to John Pikoulis from Megan McTrusty (undated); and Irene Birdsall (undated).

Three files of correspondence, 1940-1942, of J. D. Lewis and Sons, Gomerian Press, Llandysul, including letters from Brenda Chamberlain, T. Rowland Hughes, Iorwerth C. Peate, John Petts and D. J. Williams. = Tair ffeil o ohebiaeth, 1940-1942, J. D. Lewis, Gwasg Gomer, Llandysul, gan gynnwys llythyrau oddi wrth Brenda Chamberlain, T. Rowland Hughes, Iorwerth C. Peate, John Petts a D. J. Williams.

Correspondents include F. R. Leavis (2), Alun Lewis, Saunders Lewis, Lilo Linke (3), Ben Nicholson (9), Marco Pallis (14), R. Williams Parry, T. H. Parry-Williams (2), and John Petts (enclosing Caseg Press broadsheets, nos 1-4).

Some one hundred and sixty letters, 1938-1997, in English and Welsh, to John Elwyn from various correspondents (surnames L-N), both personal and work related.
The correspondents include Morland Lewis, 16 October 1939 (f. 15), Richard Macdonald, 1938-[?1939] (ff. 26-28), Ronald Maddox, 1995-1996 (ff. 96-98), Roland Mathias, 1957, 1992 (ff. 101-102), Robert Morgan, 1980-1993 (ff. 112-141), Prof. T. J. Morgan, [c. 1980] (f. 150), Carey Morris, 14 August 1944 (f. 153), James Nicholas, 20 February 1992 (f. 176), W. Rhys Nicholas, 7 January 1976 (f. 177), and Leslie Norris, 1972-1997 (ff. 178-201); there are also two letters on behalf of the actor Robert Morley, 1957 (ff. 151-152). Letters from Nicolas and Frances McDowall of the Old Stile Press, Llandogo, 1979, 1990-1997 (ff. 30-93), relate mainly to the volume Dafydd ap Gwilym, Houses of Leaves (Llandogo, [1993]), illustrated by John Elwyn; letters from Megan Ellis, National Library of Wales, 1959-1961 (ff. 157-173, 175), relate mostly to an exhibition at the Library in 1959 to which John Elwyn contributed. Also included are copies of poems by Robert Morgan (ff. 137, 139) and Leslie Norris (ff. 184, 186, 198), cards produced by Old Stile Press, 1979-1991 (ff. 33-34, 38-41, 53, 57), and an exhibition catalogue relating to Robert Morgan, [?1994] (ff. 142-147). The letters from Leslie Norris contain references to John Arlott (f. 180), R. S. Thomas (f. 180), John Petts (f. 183) and Robert Morgan (ff. 193, 194).

Over one hundred and thirty letters, 1938-1997, in English and Welsh, to John Elwyn from various correspondents (surnames O-R), both personal and work related.
The correspondents include John Ormond, 1977-1987 (ff. 4-20 verso), [Sir] Thomas Parry, 17 December 1959 (f. 29), John Petts, 1953-1991 (ff. 35-55), Thomas Rathmell, December 1988 (f. 119), Dennis William Reed, 1938-1957 (ff. 120-155 verso), Ceri Richards, 1947 (ff. 161-163), and Frank Roper, 12 May 1959 (f. 165). Letters, 1959-1962, relating to commissions for the Shell County Guides, from the publishers Rainbird, McLean Ltd (later George Rainbird Ltd) (ff. 80-117, 174-180), include letters from Kenneth Rowntree, 1959-1960 (ff. 96, 104, 174-175), and Edward Young, 1962 (ff. 113-117), notes by Geoffrey Grigson, 1959-1960 (ff. 99-101, 176-180), and a letter from John Elwyn (f. 92). Also included is a copy of John Ormond's tribute to Graham Sutherland, 1980 (ff. 5-13). The letters contain references to Dannie Abse (ff. 16-17), Leslie Norris (f. 17), John Petts's declining health and death (ff. 31-34), Richard Macdonald (ff. 120 recto-verso, 123-124, 131, 142 recto-verso, 143 verso, 145) and Frank Dobson (ff. 131 verso-132); and to the Second World War (ff. 124-146), including air-raids on Bristol (ff. 135-138).

Correspondence between John Pikoulis and friends and acquaintances of Alun Lewis as part of Pikoulis's research into the life and work of Alun Lewis. Correspondents comprise: Howell Davies (1977 and undated); Lady Marjorie Linstead (née Walters) (1978), together with a fair-copied letter to Lady Linstead from John Pikoulis, a copy of a testimonial letter, 1978, to Lady Linstead from J. Selwyn Davies, Director and Head of the Extra-Mural Studies Department, University College Cardiff, and rough notes made by John Pikoulis; Bernard Pile (1978); Professor Mansel Davies (1978); artist and engraver John Petts (1978, 1980); novelist, poet and literary historian Glyn Jones (1979, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1992 and undated); poet and novelist Lynette Roberts (1979); solicitor Cyril Moseley (1979); Iris Dawes (née Jones) (1979); Megan McTrusty (1980 and undated); [?Iris] James (1980 and undated); poet, lecturer and man of letters John Lehmann (1980); Leslie Sykes (1980-1981); literary journalist, editor and poet Keidrych Rhys (1980); John Williams, Cardiff (1980); poet, writer and educationalist Arthur Glyn Prys-Jones (1980); Barbara [?Farrington] (1980); Lady Renée Hopkin (1981); bookshop owner Christina Foyle (1981,1984); Irene Birdsall (1981); Elonwy Kirkland (née Maddox) (1981-1982); Sulwyn Williams (1981); G. Davies, Aberdare (1983); Gillian Somerville-Large (2001, 2003); T. J. Evans (undated); and Jean Gilbert (undated), librarian of the former Pontigny Abbey in Burgundy, France, together with draft letters and queries from John Pikoulis to Jean Gilbert, a photocopy of a letter, 24 August 1939 (date added later in French), from Alun Lewis to Jean Gilbert (see also under Correspondence of Alun Lewis (photocopies, typescript copies and transcripts)), a list of French phrases with English translations possibly in the hand of Jean Gilbert and [?transcripts] of letters, possibly from Elizabeth Leslie to John Pikoulis.

Each envelope marked with name(s) of correspondent(s) and date(s) (where applicable) of correspondence.

Alun Lewis's close friend Richard (Dick) Mills and Lewis's former girlfriend Wendon Jones (née Mostyn), both of whom were fellow students of Alun Lewis at Aberystwyth University, are described under Letters to John Pikoulis from academic and work colleagues of Alun Lewis and from academic institutions.

Includes letters from Alan Bowness, Lloyd Kenyon (2), Hugo Boothby, John Petts, Brian Flowers, Nicholas Edwards, Ioan Bowen Rees, Robert W. Steel (2), R. Vivian Pitchforth, Eirene White, Eiluned Rees (3), Rosemary Gwynne-Jones (4), Hugh Casson (2, one including an illustration in ink), R. Geraint Gruffydd (5), Adrian Sorrell, Donald Moore, Edward Bawden, Moelwyn Merchant, Delyth Jones, and Henry Paget (Marquess of Anglesey).

Miscellaneous correspondence following Cledwyn Hughes' death, including letters of condolence and correspondence relating to publishing his work posthumously and donating his collection to NLW. The file also includes a letter from John Petts.