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- 2008-2010 (Creation)
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1 bundle.
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Correspondence including emails, letters and cards between Gwyneth Lewis, friends, agents, publishers, academics, other writers, universities, festival organisers, broadcasters, readers of her work and members of her family concerning personal, social and literary matters including the writing, quality, impact, publication and performance of her work, her research (notably on birdsong, genetics and physics), her collaborations with others, depression, college fellowships, her life at Stanford, health insurance in the USA, and her status as a former National Poet of Wales, with related press cuttings and publicity material for literary events, as well as publishers’ proofs of ‘A Hospital Odyssey’ with manuscript emendations by Gwyneth Lewis, a typescript copy of an introductory address given by her at a poetry reading by Paul Muldoon, manuscript notes and personal memoranda by her, photographs (mostly printed from emails) relating to her family and work, menus of meals held in honour of Gwyneth Lewis and others, and a typescript draft of the poem ‘Roe vs Wade’ by C.K. Williams. The paper on which some of the emails are printed comprises: documents relating to health insurance in the USA; and a completed form relating to a submission for the Arts and Business Cymru Awards on behalf of a youth arts project.
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Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions set out in information provided when applying for their Readers' Tickets, whereby the reader shall become responsible for compliance with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library.
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- English
- Welsh
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English and Welsh
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The paper on which some of the emails are printed comprises: documents relating to health insurance in the USA; and a completed form relating to a submission for the Arts and Business Cymru Awards on behalf of a youth arts project.
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- Hoffman, Eva, 1945- (Subject)
- Finch, Peter, 1947- (Subject)
- Williams, C. K. (Charles Kenneth), 1936-2015 (Subject)
- Cocker, Mark, 1959- (Subject)
- Sampson, Fiona (Subject)
- Entwistle, Alice (Subject)
- Ryan, Kay (Subject)
- Wolff, Tobias, 1945- (Subject)
- Tyree, J. M. (Joshua M.) (Subject)
- Shoptaw, John, 1949- (Subject)
- Rhie, Kay (Subject)
- Harries, Martin (Subject)
- Williams, Rowan, 1950- (Subject)
- Muldoon, Paul (Subject)
- Twichell, Chase, 1950- (Subject)
- Flaherty, Alice (Subject)
- Beer, Gillian (Subject)
- Lumsden, Roddy, 1966- (Subject)
- Pugh, Sheenagh, 1950- (Subject)
- Vendler, Helen, 1933- (Subject)
- Faludi, Susan (Subject)
- Haber, James E. (Subject)
- Ginsparg, P. (Paul) (Subject)