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- 1950-2014, 2023 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
11 boxes (0.315 m3).
May 2023 donation: 1 envelope
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Christopher John Morgan was born 2 May 1944, the child of J. and Eileen C. Morgan, sometime of Roath Park, Cardiff. He was educated at De La Salle school and St Illtyd's college, Cardiff, and University College, Swansea. He taught at various schools, including Ladycross preparatory school, Sussex, 1965-1967 and 1972-1976, and Marlborough House school, Kent, 1976-1984, and (teacher training placements?) at Plasmarl junior school, Swansea, and Neath grammar school, both 1971, before taking early retirement in 1984 due to ill health. After retirement he was a full-time writer of plays, novels, poems and letters. He died in 2014.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Donated by Imelda Morgan of Wem, 22 March 2017.
Additional donation, 5 April 2021.
Additional donation, May 2023.
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Scope and content
Personal and literary papers of Christopher Morgan.
May 2023 donation: Copy of Ian Robinson: Remembrances (Anywhere But Here Publications, 2023), a volume of tributes to university lecturer, literary critic and author Ian Robinson (1937-2020), which includes a piece by Imelda Morgan, sister of Christopher Morgan.
For Christopher Morgan, see also under Tony Curtis Papers at the National Library of Wales (https://atom.prod.llgc.org.uk/index.php/christopher-morgan-2).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Imelda Morgan, his sister, collected and annotated three files, comprising personal and family papers, 1970-2014 (no. 16), poems, articles, letters and notes, 1980-2014 (no. 28), and articles, 1992-2007 (no. 35), presumably selected from the rest of the collection before its receipt by NLW. She has also annotated a number of other items.
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Archivist's note
Compiled by Stephen Benham. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Christopher Morgan Papers.
Archivist's note
May 2023 donation: Description compiled by Bethan Ifan, December 2024, utilising primary source material and online search engines.