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- 1964, 1970 (Creation)
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NLW MS 21520B (i): 37 ff.
NLW MS 21520B (ii): 64 ff.
NLW MS 21520B (iii): i, 117 ff.
NLW MS 21520B (iv): 121 ff.
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Sketchbooks of Brenda Chamberlain comprising: (i) leaves from three sketch pads containing Greek material including drafts of poems, sketches and 'automatic drawings', [1964] (MS 39); (ii) a sketchbook, [Summer 1964], containing some Greek material in prose and ballpoint sketches, notably of a dancer (Rovertos Saragas) dancing, with a note on these particular sketches on ff. 41-45 (MS 40); (iii) three notebooks containing 'automatic drawings' in ballpoint, drawn while listening to the music of Halim El-Dabh, played by the composer, in Ydra and Athens, October 1964 (MS 41a-c); and (iv) Xerox copies of the three notebooks in MS 41 with a few explanatory notes by Chamberlain, together with two drafts of a letter, dated 7 February 1970, from Chamberlain to Isabel Hitchman of the Welsh Arts Council (cf. NLW MS 21524E) explaining the drawings (MS 42).
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Previously Brenda Chamberlain MSS 39-42.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 21520B (i)-(iv).