- LE1/23
- File
- 1955
The file comprises numerous manuscript drafts and an incomplete typescript text (corrected by David Jones) of 'The Viae'.
The file comprises numerous manuscript drafts and an incomplete typescript text (corrected by David Jones) of 'The Viae'.
The file comprises a complete manuscript of 'The Utile', which is a note to 'Art and Sacrament'.
The series comprises five files of manuscript and typescript drafts of the poem, galley proofs of Poetry, 1961, and material relating to a BBC radio broadcast of 'work in progress' in 1956.
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The series comprises six files of manuscript drafts of the poem and its introduction, proofs, and a copy of The Listener, 1958.
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The file comprises a script of a commissioned Third Programme talk by Saunders Lewis entitled 'The Tradition of Taliesin', presented to David Jones by the author, 5 July 1965.
Lewis, Saunders, 1893-1985
The file comprises copies of The Tablet, 1948-1962, (and one of The Listener, 1956) found amongst David Jones's papers.
The series comprises three manuscript drafts of the poem.
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'The sailor in the middle ages'
The file comprises a typescript article by E. G. R. Taylor entitled 'The Sailor in the Middle Ages'.
Taylor, E. G. R. (Eva Germaine Rimington), 1879-
The group contains manuscript and typescript drafts of most of the poems which appear in the volume with also some material which was unused.
The Roman Quarry and other sequences was edited by Harman Grisewood and René Hague, and first published by Agenda Editions in 1981. (See the foreword and introduction for information on how the material was selected from the archive for publication in this volume.) The volume is made up of some unpublished poetry, but also poetry which may have been part of The Anathemata (1952), The Sleeping Lord (1974), The Kensington Mass (1975) or The Narrows (1981). Most of the papers are from Group B.
Grisewood, Harman, 1906-1997
The series comprises a manuscript draft and a typescript draft of 'The Roman Quarry'.
'The painted inscriptions of David Jones'
The file comprises a typescript article entitled 'The Painted Inscriptions of David Jones'. This article, by Nicolette Gray, was published under the title 'David Jones and the Art of Lettering' in the David Jones Special Issue of Agenda, vol. 5, nos 1-3 (Spring-Summer 1967), pp. 146-52.
Gray, Nicolete, 1911-
The series comprises manuscript drafts of 'The Old Quarry', Part 1, and typescript drafts of Parts 1 and 2.
Section III of The Roman Quarry consists of 'The Old Quarry Part One', 'The Agent', and 'The Old Quarry Part Two'. 'The Old Quarry' follows on from 'The Grail Mass'. The second half of the Old Quarry is mentioned in letters in 1940 and 1962 to Harman Grisewood.
The series comprises a complete manuscript draft of 'The Narrows'.
'The Narrows' was first published in the Anglo-Welsh Review, vol. 22, no. 50 (Autumn 1973) pp. 8-12, and in Agenda, Autumn-Winter 1973-1974. It was later published as a pamphlet with an introduction by Roland Mathias by the Interim Press in 1981.
The file comprises an incomplete typescript text (paginated 10-19 and 22, 26) of 'the Myth of Arthur' (see Epoch and Artist, pp. 212-59), corrected and altered by David Jones. There are also two manuscript drafts, apparently of an insertion in the text of the missing p. 20 of this typescript.
The file comprises an incomplete typescript draft of the last section of the essay 'The Myth of Arthur' corrected by David Jones. The typescript seems to be corrected for Epoch and Artist from the text written in 1940-1941 for For Hillaire Belloc which was published by Sheed and Ward in 1942.
The file comprises a typescript essay by H. W. J. Edwards entitled 'The Mystery of Lloegr'.
Edwards, H. W. J. (Henry William John), 1910-1991
The file comprises the text of 'The Tribune's Visitation' published by The Listener following a broadcast of the poem, May 22 1958, with some words in David Jones's hand in the second page.
The series comprises six files of manuscript and typescript drafts of various versions of the 'Mass' poem, with related correspondence.
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The series comprises six files of manuscript drafts of the poem, scripts of a BBC recording in 1958, and drafts of an introduction to a recording for disc c. 1963.
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The file comprises two manuscript drafts of a review published in the Dublin Review, October 1952, of 'The Heritage of Early Britian', with a typescript draft and proofs corrected by David Jones.