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- 2001-2009 (Creation)
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1 bundle.
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Letters, cards and email correspondence between Gwyneth Lewis, friends, publishers, agents, colleagues, academics, family, universities, government agencies, funding bodies, event organisers, artists and readers of her work concerning literary, social, personal and broadcasting matters, including the creation, publication, performance, translation, sales and impact of her literary work, her research, her literary collaborations and appearances, depression and illness, her inscription for the Wales Millennium Centre, her tributes to other writers, family news, fellowships at Girton College, Cambridge, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the potential purchase of her archival papers, together with draft letters from Gwyneth Lewis, a typescript draft of the introduction to her verbal presentation on ‘The Health of Poetry’ and manuscript notes and memoranda relating to her work, and manuscript notes by her on typescript poems by George Szirtes, as well as related press cuttings, forms, booklets and event schedules, and also email printouts of family photographs, a short typescript essay by an unidentified author on Welsh attitudes to Ireland, a funeral address relating to her uncle in the United States, and a draft letter from Leighton Denver Davies to the Mountain Ash Golf Club. The paper on which some of the emails are printed comprises: letters and documents concerning listing agreements, insurance and radio licensing, 2001-2007, relating to Gwyneth Lewis’s yacht ‘Jameeleh’; a copy of parts of her CV; printouts of parts of 'A Hospital Odyssey'; copies of work sent to her by Tom Bullough and C. K. Williams; a proof copy of part of Byron Rogers, The man who went into the West: the life of R.S. Thomas (Aurum : London, 2007); a completed form relating to a submission for the Arts and Business Cymru Awards on behalf of a youth arts project; and other literary miscellanea, as well as part of a typescript report on the use of the Welsh language, reports and statistics concerning the media in Wales, and an equipment list relating to a trip to Lundy.
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- Dutch
- English
- Welsh
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English, Welsh and Dutch
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The paper on which some of the emails are printed comprises: letters and documents concerning listing agreements, insurance and radio licensing, 2001-2007, relating to Gwyneth Lewis’s yacht ‘Jameeleh’; a copy of parts of her CV; printouts of parts of 'A Hospital Odyssey'; copies of work sent to her by Tom Bullough and C. K. Williams; a proof copy of part of Byron Rogers, The man who went into the West: the life of R.S. Thomas (Aurum : London, 2007); a completed form relating to a submission for the Arts and Business Cymru Awards on behalf of a youth arts project; and other literary miscellanea, as well as part of a typescript report on the use of the Welsh language, reports and statistics concerning the media in Wales, and an equipment list relating to a trip to Lundy.
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- McCracken, Elizabeth (Subject)
- Cocker, Mark, 1959- (Subject)
- Mabey, Richard, 1941- (Subject)
- Phillips, Carl, 1959- (Subject)
- Hoffman, Eva, 1945- (Subject)
- McKenna, Catherine A., 1945- (Subject)
- Petro, Pamela, 1960- (Subject)
- Sampson, Fiona (Subject)
- Kravitz, Edward (Subject)
- Tomlinson, S. (Stephen), 1944- (Subject)
- Griffiths, Niall, 1966- (Subject)
- Bullough, Tom (Subject)
- Szirtes, George, 1948- (Subject)
- Entwistle, Alice (Subject)
- Finch, Peter, 1947- (Subject)
- Clarke, Gillian, 1937- (Subject)
- Williams, C. K. (Charles Kenneth), 1936-2015 (Subject)
- Goldsworthy, Vesna (Subject)
- Bertram, Vicki (Subject)
- Reynolds, Oliver (Subject)
- Williams, Rowan, 1950- (Subject)
- Llywelyn, Robin (Subject)
- Gramich, Katie (Subject)