File E1/2/2. - Elegy,

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E1/2/2.

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Elegy,

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  • [1953]. (Creation)

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1 wallet (1 f.).

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Formerly part of the estate of Wynford Vaughan Thomas.

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One page of lined paper containing early untitled ink drafts, [1953], including words, phrases, and a list of possible verse forms, (recto side only), written by Dylan Thomas whilst composing the unfinished poem 'Elegy' to his father, D. J. Thomas. The work was first published in Encounter, 6/2 (February, 1956).

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Action: housed. Date: 20131029. Site of action: The National Library of Wales. 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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An additional worksheet is held at NLW (NLW MS 23992E), and a further two worksheets at the Morgan Library & Museum (formerly The Pierpont Morgan Library), New York. A copy of the poem, as completed by Vernon Watkins, is NLW MS 22552E.

Undated manuscript drafts and workings, (4 pp.), and a manuscript fragment with autograph revisions, c. 1953, (2 pp.), together with undated manuscript drafts, (33 pp.), are in the Dylan Thomas Collection at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin (boxes 3.1 and 3.2 respectively); information supplied by HRC, March 2013.

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Preferred citation: E1/2/2.

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vtls006386290

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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

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  • Text: E1/2/2 (Box 41).