Papers, [1920s]-1988, of Vernon Watkins, comprising drafts of poems published in collections and elsewhere, 1934-1967, unpublished poems, [1920s]-1967, and verse translations from German, French, Greek, Italian, Spanish and Hungarian, [1920s]-1967; drafts and translations of verse dramas, [1920s]-[1940x1967]; prose articles and essays, [1935]-1967; radio scripts, 1948-1967; talks and lecture notes, 1947-1967; correspondence, 1937-1988, including letters to Gwen Watkins following her husband's death; diaries, 1931, 1966; bibliographical lists of his poetry, [?1941]-1967; and some literary material relating to posthumous publications, 1976-1978.

Notebook of Berta Ruck, October 1929-May 1930, containing journal entries recording her social life, family life and work in Windsor and London, as well as an account of her excursion to Zurich, Vienna and Budapest, April 1930 (ff. 41-47), a detailed description of the plane journey from Croydon, via Le Bourget, to Zurich, 17 April (ff. 36 verso-40 verso), and a typescript draft of a satirical play entitled 'Guests on Sunday' (ff. 12, 13 verso-18 verso). Some forty letters, cards and telegrams from family, friends and fans, photographs, cuttings, programmes and other ephemera have been pasted in.
The correspondents include Sheila Kaye-Smith, 12 January [1930] (f. 19 verso), Evelyn Waugh, [?1930] (f. 24), A. M. Ludovici, 27 March 1930 (f. 29 verso), and Alec Waugh, April 1930 (ff. 50, 52 verso). The volume contains sketches and drawings (f. 13, inside back cover) and poetry (inside front cover, f. 1) by Ruck. There are two lines of mirror writing on f. 29.

Autograph and typescript essays and lecture notes, [c. 1935]-[1966], on Wilfred Owen and his poetry.

Letters, 1926-1968, to John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter from various correspondents, including Gerald Brenan (16, including one poem), 1957-1968; Maurice Browne (20), 1930-1954; James Hanley (15), [c. 1955]-1967; Claude Houghton (5), 1955-1956; Edgar Lee Masters (9), 1928-1945; Henry Miller (7), 1957-1962; and Ralph Shirley (18), 1940-1946; together with a few miscellaneous letters, including an undated draft letter from John Cowper Powys concerning literary censorship in America.

Papers of, and relating to, Dorothy Bonarjee, [c. 1896]-2022, including poetry, letters, photographs, family documents and printed material.

A holograph poem, [?1950s], entitled 'Birds in Winter' by B[erta] R[uck], written in red ink and accompanied by a pen, ink and watercolour drawing by Ruck, depicting an airman holding a bird.
The poem is written on the back of a sheet of Ruck's notepaper, headed 'From Berta Ruck Aberdovey Merioneth North Wales'; Ruck lived in Aberdyfi from 1939 until her death.

Papers, [1903]-[1922], of Jack Haines relating to his friend, the writer and poet Edward Thomas, comprising manuscript and typescript poems and drafts of poems, 1914-[1916]; a book review, [1903]; and letters from Edward Thomas, 1915, and Helen Thomas, [1922].

A copy of the poetry anthology pamphlet Call Wind to Witness: Poems by John Bayliss, Charles Hamblett, Alun Lewis and Emanuel Litvinoff (London: Russell Clarke at the sign of the Capriole, [1942]), edited by Hamblett, with a prefatory note by Derek Sandford.
The volume contains the Alun Lewis poems 'Love Letter' and 'Infantry' (pp. 10-11), which likely constitutes his first appearance in book form.

Poetry by Alun Lewis (MSS 1-6) and poetry in his memory (MS 7). MSS 1-6 were formed from loose leaves and filed in NLW. Where a poem is represented by more than one draft the aim has been to place them in chronological order. Title variants are noted in square brackets.

Five printed volumes and a proof copy, 1935-1956, of poetry by Clifford Dyment, all containing annotations, emendations or inscriptions in his hand; together with a small bundle of miscellaneous personal items, 1929-1978.

A holograph copy, [1971], of David Jones's poem 'A, a, a, Domine Deus', signed 'D.J. c. 1938 & 1966'. The manuscript contains a few minor variants to the final published text, most notably the substitution of 'signum' for 'symbol' (line 5). A substantial marginal note relates to 'certain motifs & the title'.
The poem is written in black ink with the title and certain words in red ink. An early version of the poem was published in the essay 'Art and Sacrament', in Catholic Approaches, ed. by Elizabeth Pakenham (London, 1955), pp. 143-182 (p. 181), and collected in David Jones, Epoch and Artist (London, 1959), pp. 143-179 (p. 179). In its final form it first appeared in Agenda, 5.1-3 (Spring-Summer 1967), 5, and was collected in David Jones, The Sleeping Lord and Other Fragments (London, 1974), p. 9.

Notebook of John Cowper Powys, [c. 1895]-1901, containing heavily revised drafts of over twenty poems, including an early version of 'To A. C. Swinburne' (ff. 21 verso-22), published in Odes and Other Poems (London, 1896), and of 'Written on Monday Evening March 29' (f. 14 recto-verso; cf. NLW MS 21930E, f. 162), published in Horned Poppies ... (North Walsham, 1986); the opening of a verse play (ff. 25-28); and two prose fragments (ff. 9-13 and 46-47 verso (reverse text)), apparently of Powys's unpublished first novel (see NLW MSS 23672-23676), referred to as 'Work without a name' in Powys's Autobiography (1934), pp. 314-315. Leaves not originally part of the notebook but found loose inside have been filed at the beginning of the volume (ff. 1-8).

Drafts of poems by John Cowper Powys, published between 1896 and 1926; a heavily worked draft of an incomplete poem in two cantos, published in A Review of English Literature (January 1963); and drafts of over fifty poems, forty-one of which were published posthumously in Horned Poppies ... (1986), the remainder, including a blank verse autobiography, as yet unpublished.

Books and manuscripts collected by René Hague relating to David Jones, including copies of Jones's published works, with annotations and corrections by Hague, and including loose items such as typescript texts by Jones, letters and maps, 1936-[c. 1981]; notebooks containing notes on David Jones, manuscript drafts by him, and letters to René Hague, 1949-1978; and exhibition catalogues, 1964-1979.

Four notebooks and a series of disbound notebooks and loose leaves, [c. 1900]-[c. 1902], containing parts of a projected first novel by John Cowper Powys comprising substantial drafts of a romance set on the Sussex Downs; together with numerous, shorter fragments of narrative, mainly passages of prolix theological and philosophical discussion, and Rabelaisian fantasy, involving characters based on the author's friends. Also included are heavily worked drafts of unpublished poems (NLW MS 23672E, ff. 57-60 and ff. 135-137 verso, 138 verso, 139 verso-140, inverted text; NLW MS 23673E, ff. 146 recto-verso, 147 verso, 154 recto-verso, 155 verso, 156 verso-60 verso, 161 verso-162, inverted text; NLW MS 23676E, ii, ff. 250 verso-251, 253 verso-255, 259 verso, 260 verso, 261-262 verso, 263 verso, 264 verso-265 verso, 266 verso, 267 verso-268 verso, 269 verso, 270 verso, inverted text); and notes on Shakespeare's The Tempest, Macbeth, Richard III and The Taming of the Shrew (NLW MS 23673E, ff. 148-153 verso, inverted text), possibly for use in Powys's lecturing work.

Corrected authors' typescript, [mid-1960s], for Clifford and Marcella Dyment's collection of amusing animal poetry 'Fur, Feather, and Fin' (NLW MS 24085iD), together with a copy of the limited edition (No. 11 of 500) of the book, Fur, Feather, and Fin (London: Carrefour Press, 1968), signed by Clifford Dyment and illustrator Hafis Bertschinger (NLW MS 24085iiD).
The typescript contains a few pencil emendations by Clifford Dyment, mostly unused in the published version (NLW MS 24085iD, ff. 5 verso, 14, 15, 27, 32, 33, 42), including four additional lines to 'The Camel' (f. 5 verso). The typescript also includes an 'Explanation and Extenuation' by the authors, also omitted from the published version (f. v).

Manuscript and typescript drafts, [1951]-[1969], of poetry by Clifford Dyment, consisting mostly of drafts of twenty-six of the twenty-eight dream poems first published in section VI of his Collected Poems (London, 1970), pp. 89-106 (ff. 2 verso, 5 verso, 6 verso, 9-94, 96-104, 106-109).
Also included are a few additional poems, most apparently unpublished; these comprise 'The Found Postman' (f. 46 verso), 'The Trap' (f. 95), 'The Thames' (ff. 105, 108), 'The Crow' (f. 108; published in Fur, Feather and Fin (London, [1968]), p. 71), 'Crucifixus' (f. 109; published in Poems 1935-1948 (London, 1949), p. 22), 'The Worm is near its Victory' (f. 109), 'Strict Life Takes Toll' (f. 109), 'The Shadow in the Corn' (f. 110), 'Harvest' (f. 111), 'The Dumble' (f. 112), 'Landscape' (f. 113) and 'The Off-beat' / 'The Tramp' (ff. 114-115). The presence of a draft foreword (ff. 4-7), notes (f. 8) and title page, 'Poems in the Night' (f. 20 verso), gives an indication of Dyment's intention to publish the dream poems as a separate volume. Most of the poems are listed, in Dyment's hand, on ff. 1-2. Some of the poems are written on the backs of old letters and circulars, as well as fragments of a typescript for his autobiography The Railway Game (London, 1962) (ff. 33-35, 45, 55, 73, 75-76, 81, 92, 96, 99-101, 104, 114-115, versos only) and the beginning of his introduction to the first edition of Robert Greacen's autobiography, Even Without Irene (Dublin, 1969) (f. 4 verso, 12 verso).

A collection of eighteen holograph poems by Clifford H. Dyment, dated February 1930 (see ff. 1, 7), when Dyment was aged sixteen.
The collection consists of fair copies of seventeen poems, written in ink (ff. 2-11 verso), with an eighteenth added in pencil (f. 12); all are apparently unpublished.

Letters from John Cowper Powys to his brother, Llewelyn Powys, [1923], his companion, Phyllis Playter, [?1924], 'George', 1958, and a 'Mr London', [?1940s], the latter dictated by Powys to Phyllis Playter; together with miscellaneous literary papers, which comprise drafts of poems, [c. 1900]-1953, including an early version of 'Samphire' (published in Horned Poppies ... (1986)) and of several unpublished anniversary poems addressed to Phyllis Playter; a draft, [?1900]-1902, of an unpublished preface to poems by Alfred de Kantzow; an ink and pencil sketch of the map which forms the end-papers of Powys's novel Ducdame (1925); and drafts of the opening of a philosophical work, 1938, and of a speech in Welsh, [1935x1954], the latter composed by Powys while he was living in Corwen.

Drafts of eight poems by John Cowper Powys written for Phyllis Playter, most of them bearing the dedication 'to the T.T.', together with a pencilled caricature (f. 5) inscribed 'To my Valentine Feb 14 1949'.