Ffeil / File AB2/1/12 - Footsore on the Frontier

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AB2/1/12

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Footsore on the Frontier

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  • [1983x2001] (Creation)

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1 small box

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Material relating to the writing of Nigel Jenkins' Footsore on the Frontier: Selected Essays and Articles, published by Gomer Press in 2001. Items include printed agreement between Nigel Jenkins and Gomer Press; reviews; material relating to sections on artist Mary Lloyd Jones (draft, fair-copy and printed articles; interview and other notes; correspondence; printed invitations to private views; exhibition brochure and price list; material from printed sources) and poet Cyril Gwynn (poetry; correspondence; notes; draft articles; death notices) and on Garn Goch hill fort and Paviland Cave (correspondence; draft article; notes); piece entitled Footsore on the Frontier taken from printed source, with notes on dorse; draft short story entitled Hymns and Bloody Arias, with section of printed version and notes; piece entitled And the Dregs are Mine ... (draft pieces; notes); and Prison Diary of WX 0674, a draft account of Nigel Jenkins' imprisonment at HM Prison Swansea in 1988.

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Accruals

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Individual items within the volume represented within separate folders.
Correspondence arranged chronologically where possible.

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  • English
  • Welsh

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Some folios marked by rusted paperclips, since replaced.
Some foxing.

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For Nigel Jenkins' prison diary, which forms part of this volume, see also Miscellaneous HM Prison Swansea material and Letters to Nigel Jenkins at HM Prison Swansea.

For John Tripp, whose funeral is described in one of the items in this volume, see also:
Published prose of Nigel Jenkins: John Tripp (Writers of Wales) and drafts of same
Reviews of Nigel Jenkins for Jenkins' review of John Tripp: Selected Poems (ed. John Ormond)
Lecture programmes of Nigel Jenkins: The Poet John Tripp
Lecture programmes of Nigel Jenkins: Poetry of Commitment for lecture on John Tripp and Harri Webb
Media broadcasts of Nigel Jenkins: John Tripp: Proposal for a film
Prose anthologies of other writers for John Tripp's collection of short stories Last Day in England and his volume of unpublished stories entitled The Thinskin Awards
Letters to Nigel Jenkins from Steve Griffiths for Griffiths' Elegy for John Tripp
Letters to Nigel Jenkins from Peter Gruffydd for poetic tribute to John Tripp

For Cyril Gwynn, see also Talks of Nigel Jenkins: Alun Richards: Penguin Book of Welsh Short Stories.
For Mary Lloyd Jones, see also Media broadcasts of Nigel Jenkins.

Audio-cassettes featuring or relating to John Tripp are kept separately at CM 15710 - 15741.

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  • Text: AB2/1/12 (Box 14)