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Date(s)
- 1965-1971 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
13 ff.
Guarded and filed at NLW.
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Sotheby's; London; Purchased at auction, lot 359; 15 July 1999; B1999/20.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Nine letters, 1965-1971, from the poet, novelist and film director B. S. Johnson to the poet Bryn Griffiths, discussing the latter's poetry and prose contributions to Transatlantic Review and other publications edited by Johnson, as well as giving news of Johnson's own work.
Also included are a carbon copy of a testimonial from Johnson, supporting Griffiths's application for a bursary from the [?Welsh] Arts Council, [1967] (f. 4), and a contract (ff. 7-8) and letter (f. 9), February 1968, from the publishers Victor Gollancz, concerning Griffiths's article for The Evacuees, ed. by B. S. Johnson (London, 1968).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged chronologically at NLW.
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Conditions governing access
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 1998 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply. Information regarding ownership of B. S. Johnson copyright can be found at http://tyler.hrc.utexas.edu/ (viewed April 2011).
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
English.
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Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23789C.
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Access points
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Name access points
- Welsh Arts Council -- Research grants. (Subject)
- Victor Gollancz Ltd. (Subject)
- Johnson, B. S. (Bryan Stanley), 1933-1973 -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Griffiths, Bryn -- Correspondence (Subject)
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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Dates of creation revision deletion
April 2011.
Language(s)
- English
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Sources
Archivist's note
Description revised by Rhys Morgan Jones;