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Additional papers, 1935-2007, relating to Dylan Thomas known as the Dylan Thomas Family Letters, including autograph letters from Dylan to Charles Fisher, [1935]-1947; the letters and papers of his wife, Caitlin, [1940]-1998, among them a substantial group of unpublished autograph letters, 1947-1984, their children, Llewelyn, Aeronwy and Colm, [1954]-2007, Dylan's parents, D. J. and Florence Thomas, 1935-1957, and Caitlin's mother, Yvonne Macnamara, [1957]; and correspondence, 1954-1955, relating to the proposed publication of the notebook poems.

Photocopies and typescript copies, produced [1955x2000], of letters from Dylan Thomas, dated 1931-1953, to various recipients. Most of the original letters appear to be held at the State University of New York Buffalo.

Papers, [1940]-1998, of, and relating to, Caitlin Thomas, comprising thirty-four unpublished autograph letters and cards, 1947-1984, from her; manuscript notes in her hand, [1940x1953]; and press cuttings, 1953-1998, of articles and obituaries about her.

A copy of the American poetry magazine, Three hands, number two (1952), possibly given to Dylan Thomas, containing notes in ink and pencil in Caitlin's hand on the title page and the final blank page, and signed by her. Also included is an undated shopping list, [1940x1953], written on the reverse of a brief note to Dylan Thomas from Pete Gully.

Printed material, 1953-1998, comprising mostly press cuttings of articles and obituaries about Caitlin Thomas, together with a postcard of Augustus John's portrait of her, and a copy of her funeral brochure, 1994.

An autograph letter, [1978], from Llewelyn Thomas to Daniel and Irene Jones, together with two postcards, 1998, from him addressed to Jeff Towns. Also included are press cuttings relating to Llewelyn Thomas, [1962]-2001; a copy of the Harvard University magazine, Gadfly, containing an article by him, 'Religion in Harvard', with related papers, 1959; and a xerox copy of his article published in the Australian newspaper, The Nation (October, 1971), 'On the impossibility of remembering father'.

Autograph letters by Dylan Thomas's parents, comprising one letter, 1935, from D. J. Thomas to Daniel Jones, and six letters (one photocopy), [1953]-1957, from Florence Thomas to various recipients.

Typescript copy, [1935x1955], (5 pp.), containing a few corrections in red biro in an unidentified hand, together with an uncorrected carbon copy, of a story entitled, 'The vest'. This work was first recorded in the 'Red notebook', 1934, and published in Yellowjacket magazine in 1939.

A copy of Contemporary poetry and prose, no. 9, (Spring, 1937), including the story 'The holy six' by Dylan Thomas, pp. 18-26; the front cover inscribed by him in ink, "This contains The Holy Six", and the text of the story also including amendments in his hand.

Three loose printed pages from Life and letters today, vol. XVI, no. 7, (Spring, 1937), pp. 65-70, containing the story 'A prospect of the sea' by Dylan Thomas. Eight words in the first paragraph have been marked, in an unidentified hand, for omission.

Typescript copy, [1938x1955], (3 pp.), of the short story by Dylan Thomas, 'In the direction of the beginning'.

Manuscript and typescript copies, [c. 1928x1953], of collaborative work produced by Daniel Jones and Dylan Thomas, including a literary journal entitled 'The Era', [c. 1928], and two scripts, [1939x1953].

Script of an untitled short play, [1939x1953], by Dylan Thomas and Daniel Jones, composed on two sides of a single foolscap page. The play is mostly a dialogue between a man and a woman, beginning "By the way, will you marry me?", and written in the hands of both authors, but mostly that of Daniel Jones.

Corrected typescript, [1939x1953], of a short play by Dylan Thomas and Daniel Jones, entitled 'Leak before you leap'.

Various papers belonging to Dylan Thomas, comprising a school exercise book, [1929x1930]; ink and pencil drawings and doodles by him, [1934x1953]; a character game, [1936x1945]; and contracts and papers, 1949 and 1960, relating to his contribution to the album 'Pleasure Dome'.

Three early autograph poems, [1928x1932], by Dylan Thomas, all of which appear to be unpublished. One volume also includes additional notes in his hand.

Ruled exercise book, [1928x1932], with the inital 'D' inscribed on the front cover, containing three stanzas by Dylan Thomas (ff. 1r, 2r, 3r), written neatly in ink in the poet's hand. The poem, consisting of twenty-two lines and beginning 'Oblique epern of paper's cellar-fear', appears to have been previously unpublished and unrecorded.

Autograph pencil draft, [1930x1932], of an untitled limerick by Dylan Thomas about his friend Daniel Jones. Two lines at the beginning of the verse have been crossed out by the author; a selection of rhyming words are noted at the top of the page. 'Bridg[e?]' and 'Brigid' are inscribed in ink on the reverse.

Papers, [1939x2010], mostly drafts and worksheets, of later poems by Dylan Thomas, namely 'A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London', 'Elegy', 'In Country Heaven', 'Paper and sticks', 'Poem on his Birthday', and 'There was a saviour'. 'Letter to Loren', a letter written in verse, is also included in this group.

Early pencil draft, dated Nov[ember] [19]44, by Dylan Thomas of the poem 'A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London', written on the back endpaper and paste-down of a copy of the anthology New Road 1944, ed. A. Comfort and J. Bayliss (London, 1944), containing two of his poems, 'Among those killed in the Dawn Raid was a Man aged One Hundred' and 'The Marriage of a Virgin'. The poem was first published in New Republic, vol. 112, no. 20, (May, 1945), and subsequently in Deaths and entrances (London, 1946). The letters 'Dy' are inscribed beneath the draft, together with a small doodle of a creature. Also included are two typescript copies, [1990x2010], (3 ff.), of 'A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London', being transcripts of the pencil draft.