Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [c. 1750]-2010 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
0.144 cubic metres (16 small boxes).
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Geoffrey Downing Woolley (born 29 June 1915), was the son of William Downing Woolley of Rhyd Hall, Tredegar, Monmouthshire, colliery manager, and Gladys Parry his wife. Woolley was educated at Brean House, Clifton College and Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, where he read English and law. He worked on the Monmouthshire Beacon newspaper in 1938, and the Western Mail, before joining the Times of London in May 1939. A member of the London Welsh Territorials, he transferred to the Royal Artillery in 1939, serving first with 303 Battery, 99th (London Welsh) H.A.A. Regiment, 1939-1940, transferring to 118 Battery, 75th Anti-Tank Regiment, and serving with them through France, Belgium and Netherlands into Germany, ending the war in Schleswig-Holstein. In May 1945 he transferred to a staff job as PA to the Administrative & Quartering Brigadier in the Schleswig-Holstein District, based in Plön Castle, and was demobilised in 1946. Returning to the Times newspaper, he was their Washington DC correspondent, 1948-1952, and was in Germany in 1953; he edited the Times's letters page, 1953-1983. Woolley and his partner Ian Mylles entered into a civil union in 2007. He died 17 February 2010.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Mr Ian Mylles, Geoffrey Woolley's civil partner, per Mr John Byrne; Alfriston; Purchase; October 2015; 99632236202419.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Papers of the journalist Geoffrey Woolley, including a group of letters, 1906-1915, from the poet Edward Thomas to W. H. Hudson.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged into five series: correspondence (L), diaries (D), writings (W), other personal papers (P), and collected material (C).
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
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.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
- Latin
Language and script notes
English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Title based on contents of fonds.
Alternative identifier(s)
Alma system control number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Woolley, Geoffrey, 1915-2010 -- Archives (Subject)
- Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917 (Subject)
Genre access points
Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
July 2017.
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Script(s)
Sources
The following source was used in the compilation of this description: NLW, Geoffrey Woolley Papers.
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Stephen Benham.