Manuscript draft, 1973-1974, in three volumes, of the autobiographical work by Pamela Hansford Johnson, Important to me (London, 1974), provisionally entitled 'What I need to say', which includes reminiscences about Dylan Thomas. Among the enclosures, 1973-2006, in the first volume is a letter, 1974, by the author. The third volume also contains book reviews by PHJ, together with fragments of her novel, The good listener (London, 1975), a summary of which is inserted at the end of the volume. In addition, the file contains three loose letters, 1958 and 1980-1981, by PHJ; a copy of The first comment treasury (London, 1937), which includes three poems by PHJ, two published under the pseudonym G. N. Oborn, and another by Dylan Thomas; and a copy of the Dylan Thomas memorial number of the journal Adam, no. 238 (1953), containing a memoir by PHJ.
Johnson, Pamela Hansford, 1912-1981.