File E2/1/2. - Four poems sent to Thomas Taig,

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E2/1/2.

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Four poems sent to Thomas Taig,

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  • [1939x1990]. (Creation)

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1 outsize box (4 ff.), 1 folder (6 envelopes)

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Four foolscap pages, [1939], containing typescript copies of the poems 'It is the sinners' dust-tongued bell', 'How shall my animal', 'The tombstone told when she died' and 'A saint about to fall' by Dylan Thomas; his signature is inscribed in ink beneath each poem, and the typed titles, 'Three', 'Nine', 'Ten' and 'Twelve' respectively, have been crossed out and replaced with the heading 'Poem'. These copies may have been produced in preparation for The map of love (London, 1939), and appear to have been sent by Dylan Thomas to Thomas Taig for a proposed 'dramatic presentation' of Anglo-Welsh poetry at a London theatre in September 1939. Also included is a photocopy and photograph, [1953x1990], of the first page of a letter from Dylan Thomas to Thomas Taig, 23 August 1939; together with photocopies of poems in his hand, typescript copies, and printed copies of poems, [1939x1990], intended for the production, by various authors, including Glyn Jones and Keidrych Rhys (one containing amendments by the author).

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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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National Library of Wales

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The original letter from Dylan Thomas to Thomas Taig, enclosing holograph copies of two of his poems and transcripts in his hand of two further poems by George Woodcock and Alan Pryce-Jones, together with three published issues of the magazine Wales (1937-1938), one of which bears Dylan's signature and notes by him, are NLW MS 23990D.

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The letter to Thomas Taig is published in P. Ferris ed., Dylan Thomas: the collected letters (London, 2000), pp. 452-3.

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'Lot 115' is noted on the reverse of a photograph of the first page of the letter to Thomas Taig.

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Preferred citation: E2/1/2.

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vtls006394759

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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

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  • Text: E2/1/2 (Boxes 41 & 46).