Title based on contents.
Published
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales
Papers of Raymond Garlick, 1944-2005, comprising poetry, 1951-1999; letters, 1944-2003, from Elwyn Davies, Jonah Jones, Brenda Chamberlain, Cledwyn Hughes, A. G. Prys-Jones and others; and diaries and travel journals, 1950, 1956-1957, 1987-1998, 2000-2001. The diaries contain frequent references to his family, including his children Iestyn and Angharad, and to friends such as John Cowper Powys, Jon Dressel, R. S. Thomas and Roland Mathias.
Arranged according to NLW MSS reference numbers: NLW MSS 16903C, 20728C, 20896A, 23176D, 23766-23779, 23908-23910, 23936E, 24149-24164.
NLW MS 16903C: Raymond Garlick; Blaenau Ffestiniog; Donation; January 1957.
NLW MS 20728C: Raymond Garlick; [Llansteffan]; Purchase; May 1971.
NLW MS 20896A: Raymond Garlick; Llansteffan; Donation; July 1972.
NLW MSS 24149E, ff. 1-30, 128-41, 24153-7: Raymond Garlick; Llansteffan; Purchase; January 1973.
NLW MSS 24158-60: Raymond Garlick; Llansteffan; Purchase; December 1974.
NLW MS 24161B: Raymond Garlick; Llansteffan; Donation; March 1976.
NLW MSS 24151-2B; Raymond Garlick; Llansteffan; Purchase; February 1977.
NLW MS 24162A: Ymddiriedolaeth Taliesin (per Mr Meic Stephens, Cardiff); Purchase; June 1990; B1990/20.
NLW MS 24149E, ff. 31-127: Raymond Garlick; Carmarthen; Donation; April 1991; A1991/50.
NLW MSS 24150A, 24163-4: Raymond Garlick; Carmarthen; Purchase; September 1993; B1993/35.
NLW MS 23176D: Raymond Garlick; Carmarthen; Donation (with NLW MS 23177D); September 1993; A1993/133.
NLW MSS 23766-23779: Raymond Garlick; Carmarthen; Purchase; March 1999; B1999/8.
NLW MSS 23908-23910: Dr Raymond Garlick; Carmarthen; Purchase; August 2003; 0200309953, 0200309955-6.
NLW MS 23936E: Dr Raymond Garlick; Carmarthen; Donation; May 2005; 0200504305.
NLW MSS 24154-7 deposited by Raymond Garlick at NLW in June 1972.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 16903C.
Published
Working sheets, 1951-[1955], of the poems 'Requiem for a Poet' and 'The City' by Raymond Garlick.
They comprise typescript and manuscript drafts, 1951-[1953], of Requiem for a Poet (Pembroke Dock, [1953]) (ff. 1-29), including a fair typescript copy, lacking the Offertorium, [1953] (ff. 18-29); and manuscript verses and a heavily emended typescript draft of 'The City', [1955] (ff. 30-35). This was published in Y Ddinas, June 1955, p. 14, and was later incorporated into the poem Blaenau Observed ([n.p.], [1956]). Also included is a covering letter, 12 January 1957, from Raymond Garlick, Blaenau Ffestiniog, to the National Library of Wales (f. i).
Arranged chronologically at NLW.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 20728C.
The Rev. A. W. Wade-Evans (1875-1964), was the rector of Wrabness, Essex, and a historian.
John Cowper Powys (1872-1963), was a prolific novelist, poet, and literary critic. He wrote one of the most remarkable autobiographies in the English language; he was the author of several works of popular philosophy; and throughout his long life he was an obsessive letter writer and diarist. Although never fully accepted as part of the ‘canon’ of English novelists, he is widely regarded as one of the great novelists of the 20th century, and his admirers include many eminent writers and critics. He was born in Shirley, Derbyshire, on 8 October 1872. In 1879 the family moved to Dorchester, Dorset, eventually settling, in 1885, in Montacute, Somerset. Powys therefore spent most of his childhood within the borders of the ancient kingdom of ‘Wessex’. Its landscape – which was also the setting for Thomas Hardy’s novels – came to dominate his imagination. He was the eldest of eleven children in a family notable for its strong-willed and individualistic characters. Two of his brothers, Theodore Francis Powys (1875-1953) and Llewelyn Powys (1884-1939), also became distinguished writers, while his sister Marian Powys (1882-1972) settled in New York, becoming a leading lace designer and a world authority on the history of lace making. Their father Charles Francis Powys (1843-1923) was a clergyman who took great pride in his Welsh ancestry, while their mother Mary Cowper Powys (1849-1914) was descended from the English poets John Donne and William Cowper. John Cowper was educated at Westbury House preparatory school, Sherborne, and Sherborne School (1883–1891), and subsequently at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. In 1896 he published his first volume of verse, Odes and Other Poems, and in the same year he married Margaret Alice Lyon (1874-1947). They had one son, Littleton Alfred Powys (1902-1954), but the marriage was a failure and Powys and his wife eventually separated. After leaving Cambridge Powys had found work as a teacher at various girls' schools before becoming an extension lecturer affiliated to Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Between 1909 and 1930, he earned his living as an itinerant lecturer in the USA, where he won fame as an inspired and charismatic orator. His first novel, Wood and Stone, was published in New York in 1915, and his first full length work of of popular philosophy, The Complex Vision, appeared in 1920. During a visit to Missouri, in 1921, he met Phyllis Playter (1894-1982) who became his life companion, his muse, and a powerful influence upon his literary career. While in the USA Powys also made the acquaintance of several eminent American literary figures, including the poet, Edgar Lee Masters, and the writers, Theodore Dreiser and Henry Miller. He reached his maturity as a novelist with the publication, in 1929, of his fifth novel, Wolf Solent. Its success led him give up lecturing and devote his life to writing. In 1930 he and Playter went to live in Phudd Bottom, upper New York state. There followed two other novels of immense scope and psychological subtlety: A Glastonbury Romance (1932), and Weymouth Sands (1934). In the same year he published his very frank and revealing Autobiography. Although written in America, these books are full of sensuous descriptions of the ‘Wessex’ landscapes of his youth. Like Powys himself, many of the protagonists of his novels are introspective characters who develop a personal ‘mythology’ as a means of coming to terms with the world. In 1935, while in his sixties, Powys fulfilled a long cherished ideal by moving to live in Wales. For twenty years, he and Phyllis Playter made their home in Corwen, Meirionnydd, where Powys immersed himself in the language, history and mythology of the country. He also made the acquaintance of several eminent Welsh academics and writers, including Iorwerth Peate, the founder of the Welsh Folk Museum, and Gwyn Jones, Viking scholar and translator of the Mabiniogion. Powys's two late masterpieces, Owen Glendower (1940) and Porius (1951), belong to this period. In 1955 he and Playter moved to a quarryman’s cottage at Blaenau Ffestiniog. John Cowper Powys died at the Memorial Hospital, Blaenau Ffestiniog, on 17 June 1963.
Yr oedd D. J. Williams (1885-1970), Abergwaun, yn llenor a chenedlaetholwr.
Ganwyd David John Williams ar 26 Mehefin 1885 yn ffermdy Penrhiw Fawr ym mhlwyf Llansawel, yn fab i John a Sarah Williams (née Morgans), ac yn 1891 symudodd y teulu i Abernant, Rhydcymerau.
Mynychodd Ysgol Gynradd Rhydcymerau, 1891-1898. Rhwng 1902 a 1906 bu D. J. Williams yn gweithio fel glöwr yn Ferndale, Cwm Rhondda; Y Betws, Rhydaman; a Blaendulais. Cyn hynny bu'n gweithio ar y tir. Yn 1906 bu'n ddisgybl yn ysgol ragbaratoawl Mr Stephens, Llanybydder, ac yn 1908 fe'i penodwyd yn athro heb drwydded yn Ysgol Llandrillo yn Sir Feirionnydd. Mynychodd Ysgol yr Hen Goleg, Caerfyrddin, o dan Joseph Harry, 1910-1911, ac yn 1911 aeth i Brifysgol Cymru, Aberystwyth gan raddio mewn Cymraeg yn 1914, a Saesneg yn 1915. Bu'n allweddol mewn sefydlu cylchgrawn Y Wawr, cylchgrawn Cymraeg cyntaf Prifysgol Cymru ac fe'i penodwyd yn olygydd cyntaf. Enillodd Ysgoloriaeth Meyricke i Goleg yr Iesu, Rhydychen, am ysgrifennu traethawd ar 'The nature of literary creation' gan raddio mewn Saesneg yn 1918. Bu'n dysgu Cymraeg yn Ysgol Lewis Pengam am dri mis yn 1918. Yn 1919 fe'i penodwyd yn athro Saesneg ac Ymarfer Corff yn Ysgol Ramadeg Abergwaun ac yn athro Cymraeg yno o 1937 nes iddo ymddeol yn 1945.
Priododd Jane (Siân) Evans, a oedd yn chwaer i Wil Ifan, ar 24 Rhagfyr 1925, a symud i 49 High Street (a fu gynt yn dafarn y Bristol Trader), Abergwaun, a dyfodd yn fan cyfarfod i ffrindiau lu. Bu'n feirniad cyson ar gystadlaethau rhyddiaith yn yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol, ac yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Llanrwst 1951 yr oedd yn un o feirniaid y fedal ryddiaith. Lluniodd ei feirniadaeth gyntaf tra yng ngharchar Wormwood Scrubs ar gyfer cystadleuaeth y stori fer yn Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Machynlleth 1937. Yr oedd yn un o'r tri a fu'n gyfrifol am losgi'r Ysgol Fomio yn Llŷn ac fe'i carcharwyd am naw mis fel canlyniad. Ym mlynyddoedd olaf ei ddyddiau bu'n gefnogwr i ymdrechion Cymdeithas yr Iaith dros hawliau'r Gymraeg.
Bu'n ymwneud â'r Blaid Lafur cyn ymuno â'r Blaid Genedlaethol Gymreig pan ffurfiwyd hi yn 1925. Yn Ysgol Haf Plaid Cymru a gynhaliwyd yn Abergwaun yn 1964 cafwyd cyfarfod i anrhydeddu D. J. Williams a Siân ei wraig, a darllenodd Waldo Williams ei gywydd mawl iddo.
Bu D. J. Williams yn Ysgrifennydd Cymrodorion Abergwaun, 1920-1928, ac yn Llywydd, 1936-1937, gan gynhyrchu sawl drama. Cafodd ei benodi yn Llywydd Undeb Prifysgolion Cymru yn 1935, ac yn 1957 cyflwynwyd gradd DLitt iddo er anrhydedd gan Brifysgol Cymru. Yn 1965 cafodd ei ethol yn Llywydd yr Academi Gymreig ac yn yr un flwyddyn cyhoeddwyd cyfrol deyrnged iddo wedi'i golygu gan ei gyfaill J. Gwyn Griffiths.
Bu farw D. J. Williams wedi iddo roi anerchiad gwladgarol mewn cyngerdd cysegredig yng Nghapel Rhydcymerau ar 4 Ionawr 1970, ac yno y cynhaliwyd yr angladd. Ar 17 Medi 1977 dadorchuddiwyd cofeb iddo yn Abernant, Rhydcymerau, gan Cassie Davies a threfnwyd gweithgareddau i'w goffáu, gan gynnwys pererindod o Gaerfyrddin i Rydcymerau gan ieuenctid y sir.
Published
Thirteen letters and postcards, 1950-1961, to Raymond Garlick, mainly concerning articles for Dock Leaves and The Anglo-Welsh Review.
The correspondents are A. W. Wade-Evans, 1955-1959 (ff. 1-4), John Cowper Powys, 5 March 1961 (ff. 5-6), D. J. Williams, Fishguard, 1950-1957 (ff. 7-13; in English and Welsh), and Huw Menai [Williams], 3 October 1951 (f. 14).
Arranged alphabetically by author at NLW.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 20896A.
Published
Corrected galley proofs, [1972], of Raymond Garlick, A Sense of Time: Poems and Antipoems, 1969-1972 (Llandysul, 1972).
The volume contains minor emendations in the hand of the author. Five verses for the poem 'Acclamation' have been crossed through (f. 21) and are omitted from the published volume.
For manuscript drafts of most of these poems see NLW MSS 24154-7.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23176D.
Published
Over sixty letters, 1969-1993, to Raymond Garlick from Elwyn Davies, journalist, teacher, translator and poet, containing personal news and comments on their own work and that of other Anglo-Welsh writers.
Arranged chronologically at NLW.
For the other half of the correspondence, see NLW MSS 21711E and 23134D.
The contents are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, 9 (Aberystwyth, 2003).
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23766B.
Published
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.
Item: 1.1 Manuscript Volume (NLW 23766B). Action: Condition reviewed. Action identifier: 4183266. Date: 20030228. Authorization: Selected for conservation. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: J. Thomas. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW23766B) : Unlabelled volume. Institution: WlAbNL.
Item: 1.2 Manuscript Volume (NLW 23766B). Action: Conserved. Action identifier: 4183266. Date: 20030923. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: G. Edwards. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW 23766B) : New cloth lettered label attached. Institution: WlAbNL.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23767A.
Published
W.H. Smith diary of Raymond Garlick for the year 1988, with one day to a page, giving an account of his daily life and interests, reminiscences and comments on the news (ff. 7-189 verso).
The volume includes references to Jon Dressel (ff. 9-164 passim), A. G. Prys-Jones (ff. 13, 183), Don Dale-Jones (ff. 13, 16 verso, 27, 41 verso), Brenda Chamberlain (ff. 16, 34), Elwyn Davies (ff. 17 verso, 171 verso, 189 verso), R. S. Thomas (ff. 20 verso, 40, 46, 71 verso-72, 83 recto-verso, 87 verso, 113, 189), Robert Minhinnick (ff. 24 verso, 35, 37 verso, 153 verso), Gillian Clarke (ff. 30, 32), Roland Mathias (ff. 34, 93 verso, 160 verso), Euros Bowen (f. 54), Jacques Wirz (ff. 72 verso, 90, 107-109 verso, 152 verso), Tony Conran (ff. 77 verso, 105 verso), Gwynfor Evans (ff. 99, 103 verso, 120), James Nicholas (f. 110), Gareth Wardell (ff. 77 verso, 126), Patrick Crotty (ff. 148, 160) and Daniel Huws (f. 170 verso), and to the birth of his grand-daughter, Alys, on 13 May (f. 73 verso). There is also a description of his cruise, in April, of the Eastern Mediterranean, including visits to Classical sites including six of the Seven Wonders of the World (ff. 55-62).
Item: 1.1 Manuscript Volume (NLW 23767A). Action: Condition reviewed. Action identifier: 4184990. Date: 20030228. Authorization: Selected for conservation. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: J. Thomas. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW23767A) : Unlabelled volume. Institution: WlAbNL.
Item: 1.2 Manuscript Volume (NLW 23767A). Action: Conserved. Action identifier: 4184990. Date: 20030923. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: G. Edwards. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW 23767A) : New cloth lettered label attached. Institution: WlAbNL.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23768B.
Published
Collins Royal diary of Raymond Garlick for the year 1989, with two days to a page, giving an account of his daily life and interests, reminiscences and comments on the news (ff. 6-110).
The volume includes references to Jon Dressel (ff. 10-104 verso passim), R. S. Thomas (ff. 11 verso, 59, 61 verso-62, 101), Lynette Roberts (f. 15), Brenda Chamberlain (ff. 21, 23), Don Dale-Jones (f. 21), George Noakes (ff. 23 verso-24), Sally Roberts Jones (f. 27), John Tripp (f. 61), Tom Ellis (f. 70), Norah Isaac (f. 79), Jonah Jones (f. 95, 102 verso) and Wyn Binding (f. 101). From 8 March (f. 25) onwards there are frequent notes on the composition of poems. The volume includes drafts of Garlick's poem 'Annus Mirabilis' (ff. 83 recto-verso) as well as a transcript of a poem by R. S. Thomas on Troy (f. 62) (see R. S. Thomas: Letters to Raymond Garlick 1951-1999, ed. by Jason Walford Davies (Llandysul, 2009), p. 136). There is also a description of a cruise, 31 May-14 June, of the Eastern Mediterranean, including visits to Venice, Istanbul, Troy, Athens and various Greek islands (ff. 49-53).
Item: 1.1 Manuscript Volume (NLW 23768B). Action: Condition reviewed. Action identifier: 4185014. Date: 20030128. Authorization: Selected for conservation. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: J. Thomas. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW23768B) : Unlabelled volume. Institution: WlAbNL.
Item: 1.2 Manuscript Volume (NLW 23768B). Action: Conserved. Action identifier: 4185014. Date: 20030923. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: G. Edwards. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW 23768B) : New cloth lettered label attached. Institution: WlAbNL.
For the Mediterranean cruise see also NLW 23769A.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23769A.
Published
Diary of Raymond Garlick containing entries for 31 May-10 June 1989, kept during a fifteen-day cruise, calling at a number of places including Venice, Italy, Split, Yugoslavia, Delphi, Greece, and Istanbul, Turkey (ff. 1-8).
Item: 1.1 Manuscript Volume (NLW 23769A). Action: Condition reviewed. Action identifier: 4185354. Date: 20030228. Authorization: Selected for conservation. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: J. Thomas. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW23769A) : Unlabelled volume. Institution: WlAbNL.
Item: 1.2 Manuscript Volume (NLW 23769A). Action: Conserved. Action identifier: 4185354. Date: 20030923. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: G. Edwards. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW 23769A) : New cloth lettered label attached. Institution: WlAbNL.
See also NLW 23768B.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23770B.
Published
Diary of Raymond Garlick containing occasional entries for the period 1 January-28 February 1990 (ff. 1-8 verso).
Item: 1.1 Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23770B). Action: Condition reviewed. Action identifier: 4185468. Date: 20031008. Authorization: Selected for conservation. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: J. Thomas. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23770B) : Plastic coated paper case binding, requires spine lettering. Institution: WlAbNL.
Item: 1.2 Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23770B). Action: Conserved. Action identifier: 4185468. Date: 2003102. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: D. Williams. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23770B) : Lettered spine. Institution: WlAbNL.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23771A.
Published
Diary of Raymond Garlick containing entries for the period 8-22 July 1990, kept during a two week cruise, mostly of the Baltic (ff. 1-51, text on rectos).
The ship called at Amsterdam, Netherlands (ff. 7-8), Leningrad (ff. 19-27) and Riga, USSR (ff. 33-36), Visby, Sweden (ff. 37-39), Copenhagen, Denmark (ff. 40-42), and Oslo, Norway (ff. 43-45). Also included are an incomplete draft of the poem 'Leningrad', dated 18 July 1990 (ff. 77 verso-8) and an apparently unpublished poem entitled 'At the Winter Palace', dated 14 July 1990 (ff. 78 verso- 9).
Item: 1.1 Manuscript Volume (NLW 23771A). Action: Condition reviewed. Action identifier: 4185478. Date: 20030228. Authorization: Selected for conservation. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: J. Thomas. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW2377A) : Unlabelled volume. Institution: WlAbNL.
Item: 1.2 Manuscript Volume (NLW 23771A). Action: Conserved. Action identifier: 4185478. Date: 20030923. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: G. Edwards. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW 23771A) : New cloth lettered label attached. Institution: WlAbNL.
For a later draft of 'Leningrad' see NLW MS 23908A, f. 43.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23772B.
Published
Diary of Raymond Garlick for the year 1991, with one week to a view, giving an account of his daily life, interests, work and comments on the news (ff. 8 verso-60 verso).
The volume includes references to Jon Dressel (ff. 11 verso-54 passim), R. S. Thomas (ff. 15 verso, 16 verso, 18, 19 verso, 20 verso, 33 verso, 59), Tony Conran (f. 18 verso), Daniel Huws (ff. 23 verso, 25), Gareth Wardell (f. 29 verso), Roland Mathias (ff. 31 verso, 32 verso, 47 verso, 53) and the Dock Leaves Group (f. 32 verso). It also describes a visit to Amsterdam, Netherlands, 12-16 April (ff. 23 recto-verso) and a cruise, 3-18 September, of the Eastern Mediterranean, calling at various locations in Greece, Turkey and Italy (ff. 43 verso-45 verso).
Item: 1.1 Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23772B). Action: Condition reviewed. Action identifier: 4185711. Date: 20030128. Authorization: Selected for conservation. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: J. Thomas. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23772B) : Unlabelled volume. Institution: WlAbNL.
Item: 1.2 Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23772B). Action: Conserved. Action identifier: 4185711. Date: 20030923. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: G. Edwards. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23772B) : New cloth lettered label attached. Institution: WlAbNL.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23773A.
Published
W.H. Smith diary of Raymond Garlick for the year 1992, with one week to view, giving an account of his daily life, interests, work and comments on the news (ff. 4 verso-42 verso, 44-57).
There are no entries for 23 July-23 August (ff. 33 verso-38). The volume includes references to Jacques Wirz (ff. 4 verso-5 verso, 15, 27, 32), Jon Dressel (ff. 7 verso-30 passim, 42-51 passim), Tony Conran (f. 12 verso), Roland Mathias (f. 13 verso, 20-21, 31 verso, 38 verso, 42 verso), Gwyn Jones (f. 23) and R. S. Thomas (ff. 55 verso-56). He also describes visits to Switzerland, 2-7 January (ff. 4 verso-5 verso), and the Netherlands, 6-12 April (ff. 18 verso-19).
Item: 1.1 Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23773A). Action: Condition reviewed. Action identifier: 4186061. Date: 20030207. Authorization: Selected for conservation. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: J. Thomas. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23773A) : Theatre ticket loose and volume needs lettering. Institution: WlAbNL.
Item: 1.2 Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23773A). Action: Conserved. Action identifier: 4186061. Date: 20040115. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: D. Williams. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23773A) : Hinged in ticket and attached gold foil lettered label. Institution: WlAbNL.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23774B.
Published
Help Desk Diary of Raymond Garlick for the year 1993, with one week to view, giving an account of his daily life, interests, work and comments on the news, 28 December 1992-31 December 1993 (ff. 2 verso-55).
There are no entries for 15-21 March (ff. 13 verso-14). The volume includes references to R. S. Thomas (ff. 4 verso, 12 verso, 46, 53 verso, 55), Seamus Heaney (f. 5 verso), Jon Dressel (ff. 7-12 verso passim, 24 verso-28 verso passim, 40 verso-44), Roland Mathias (ff. 7 verso, 10 verso-11), Jacques Wirz (ff. 27 verso-37 verso passim, 52) and the Dock Leaves Group (f. 7 verso). He also describes visits to Malta, 29 December 1992-5 January 1993 (ff. 2 verso-3 verso, with additional notes on ff. 1 verso-2), Tenerife, 16-26 April 1993 (ff. 18-19 verso), and the Netherlands, 15-18 October 1993 (ff. 44 recto-verso). Ephemera found loose inside the volume have been tipped in at the end (ff. 62 verso-64 verso).
Item: 1.1 Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23774B). Action: Condition reviewed. Action identifier: 4192714. Date: 20030207. Authorization: Selected for conservation. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: J. Thomas. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23774B) : Three loose items. Institution: WlAbNL.
Item: 1.2 Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23774B). Action: Conserved. Action identifier: 4192714. Date: 20040115. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: D. Williams. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23774B) : Hinged in loose items and attached lettered label to spine. Institution: WlAbNL.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23775B.
Published
Collins Royal diary of Raymond Garlick for the year 1994, with one week to view, giving an account of his daily life, interests, work and comments on the news (ff. 1-53).
The volume includes references to Jon Dressel (ff. 4 verso-9 passim, 20-53 passim), Roland Mathias (f. 8 verso), T. Harri Jones (f. 23), John Cowper Powys (ff. 50 recto-verso) and R. S. Thomas (ff. 9 verso, 51 recto-verso) and to the death of Elwyn Davies (ff. 8, 32) and the illness and death of D. Tudor Bevan (ff. 25-46 passim, 62 verso). He also describes visits to Yorkshire, 9-14 April (ff. 15-16), and Tenerife, 5-21 September (ff. 36 verso-38 verso). A quote from Andrew Motion, Philip Larkin: A writer's life (London, 1993), p. 214, is on f. 61. A number of newspaper cuttings have been pasted into the volume, including ff. i verso, 62 recto-verso.
Item: 1.1 Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23775B). Action: Condition reviewed. Action identifier: 4193557. Date: 20030228. Authorization: Selected for conservation. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: J. Thomas. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23775B) : Unlabelled volume. Institution: WlAbNL.
Item: 1.2 Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23775B). Action: Conserved. Action identifier: 4193557. Date: 20030923. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: G. Edwards. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23775B) : New cloth lettered label attached. Institution: WlAbNL.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23776B.
Published
Diary of Raymond Garlick for the year 1995, with one week to view, giving an account of his daily life, interests, work and comments on the news (ff. 1-53).
The volume includes references to John Cowper Powys (f. 3 verso), Jon Dressel (ff. 5 verso-53 passim), Meic Stephens (ff. 13-41 passim, 47), R. S. Thomas (ff. 14 verso, 42, 51), Andrew Sachs (ff. 22, 23 verso-24, 34), Jacques Wirz (ff. 27-28, 48) and Gwynfor Evans (ff. 28 verso, 35 verso), as well as to the illness and death of Glyn Jones (ff. 9 verso-16 verso passim) and the disposition of his papers (ff. 17-47 passim). A few newspaper cuttings have been pasted into the volume (ff. 1, 7, 47).
Item: 1.1 Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23776B). Action: Condition reviewed. Action identifier: 4193792. Date: 20030128. Authorization: Selected for conservation. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: J. Thomas. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23776B) : Unlabelled volume. Institution: WlAbNL.
Item: 1.2 Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23776B). Action: Conserved. Action identifier: 4193792. Date: 20030923. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: G. Edwards. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23776B) : New cloth lettered label attached. Institution: WlAbNL.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23777B.
Published
Oxfam Desk Diary 1996, with one week to view, belonging to Raymond Garlick, giving an account of his daily life, interests, work and comments on the news (ff. 1 verso-16 verso, 19-55 verso).
The volume includes references to Gordon Stuart (f. 2), Don Dale-Jones (ff. 6, 27 verso, 28 verso), Brenda Chamberlain (ff. 8 recto-verso), Leslie Norris (f. 9), Jon Dressel (ff. 20, 23, 25, 32 verso-36 verso passim, 47 verso-49), Sam Adams (ff. 23, 24), R. S. Thomas (ff. 26, 31 verso, 36 verso, 47-50 passim, 54), Wyn Binding (ff. 29 verso, 38 verso-46 passim), Jacques Wirz (ff. 31-36 verso passim, 53), Gwynfor Evans (f. 34), Kusha Petts (f. 43) and Roland Mathias (ff. 48 verso-49 verso). A few newspaper cuttings have been pasted into the volume (ff. 8, 17, 25, 31).
Item: 1.1 Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23777B). Action: Condition reviewed. Action identifier: 4194808. Date: 20030228. Authorization: Selected for conservation. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: J. Thomas. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23777B) : Unlabelled volume. Institution: WlAbNL.
Item: 1.2 Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23777B). Action: Conserved. Action identifier: 4194808. Date: 20030923. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: G. Edwards. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23777B) : New cloth lettered label attached. Institution: WlAbNL.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23778B.
Published
Diary of Raymond Garlick for the year 1997 with one week to view, giving an account of his daily life and interests and comments on the news (ff. 1 verso-53 verso).
The volume includes references to Jan Morris (f. 2), Pennar Davies (f. 4), Jon Dressel (ff. 4-48 passim), Ioan Bowen Rees (f. 6), Labi Siffre (ff. 7 verso, 8 verso), Janet Dubé (ff. 9 recto-verso), Norah Isaac (ff. 10, 45), Glyn Jones (f. 12 verso), Bernard Mitchell (ff. 13, 17), R. S. Thomas (ff. 14 verso, 17-18, 42, 49, 53), Walford Davies (ff. 42, 48 verso, 49), Roland Mathias (ff. 46 recto-verso) and Brenda Chamberlain (ff. 50, 51 verso). A few newspaper cuttings have been pasted in on ff. 5 verso, 13, 16, 57.
Item: 1.1 Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23778B). Action: Condition reviewed. Action identifier: 4195015. Date: 20030228. Authorization: Selected for conservation. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: J. Thomas. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23778B) : Unlabelled volume. Institution: WlAbNL.
Item: 1.2 Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23778B). Action: Conserved. Action identifier: 4195015. Date: 20030923. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: G. Edwards. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23778B) : New cloth lettered label attached. Institution: WlAbNL.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23779B.
Published
Diary of Raymond Garlick for the year 1998 with one week to view, giving an account of his daily life and interests and comments on the news (ff. 1-53).
The volume includes references to John Cowper Powys (ff. 1 verso, 26 verso, 33-34, 36 verso), Jon Dressel (ff. 2-17 passim, 22 verso, 38 verso), Ted Hughes (ff. 3 verso, 45), Roland Mathias (f. 10), R. S. Thomas (ff. 11 verso, 23-24, 49), Siân Phillips (ff. 27 recto-verso, 28 verso) and Phyllis Playter (ff. 33, 34, 36 verso) and to the death of Wyn Binding (ff. 1 verso, 7, 8). Also included are details of his trip to St Louis, Missouri, and Pella, Iowa, in April to receive an honorary doctorate (ff. 15 verso-17). Two press cuttings (ff. 42a, 50a) have been tipped into the volume.
Item: 1.1 Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23779B). Action: Condition reviewed. Action identifier: 4196422. Date: 20030207. Authorization: Selected for conservation. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: J. Thomas. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23779B) : F50-51 detached. Institution: WlAbNL.
Item: 1.2 Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23779B). Action: Conserved. Action identifier: 4196422. Date: 20040115. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: D. Williams. Status: Manuscript Volume (NLW MS 23779B) : Reattach f50 & f51, letter and attach label. Institution: WlAbNL.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23908A.
Published
A notebook containing drafts of poems by Raymond Garlick, 1989-1999, the majority of which are published.
The volume is a combination of manuscript drafts, along with pasted in typescript drafts. They include some thirty of the forty-one poems published in Travel Notes (Llandysul, 1992) (ff. 1-35, 36 verso-43).
Item: 1.1. Action: Condition reviewed. Action identifier: 004302050. Date: 20040421. Authorization: Selected for conservation. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: J. Thomas. Status: Manuscript : Unlabeled case binding. Institution: WlAbNL.
Item: 1.2. Action: Conserved. Action identifier: 004302050. Date: 20050826. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: G. Edwards. Status: Manuscript : Case binding new lettered label attached to spine. Institution: WlAbNL.
For drafts of other poems published in Travel Notes (Llandysul, 1992) see NLW MSS 24163-4.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23909B.
Published
Diary of Raymond Garlick for the year 2000 with two days to a page, giving an account of his daily life and interests and comments on the news (ff. 7 verso-112).
The volume includes references to Lynette Roberts (f. 23 recto-verso), Jon Dressel (ff. 32 verso-33, 45, 64 verso, 68 verso-70, 73 recto-verso, 97, 103) and to R. S. Thomas, who died in September (ff. 9, 24 verso, 84 verso-6 verso, 97 verso, 112). Also included is a short summary of the previous year's events, written 31 December 1999 (ff. 6 verso-7 verso). Various cuttings have been pasted into the volume (inside front cover and ff. 24 verso, 42, 76, 91, 95 verso) and a passport application receipt tipped in at the end (f. 115).
Item: 1.1. Action: Condition reviewed. Action identifier: 004302051. Date: 20040421. Authorization: Selected for conservation. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: J. Thomas. Status: Manuscript : Unlabeled case binding. Institution: WlAbNL.
Item: 1.2. Action: Conserved. Action identifier: 004302051. Date: 20050826. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: G. Edwards. Status: Manuscript : Case binding new label lettered and attached to spine. Institution: WlAbNL.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23910B.
Published
Diary of Raymond Garlick for the year 2001 with one week to view, giving an account of his daily life and interests and comments on the news (ff. 8 verso-60 verso).
The volume includes references to R. S. Thomas (ff. 11, 15, 17, 47 verso), Dafydd Rowlands (f. 25), Jacques Wirz (ff. 27, 30, 34-35) and John Cowper Powys (ff. 33 verso, 38 verso). Various cuttings, photographs and other items have been either pasted into the volume (inside front cover and ff. 1, 12, 23 verso, 30 verso, 36, 45 verso) or tipped in at the end (ff. 67-69).
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Item: 1.2. Action: Conserved. Action identifier: 004302052. Date: 20050826. Authorizing institution: NLW. Action agent: J. Thomas. Status: Manuscript : Case binding new lettered label attached. Institution: WlAbNL.
Title based on contents.
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23936E.
Jonah Jones (1919-2004) was an artist and writer. – Leonard [Jonah] Jones was born on 17 February 1919 near Wardley in County Durham and was the first child of Norman, a miner, and Florence Jones. He received his secondary education in Jarrow and attended night classes at the King Edward School of Art in Newcastle before he was called up for National Service. He was a member of the 224 Parachute Field Ambulance in the 6th Airborne Vision during the Second World War, 1940-46, and took part in the Ardennes campaign. In 1947 he married Judith Maro and settled near Penrhyndeudraeth in 1948. They had two sons and a daughter. He worked with Brenda Chamberlain and John Petts at the Caseg Press in 1947. David Jones, the artist-poet was a great influence on his work. In 1948 he established his own workshop at Pentrefelin, Gwynedd, and moved in 1966 to a new house near Portmeirion. His early work can be seen at Portmeirion. Between 1974 and 1978 he was the Director of the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and Gregynog arts fellow in 1981. His workshop was important to his working philosophy. In 1991 he moved his studio to Llantrisant. – Jonah Jones received a number of commissions for stained glass, sculpture and inscriptions and his work has been exhibited widely. In 1970 he was responsible for the David Lloyd George panels in Westminster Abbey and a memorial plaque also for Dylan Thomas in 1982. He also created wall sculptures for Coleg Harlech, Mold Crown Court and North Wales Constabulary in Colwyn Bay and a plaque for the Taliesin Arts Centre in 1984. He has produced a number of portrait busts, including John Cowper Powys, Bertrand Russell, Sir Huw Wheldon, Sir Clough Williams Ellis, Gwynfor Evans and Gwenlyn Parry, and also painted in watercolour. The bronze figures of Sir O. M. Edwards and his son Sir Ifan ab Owen Edwards in Llanuwchllyn in 1982 were created by him. One of his favourite materials was Welsh slate. In 1983 he received the Queen’s Jubilee Medal for service in the arts. - His two novels A tree may fall and Zorn were published in 1980 and 1986 respectively and a biography Clough Williams-Ellis – architect of Portmeirion was published in 1996. A retrospective exhibition was held in St David’s Hall in Cardiff, 2002. Jonah Jones died on 29 November 2004. In 2006 Scene and Word Limited was established by his family in order to develop ‘Cofio Jonah Jones’, a project to record and celebrate his life and career.
Published
Forty-nine manuscript and typescript letters and cards, 1955-2003, from Jonah Jones to Raymond Garlick, containing personal news and matters relating to work (ff. 1-39, 44-45, 48-55, 57-69); along with seven letters from Jones' wife Judith Maro, 1972-1973, 1991 (ff. 40-43, 46-47, 56).
The earlier letters (ff. 1-31) mainly concern articles for Dock Leaves and Anglo-Welsh Review and include captions for plates illustrating sculptures by Jones (ff. 5-6; see Dock Leaves, 7 (Winter 1956), between pp. 32-33) and the manuscript for Jones' article 'Kyffin Williams' (ff. 10-13; see Dock Leaves, 8 (Summer 1957), 42-43). Also included are Jones' curriculum vitae, [2003] (f. 65), a poem, [2003] (f. 66), and obituaries, 2004-2005 (ff. 70-72).
Arranged chronologically at NLW.
Title based on contents.
Formerly Garlick MSS 2 (ff. 1-30, 128-141) and 15 (ff. 31-127).
Writer and artist Brenda Chamberlain (1912-1971) was born and raised in Bangor, Caernarfonshire, and educated privately before embarking on her art studies at the Royal Academy, London in 1931. In 1935 Chamberlain married the artist John Petts. The following year the couple moved to Llanllechid, where they set up the Caseg Press, producing postcards and bookplates, and also the Caseg Broadsheets - featuring poetry by Chamberlain and others - with the poet and writer Alun Lewis. Chamberlain's marriage to Petts ended in 1946. Thereafter she lived briefly in Germany before settling on Bardsey Island, where she wrote and painted until, in 1961, she moved to the Greek island of Idhra. In 1967 Chamberlain returned to Bangor, where she died in 1971. Amongst Chamberlain's major published works are the poetic anthology The Green Heart (London, 1958) (dedicated to Karl von Laer), Tide-Race (London, 1962), an account of her life on Bardsey, her only novel The Water Castle (London, 1964), A Rope of Vines (London, 1965), chronicling her time on Ydra, Poems With Drawings (London, 1969), and Alun Lewis and the Making of the Caseg Broadsheets (London, 1969).
John Cledwyn Hughes (1920-1978), novelist, was born in Llansanffraid, Montgomeryshire, where his family had farmed for generations. He was a qualified hospital pharmacist, and worked in Yorkshire and Liverpool before settling in Arthog, Merionethshire, in 1947, as a full-time writer. He married Alyna and they had two daughters. He wrote numerous books, among them The Different Drummer (1947), The Inn Closes for Christmas (1947), Wennon (1948) and The Civil Strangers (1949). His topographical books, A Wanderer in North Wales (1949) and Portrait of Snowdonia (1967) were widely acclaimed. He also wrote children's books, including a collection of short stories, The King who Lived on Jelly (1961). He died at Arthog in 1978.
Arthur Glyn Prys-Jones (1888-1987) was an Anglo-Welsh poet, writer and educationalist. He was born on 7 March 1888 in Denbigh. His mother died in 1895 and his father remarried and moved the family to Pontypridd, Glamorgan, in 1898. At the age of 13 he went to Llandovery College, where he appears to have known the poet Dudley G. Davies (1891-1981). In 1908 he won a scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford, to read history, graduating in 1912; he became friends with T. E. Lawrence there. He went to teach in Macclesfield, Walsall and then Dulwich College, London. In 1919 he married Betty Gibbon of Pontypridd, shortly before being appointed Assistant Inspector of Schools for Carmarthenshire, later Staff Inspector for Secondary Education in Wales. He settled in Cardiff where, in 1932, he became one of the founders of the Little Theatre for which he wrote plays. He retired in 1949 and was awarded an OBE. He left Cardiff in 1951, moving to Wimbledon. He produced six volumes of his own poetry, Poems of Wales (Oxford, 1923), Green Places (Llandysul, 1948), A Little Nonsense (Cowbridge, 1954), High Heritage (Llandybie, 1969), Valedictory Verses (Llandysul, 1978) and More Nonsense (Cowbridge, 1984). He also wrote prose, including Gerald of Wales (London, 1955) and The Story of Carmarthenshire (2 vols, Llandybie, 1959, 1972). He edited Welsh Poets (London, 1917), an anthology of Anglo-Welsh poets, and co-edited National Songs of Wales (London, 1959). He regularly wrote reviews in the Western Mail and from 1937 to 1960 broadcast frequently on BBC radio. In 1970 he was elected President of the Welsh Academy's English-language section. He and his wife Betty had two children, David and Barbara. She died in 1976 and he spent his last years in Kingston-upon-Thames, dying there on 21 February 1987, aged 98. Collected Poems (Llandysul, 1988), edited by his friend Don Dale-Jones (b. 1935), was published after his death.
Published
Eighty-four letters, 1944-1985, to Raymond Garlick from Brenda Chamberlain, 1944-1948, 1957-[1958] (ff. 1-30), Cledwyn Hughes, 1958-1970 (ff. 31-47), A. J. Prys-Jones, 1950-1985 (ff. 48-127), and J[ohn] Redwood-Anderson, 1955-1958 (ff. 128-141), discussing a variety of matters, both personal and work related.
Some of the Brenda Chamberlain letters refer to her life on Bardsey Island.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent at NLW.
For ten letters, c. 1958-1966, from Garlick to Cledwyn Hughes see NLW, Cledwyn Hughes (Novelist) Manuscripts 78-79, 81. For six letters, 1968-1987, from Garlick to A. G. Prys-Jones see NLW, A. G. Prys-Jones Papers 208-213.
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Garlick MS 15 (now ff. 31-127) formerly under an embargo: prior to 2011 they were not available for consultation without permission of the donor.
Title based on contents.
Formerly Garlick MS 18.
Published
A notebook containing a diary by Raymond Garlick, 24 July-17 August 1950, recording his pilgrimage with his wife Elin from Wales to Rome, via France and Italy, during the Holy Year of 1950 (ff. 3-31, rectos only). The couple travelled mainly by hitch-hiking.
Garlick also collected stamps and signatures from various religious houses and churches on the route for an 'Ecclesiastical Passport' (ff. 86-90 verso, inverted text). Pasted into the volume are letters of introduction from the Bishop of Menevia and the Garlicks' parish priest in Pembroke Dock (inside front and back covers). Also included is a draft of Garlick's editorial for Dock Leaves, No. 3 (Michaelmas 1950), 1-5, drawing on his travels to give his impressions of France and Italy (ff. 43-51). Miscellaneous items of ephemera found loose in the volume have been tipped in on empty leaves (ff. 32-38); these relate to the pilgrimage, except for two receipts from a visit to Spain in August 1951 (ff. 37-38).
Leaves torn out after ff. 54 and 55; part of f. 56 cut away.
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Formerly Garlick MS 11.
Published
Diary of Raymond Garlick, Blaenau Ffestiniog, for 1956, with one day to a page, containing entries for 1 January-3 May (ff. 2-62 verso), with occasional scattered entries thereafter, mostly concerning personal and family matters, his writing and broadcasting, teaching at Ffestiniog County School and his activities in the Catholic Church.
There are references throughout to Garlick's literary and other friends, most notably John Cowper Powys and his wife Phyllis Playter (ff. 3-27 verso passim, 39 verso, 42 verso, 53, 55, 59 verso, 151 recto-verso, 158 verso). Among the school pupils mentioned are the lexicographer Bruce Griffiths (ff. 7, 33 verso) and the actor Grey Evans (f. 16 verso). The volume contains drafts and fair copies of several poems, including thirteen stanzas of 'Blaenau Observed', the poem for radio, transmitted 14 June (ff. 36, 52 verso, 53 verso); the unfinished 'Octave of a sonnet on the Scourging of Our Lord' (f. 44 verso); the sonnets 'The Crowning with Thorns' (f. 45 verso), 'The October Risings' (f. 153) and 'The November Suppressions' (ff. 155 verso, 158); eleven stanzas of a poem concerning a pilgrimage to Lourdes (ff. 12 verso, 13 verso-14 verso); and a single verse (f. 56 verso). 'Blaenau Observed' was published as a pamphlet in 1956, reprinted by the Dock Leaves Press in 1957 and was included in A Sense of Europe: Collected Poems 1954-1968 (Llandysul, 1968); 'The November Suppressions' was published in The Welsh Nation, 10 November 1956, p. 1 (see cutting on f. 158).
One leaf excised between ff. 8 and 9.
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Not to be consulted without Raymond Garlick's consent for 20 years from date of accession (this restriction expired in 1997).
Title based on contents.
Formerly Garlick MS 12.
Published
Diary of Raymond Garlick, Blaenau Ffestiniog, for 1957, with two days to a page, containing entries for 27 December 1956-31 December 1957 (pp. 4-215), mostly concerning personal and family matters, his writing and broadcasting, teaching at Ffestiniog County School and his activities in the Catholic Church.
There are references throughout to Garlick's literary and other friends, most notably John Cowper Powys and his wife Phyllis Playter, including preparations for a radio broadcast on Powys in which Garlick participated (pp. 4-150 passim, 183, 186-187). Among the school pupils mentioned are Grey Evans (the actor), who, with his father, accompanied Garlick on an Easter trip to Rome (pp. 8, 44, 46, 67-72, 152), and former pupil Bruce [Griffiths] (p. 11). Incidents recounted include a row with the artist Frederick Konekamp (p. 45), and Dyfnallt Morgan winning the crown at the National Eisteddfod, with Aneirin Talfan [Davies]'s comments on the Gorsedd (p. 131). The family briefly took in as a lodger Susan Russell, Viscountess Amberley, the daughter of the poet Vachel Lindsay and estranged wife of Bertrand Russell's son (pp. 183-199 passim). The volume contains fair copies of parts of three poems, comprising the first verse of 'Monsignor Tudor' (p. 95), four verses of 'Therapy' (p. 101) and a prayer, 'Heart of Jesus, in you I place…' (p. 144); 'Monsignor Tudor' was collected in A Sense of Europe: Collected Poems 1954-1968 (Llandysul, 1968), p. 85. The volume also contains various cuttings, memoranda and accounts (pp. 1, 3, 125, 220-237 and inside back cover).
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Title based on contents.
Formerly Garlick MS 1.
Published
Proofs of the first edition of Raymond Garlick, An Introduction to Anglo-Welsh Literature (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1970), used by the author as copy for the second edition, published 1972.
Each folio consists of two pages printed side-by-side, comprising proofs of the title page and pp. 1-97 (ff. 4-52). These are preceded by a new typescript prologue, dated May 1972 (ff. 1-3) and followed by an author’s note (pasted in on f. 53). Minor corrections and emendations have been supplied by the author in red and black ink; more substantial alterations and additions to the text have been supplied in typescript as paste overs or as paper flaps attached to page margins (ff. 8, 10-11, 13, 28-30, 32, 34, 39, 42, 50).
For a corrected typescript draft of the first edition see NLW MS 20781E.
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Title based on contents.
Formerly Garlick MS 3.
Published
A volume in the hand of Raymond Garlick containing drafts of some sixteen poems, dated April 1969-January 1970.
Eight of the poems are noted as having been published in Poetry Wales, two in Akros and one in Clw. Ten of the poems were included in Raymond Garlick, A Sense of Time: Poems and Antipoems 1969-1972 (Llandysul, 1972). Four poems are possibly unpublished.
Four leaves missing.
Deposited June 1972.
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Formerly Garlick MS 4.
Published
A volume in the hand of Raymond Garlick containing drafts of twenty-one poems, dated March-December 1970.
Thirteen of the poems are noted as having been published in various periodicals, mainly Poetry Wales. Seventeen of the poems were included in Raymond Garlick, A Sense of Time: Poems and Antipoems 1969-1972 (Llandysul, 1972); the remaining four poems are possibly unpublished.
Seven leaves missing.
Deposited June 1972.
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Formerly Garlick MS 5.
Published
A notebook, 1970-[?1972], in the hand of Raymond Garlick containing manuscript drafts of articles and a letter, 1970-[?1972] (ff. 1-18, 30-35) and some seven poems, dated January-March 1971 (ff. 19 verso-20, 22 verso-29).
Four of the poems were published in Poetry Wales and were included in Raymond Garlick, A Sense of Time: Poems and Antipoems 1969-1972 (Llandysul, 1972); while 'Dial-a-Panegyric' (ff. 22 verso-23) was submitted to the Welsh Arts Council's Dial-a-Poem scheme. The articles are 'A Short Walk in the Desert' (ff. 1-9), published in Planet, 4 (February/March 1971), 28-33, and 'Contempt' (ff. 30-35), published, in Welsh, as 'Dirmyg' in Barn, 112 (February 1972), 90-91, and reviews of Donald Attwater, A Cell of Good Living: The Life, Works and Opinions of Eric Gill (1969) (ff. 9 verso-13), published in The Anglo-Welsh Review, 19 (Spring 1971), 300-302, and of Brynmor Jones, A Bibliography of Anglo-Welsh Literature 1900-1965 (ff. 13 verso-17), published in Poetry Wales, 6.3 (Winter 1970), 56-59. The volume also includes a list of his poems published since 1968 (ff. 18 verso-19). A cutting of Garlick's letter published in the Welsh Nation, November 1970 (f. 17 verso) and a typescript of 'Dial-a-Panegyric' (f. 22 verso) have been pasted into the volume.
Deposited June 1972.
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Formerly Garlick MS 6.
Published
A volume in the hand of Raymond Garlick containing manuscript drafts, together with a few pasted-in typescripts, of nineteen poems, dated 2 January 1971-26 April 1972.
Six of the poems were published in Poetry Wales, Planet and Poems '73, while 'Acclamation' (ff. 1-2, 3, 4-6, 7-8, 9-14 (rectos only), 24 recto-verso) was broadcast on BBC Radio on 24 February 1972. Thirteen of the poems, including 'Documentary' (ff. 16-22, rectos only) and a revised version of 'Acclamation', were included in Raymond Garlick, A Sense of Time: Poems and Antipoems 1969-1972 (Llandysul, 1972). Five poems are apparently unpublished. Also included are two letters from Meic Stephens, Welsh Arts Council, 31 December 1970 and 18 February 1971, concerning 'Acclamation' (pasted in inside the front cover and on f. 15 respectively). A copy of Dom Julian Stonor, Six Welsh Martyrs (London: Salesian Press, 1961) has been pasted in inside the back cover.
Most leaves detached from covers; f. 24 originally between ff. 1 and 2.
Deposited June 1972.
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Title based on contents.
Formerly Garlick MS 7.
Published
A notebook in the hand of Raymond Garlick containing drafts of thirteen poems, dated April 1972-July 1973.
Eleven of the poems were published in the Anglo-Welsh Review, Poetry Wales and Planet; the remaining two were contributed to the Welsh Arts Council's Dial-a-Poem scheme. The poems were all collected in Raymond Garlick, Incense: Poems 1972-1975 (Llandysul, 1976). A single verse of an unfinished poem is on f. 13; it is crossed out and is apparently unpublished.
Folios 1-7 loose; several leaves torn out after f. 15.
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Formerly Garlick MS 8.
Published
A notebook, 1973-1974, in the hand of Raymond Garlick containing manuscript and typescript drafts of sixteen poems, dated July 1973-May 1974 (ff. 3-33 (rectos only), 40 verso, 41 verso), and of articles and letters (ff. 2, 33 verso-62 (text mostly on rectos)).
Typescript drafts of six of the poems have been pasted in on ff. 14, 15, 16, 19, 21, 23, 26, 32, 33. Some of the poems were published in Poetry Wales and elsewhere; twelve were collected in Raymond Garlick, Incense: Poems 1972-1975 (Llandysul, 1976); the remaining four are apparently unpublished. Also included in the volume are drafts of his articles 'The Shapes of Thoughts', published in Poetry Wales, 9.2 (Autumn 1973), 40-48 (ff. 46 verso, 47 verso-51), and 'The Two Literatures of Wales', published in Paedwizer nei Wales (= It Beaken: Tydskrift fan de Fryske Akademy, 36.1/2 (1974)), pp. 26-29 (ff. 42 verso, 43 verso-45); a lecture entitled 'Children's Books with a Welsh Setting', given at Aberystwyth, September 1973 (ff. 51 verso-58 passim); an introduction for a brochure on Trinity College, Carmarthen, 1974 (ff. 38 verso-39 verso); drafts of five letters concerning the Welsh language campaign and the courts (ff. 2, 33 verso-35 verso (versos only), 59 verso, 60 verso-62) and R. S. Thomas (ff. 36 verso, 37 verso), June 1973-May 1974; and a list of his poems written 'Since A Sense of Time', giving, where appropriate, details of publication (f. 62 verso, inside back cover).
For letters re. the Welsh language campaign see also NLW ex 3038.
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Title based on contents.
Formerly Garlick MS 9.
Published
A volume in the hand of Raymond Garlick containing manuscript drafts of five poems, dated September-November 1974, all of which were included in Raymond Garlick, Incense: Poems 1972-1975 (Llandysul, 1976).
Folios 1-11 loose.
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Title based on contents.
Formerly Garlick MS 10.
Published
Corrected proofs, [?1976], of Raymond Garlick, Incense: Poems 1972-1975 (Llandysul, 1976), containing corrections to punctuation, typographical errors and pagination, together with minor revisions to the poems 'Fanfare for Europe' (ff. 11-12) and 'Incense' (f. 64), all supplied in red ink by the author.
For drafts of thirty-one of the thirty-three poems (with the exception of 'Etching' and 'Thug') see NLW MSS 24158-60, 24164D.
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Title based on contents.
Formerly Garlick MS 14.
Published
A notebook in the hand of Raymond Garlick containing manuscript drafts, together with forty-four pages of pasted in typescript drafts, of thirty-three poems, dated January 1977-May 1978 (ff. 3-93 verso).
Some twenty poems were published in the Anglo-Welsh Review, Poetry Wales and Planet, while sixteen appeared in Raymond Garlick, Collected Poems 1946-1986 (Llandysul, 1987). Eleven poems appear to be unpublished. Also included loose in the volume is a list of the contents of the volume, recording publication details (ff. 96-97).
One leaf removed between ff. 75 and 76.
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Title based on contents.
Formerly Garlick MS 16.
Published
A notebook, 1978-1989, in the hand of Raymond Garlick containing manuscript drafts and sixty pages of pasted in typescript drafts of twenty-five poems, consisting of two groups: fourteen poems, dated June 1978-August 1979 (ff. 3-50), and a further eleven poems, dated March-April 1989 (ff. 50 verso-73 verso).
Of the earlier poems, five were published in Planet and seven appeared in Raymond Garlick, Collected Poems 1946-1986 (Llandysul, 1987), most notably 'Notes for an autobiography' (ff. 31 verso-50); the remaining six are apparently unpublished. Of the eleven later poems six were published in Planet and the New Welsh Review; they were all subsequently collected in Raymond Garlick, Travel Notes: New Poems (Llandysul, 1992).
Leaves removed after ff. 50 and 54.
For the succeeding volume, begun 5 April 1989, see NLW MS 23908A.
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Title based on contents.
Formerly Garlick MS 17.
Some poems dated using GR's poetry notebooks (NLW MSS 23908A, 24163A) and his diary for 1989 (NLW MS 23768B).
Published
Holograph first drafts of fourteen poems by Raymond Garlick, 1975-[1990], comprising 'Adam in Eden', [?1975] (ff. 1-2; f. 2 is a corrected typescript), 'Ebb Tide', 19-21 October 1975 (f. 3), 'The Art Lesson', 17-18 December 1975 (f. 4), 'Where?', 5-7 January 1976 (f. 5), 'Portrait of a Young Dog as an Artist', [1975x1978] (ff. 6-8), 'Epigrams', [1975x1978] (f. 9), 'The Hottentot Fig', [24 March 1989] (ff. 10-11), 'The Comforters', [17 April 1989] (ff. 12-13), 'The Heiress', [21-22 April 1989] (ff. 14-15), 'Fellow Travellers', 28 July 1989 (ff. 16-17), 'Book Review' (first stanza only), [1 August 1989] (f. 18), 'The Odyssey Continues' (first two stanzas only), [?28 August 1989] (f. 19), 'The Exile', [?June 1990] (f. 20), and 'In the Jungle', [?June 1990] (f. 21).
'Adam in Eden' was published in Incense: Poems 1972-1975 (Llandysul, 1976); 'Portrait of a Young Dog as an Artist' was published in Planet, 41 (June 1978), 29; 'Ebb Tide', 'The Art Lesson' and 'Where?' were published in Collected Poems 1946-1986 (Llandysul, 1987); 'Epigrams' is apparently unpublished. The eight later poems (ff. 11-21) all appeared in Travel Notes: New Poems (Llandysul, 1992). Also included is a typescript by the author, listing the contents; the order given has now been superseded (f. 22).
Arranged chronologically at NLW.
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