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- 1953-2005. (Creation)
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1 box, 1 outsize wallet.
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Scope and content
Printed material, 1953-2005, mostly relating to Under Milk Wood, including magazines and cuttings containing articles about, and reviews of, the play; a programme, [1953], of the Poetry Center, New York, including readings by Dylan Thomas and of 'UMW'; a copy of Mademoiselle (February 1954), containing the first published version of UMW, together with advance proofs; two copies of Plays and players (February and March 1957) with a script of the play; a shortened version of UMW published in two parts in The Observer (February 1954); proofs, 1969, of the book Landmarks, by Derek Stanford (London, 1969), which includes an excerpt from UMW; the beginning, (7 pp.), of a radio script, 'Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters', with an introduction by Dylan Thomas, broadcast in 1955; and a copy of the book Dylan Thomas: the final story. The cat's whiskers, by Beryl Hughes (Hove, 1998), together with two letters, 1994 and 1999, from the author.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Action: appraised. Date: 20120917. Site of action: The National Library of Wales. Action agent: Siân Bowyer. Institution: WlAbNL.
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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 1998 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library.
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English, some Italian.
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Note
A programme, [1953], of the Poetry Center, New York, is inscribed 'Gold 5'.
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Script, 'Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters', is inscribed in an unidentified hand '20'.
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Preferred citation: A5/2.
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- Stanford, Derek (Subject)
- Hughes, Beryl. (Subject)