Ffeil Box 2 - Box 2

Correspondence (letters, telegrams and postcards) addressed to Vera Bassett which largely relate to her work as an artist. Correspondents include artist Kyffin Williams; Will Evans, artist and lecturer at Swansea College of Art (note relating to Will Evans written on dorse of flyer advertising a talk on Vera Bassett by Donald Treharne, donor of this archive, at the National Library of Wales on 10 October 2012); poet, artist and writer David Jones; poet, broadcaster and literary critic Aneirin Talfan Davies (including letter of condolence, 11 December 1963, on the death of Vera Bassett's father, William John Bassett); actor Richard Burton, with one (undated) letter from Burton's former wife, actor and theatre director Sybil Christopher (née Williams); teacher, radio producer and theatre director Philip Burton; the Medici Society, London; the British Museum; the National Museum of Wales; the National Library of Wales; and representatives of art galleries in Britain, France and the United States. Together with draft letters, 1992 and undated, from Vera Bassett to undisclosed recipients (one draft written on dorse of envelope).
Letters from B. Percy Rees (1 June 1954), Paul Hulton (28 September 1959 and undated), Aneirin Talfan Davies (20 [?July] 1975) and seven undisclosed correspondents (one letter dated 12 October 1958, remainder undated) apparently incomplete.
Some letters photocopied; some are typescript copies of the originals.
English translations attached to some original letters in French.
Undated letters kept in marked envelope.
1945-1995 and undated