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Galley proofs, 1953, of 'Poem on his Birthday', possibly for the Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards anthology (Philadelphia, 1953).

Worksheets, [1949x1951], (4 ff.), produced by Dylan Thomas whilst composing 'Poem on his Birthday', written to mark the poet's thirty-fifth birthday, and first published in World Review (October, 1951); an extended version subsequently appeared in Atlantic (March, 1952). The four separate sheets contain ink drafts of stanzas 9, 10 and 11, and variant workings of two lines in stanza 3; one leaf (f. 3r) includes two short lists of names, some of which appear to be creditors. In addition the file contains an extensive word list for the poem, (f. 5r), written in ink and consisting of numerous lists of rhyming and assonant words; "Under a hurled" inscribed on verso.

Small Swansea Intermediate School notebook, [1928x1932], inscribed 'D. J. Jones. Homework Notebook' on the front cover, mainly containing school notes by Daniel Jones, with additional notes by Dylan Thomas (ff. 27r, 27v, 28r, 30v, inside back cover), and an unpublished poem written in pencil in the latter's hand entitled 'The Nigger-Boy's Plaint' (f. 30r).

Photocopies, [1990x2011], of four autograph letters, dated 1946-1953, from Dylan Thomas to various recipients.

Photocopies, produced 1967-1968, of autograph letters, dated 1933-1937 (predominantly 1933-1934), from Dylan Thomas to Pamela Hansford Johnson; most are included in Constantine Fitzgibbon's, Selected letters of Dylan Thomas (London, 1967).

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'.

Correspondence, 1975-2000, of Paul Ferris, including letters sent by him to Daniel Jones, Gwen Watkins and Jeff Towns, relating to his biographies of Dylan and Caitlin Thomas, and The collected letters of Dylan Thomas (London, 1985). Also enclosed are copies of three letters from Dylan Thomas to Caitlin, [1936], John L[?], 1942, and John [?Arlott], [c. 1945], and a letter-poem about New Quay, dated 1945.

Early pencil draft, [1939], by Dylan Thomas of 'The House Maid's Poem', later published as 'Paper and sticks' in Seven (Autumn, 1939), and Deaths and entrances (London, 1946). The poem is written on the reverse of a fragment of a letter, dated 13 July [19]39, to Dylan Thomas by an unidentified author.

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.

Pencil draft, [1945], in Dylan Thomas's hand, of part of the script for the wartime propaganda film, 'Our country'; inverted text on six of the preliminary pages of Daniel Jones's copy of Samuel Johnson, The lives of the English poets, vol. III (London, 1896). Also included is a typewritten transcript, [2000x2009], (6 pp.), of these notes.

Fourteen autograph letters, [1926]-1995, from Dylan Thomas to various family members, friends and literary acquaintances.

Seven autograph letters, one signed typescript letter, and a postcard, [1935]-1947, from Dylan Thomas to Charles Fisher, all of which are published in Paul Ferris ed., Dylan Thomas, the collected letters (London, 2000).

Correspondence, 1954-1955, relating to the proposed publication of manuscript poems by Dylan Thomas in the notebooks held by the Lockwood Memorial Library, University of Buffalo, New York.

Script, [1953], (71 pp.), of 'Under Milk Wood', with annotations in the hands of both Dylan Thomas and Daniel Jones. The wallet, in which the script was enclosed, is labelled "1 of New York scripts".

Folded page (4 pp.) from an exercise book containing an early untitled and unpublished pencil draft, [1925x1929], by Dylan Thomas of a short story which opens "Monseiur [sic] Didot's menagerie reached the little town of Artois early in the summer morning some years ago".

Photocopies and typescript copies, produced [1955x2000], of seven letters from Dylan Thomas, dated [?1935]-1953, found loose amongst papers acquired in this group. Most were published in Paul Ferris ed., The collected letters of Dylan Thomas (London, 1985). Among the recipients are Marguerite Caetani (2), Pamela Hansford Johnson, J. Oliver Stephens, and Vernon Watkins (signed by VW).

Holograph letter, dated 21 April [1944], by Dylan Thomas to Mechthield [sic] [Nawaisky], written in black ink (recto side only) and sent from Old Bosham, regarding Bill Brandt's photographs of Caitlin and himself; he also refers to the nightly bombing of Sussex. Inscribed 'Dylan Thomas during war in his early 30 tee's' in pencil in an unidentified hand on reverse. Also included is a page from an unknown publication, [1953x1954], containing an article about Dylan Thomas, and the black and white photograph by Bill Brandt, 'Dylan Thomas and His Wife, Caitlin, in Their Room, Manresa Road, Chelsea' (1944).

Papers, 2003, relating to the television documentary 'Dylan Thomas - man or myth' (provisionally titled 'The lives & legends of Dylan Thomas'), produced and directed by Matthew Springford.

Autograph drafts and notes, [1925x2009], of prose works by Dylan Thomas, including pencil drafts of an early untitled and unpublished short story, [1925x1929], and part of the script of the film 'Our country', [1945].