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- 1953-1958 / (Creation)
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14 ff. Placed in melinex sleeves within ringed box at NLW.
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Margiad Evans (1909-1958), born Peggy Eileen Whistler (later Williams), was a novelist, poet and artist, from Uxbridge, London. She moved to Bridstow, near Ross-on-Wye in 1920, where she lived until 1936. In 1940 she married Michael Williams and moved to Llangarron, staying there for eight years. She then moved to Gloucestershire and later to Sussex. Her first novel, published in 1932, was Country Dance, she then had three further novels published, The Wooden Doctor (1932), Turf or Stone (1934) and Creed (1936). She also published two autobiographical works, Autobiography (1943) and A Ray of Darkness (1952); a collection of short stories The Old and the Young (1948); and two volumes of poetry, Poems from Obscurity (1947) and A Candle Ahead (1956). She died in 1958.
Archival history
Also included is a letter, [1958] from Whistler to Dorothy Hancox of Cheltenham enclosing manuscript poems (f. 2), and an invoice from Hancox's bookdealer husband, Alan, 22 July 1958, selling this collection to Harry Walton of Covington, Virginia (f. 1).
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Bloomsbury Book Auctions (Harry and Virginia Walton sale); London; Purchased at auction, lot 274; 14 May 2009; 004659119.
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Scope and content
A collection of holograph poems, 1953-1956, by Peggy Eileen Whistler ('Margiad Evans'), including 'The Country Churchyard' (1955) (f. 3), 'God's Love' (1953) (f. 4), 'Autumn' ([1956]) (f. 5), 'Bather' ([1953]) (f. 7), 'The Old Name' ([1953]) (f. 8), and 'Cherry Orchard in Bloom' (f. 9).
Other fragments, also in Whistler's hand, include a page of an original play 'Dear Desdemona' (f. 10) [cf. NLW MS 23373E & NLW, Margiad Evans MS 29], and an excerpt from the second part of her unfinished 'Widower's Tale' (ff. 11-14).
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Conditions governing access
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions noted on the 'Modern papers - data protection' form issued with their Readers' Tickets.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply. Information regarding ownership of Margiad Evans copyright can be found at http://tyler.hrc.utexas.edu/ (viewed October 2009).
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English.
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Originally kept in blue folder (not retained), labled 'M.S. POEMS Margiad Evans', and numbered 'A-1651'.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23994F.
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Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
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October 2009.
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- English
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Maredudd ap Huw;