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Title
Date(s)
- 1935-1945 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
127 ff.
Placed in melinex sleeves within ringed box at NLW.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Mrs Ann Griffith, niece of B. G. Rees; Chesterfield; Donation (with NLW ex 2866 and NLW Photo Album 5302D); April 2014; 006741842.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Papers, 1935-1945, of the Rev. B. George Rees, Curate of Llangynwyd, Maesteg (1936-38), and Laleston (1938-44), Rector of Llansannor (1944-48), and a WEA lecturer on literature at the Maesteg Unemployed Centre and elsewhere. The papers include letters, 1939-1940, from a number of authors and poets, responding to requests by Rees for their thoughts on lecture subjects such as 'Life and Literature'.
The respondents include W. H. Auden, [1939] (ff. 2-3), Winston Churchill, 17 January 1939 (f. 8), C. Day Lewis, [?1939]-1940 (ff. 10-12), Aldous Huxley, 27 March 1940 (f. 16), Glyn Jones, April 1939-February 1940 (ff. 19-27), Herbert E. Palmer, February-March 1940 (ff. 35-44), John Cowper Powys, February-March 1940 (ff. 45-47), J. B. Priestley, 10 January 1939 (f. 48), Dylan Thomas, September 1939-February 1940 (ff. 56-60), and Emlyn Williams, 8 February 1940 (f. 63); a few respondents, such as Glyn Jones (f. 25) and Dylan Thomas (ff. 59-60), supplied Rees with brief essays. Also included are notes, newspaper cuttings and other papers relating to Rees's lectures (ff. 66-91); and papers, 1935-1945, relating to his Church career, including letters and telegrams concerning his Institution at Llansannor, August-September 1944 (ff. 92-100), sermon notes (ff. 102-109), and parish magazines and pages from annual reports relating to Laleston, 1935-1944 (ff. 110-120).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged at NLW as follows: literary correspondence; notes; cuttings; personal papers.
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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.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
English.
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Existence and location of copies
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Notes area
Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 24059E.
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Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Church in Wales. Diocese of Llandaff -- Clergy. (Subject)
- Maesteg Unemployed Centre. (Subject)
- Workers' Educational Association. South Wales. (Subject)
- Rees, B. G. (Benjamin George), 1910-1948 -- Archives. (Subject)
- Rees, B. G. (Benjamin George), 1910-1948 -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965. (Subject)
- Day Lewis, C. (Cecil), 1904-1972. (Subject)
- Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 (Subject)
- Jones, Glyn, 1905-1995. (Subject)
- Palmer, Herbert E. (Herbert Edward), 1880- (Subject)
- Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963. (Subject)
- Priestley, J. B. (John Boynton), 1894-1984. (Subject)
- Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 (Subject)
- Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953 (Subject)
- Williams, Emlyn, 1905-1987 (Subject)
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Description identifier
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Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
October 2014.
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Rhys Morgan Jones