Ffeil / File 4/1/18 - Letters to Nigel Jenkins from Peter Meilleur

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4/1/18

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Letters to Nigel Jenkins from Peter Meilleur

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  • 1983, 1989-1999, 2001-[2002], 2004 (Creation)

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1 small box

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Letters, cards and postcards, 1983, 1989-1999, 2002-[2002], 2004-2010, 2013 + n.d., to Nigel Jenkins from multi-lingual sound/concrete poet and verbal/visual artist Peter Noel Meilleur ('Childe Roland'). Many of the letters enclose or include sound/concrete poems incorporating small-scale two- and three-dimensional constructions and images by Peter Meilleur, some letters and envelopes are decorated/illustrated with cuttings, motifs, artwork, etc. and one letter is contained within a cigar box.

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Dated correspondence arranged chronologically.

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  • English
  • French
  • Italian
  • Welsh

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For other letters from Peter Meilleur to Nigel Jenkins and from Peter Meilleur to Menna Elfyn, see Municipal and collaborative arts projects of Nigel Jenkins: 1992 Garden Festival Wales.

For the poem Laver Bread, see Poetry of Peter Meilleur.
For the adjudications by Dafydd Rowlands and Pennar Davies (with English translation of text by Nigel Jenkins) of Peter Meilleur's poem Goleuadau, which Meilleur had submitted for the Crown competition at Lampeter National Eisteddfod, 1984, see Miscellaneous material of Peter Meilleur.
For Ifan, y Gan [sic] F[e]lan see also Poetry of Peter Meilleur.

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This item is part-component of Peter Meilleur papers.

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  • Text: 4/1/18 (Box 40)