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'A Story Courtship' from Black Parade. Typescript of a reading by Jack Jones broadcast 12 June 1964, with manuscript additions by the author.

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Articles and reviews, etc., including a review of Frank Owen's Lloyd George, 'Down at Cardiff Docks, 'Monthly Memory', 'Suburban Sonata' (fragment), 'Jack Jones Talking', 'Double Murder at Fiddler's Elbow', 'Anglo Welsh Writers', 'The Quick and the Dead' (Manuscript of article written in 1928), speech for Foyle's literary luncheon, 'Wales and the Drama'. 'I was a miner', 'The Far North', 'A Playwright's Proposition'.

Articles and talks in typescript including a series of articles (? 'Then and Now') for the 'Empire News', 'A sinner and his saint', 'Land of My Fathers - and of My Children', 'A Merry Merry Christmas Time' for the 'Empire News', 'Time and the Taff River', 'Speaking Personally' (Television talk) and 'Monthly Memory' (broadcast); 'All the Town Talk' - two pages of a proposed novel based on the play 'Edwin the Second'.

Articles of John L. Lewis; chapter of an abandoned novel on Dr Price of Llantrisant; articles on 'My Literary Life', appeared in the Western Mail, 25-8 Nov. 1957, on John Ll. Lewis in Western Mail, 30 July 1918, 'Looking Back Without Anger' in Western Mail, 23-7 Sept. 1957; 'Seventy Years of Theatre Going' (Radio Script); and other articles; 'Brynbara, Glam', a humorous sketch (1960); manuscript draft of article on Andrew Vicari, artist, photographs, reviews and articles on the author; and contracts and letters.

Typescript. With a copy of Historical Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon, vol. 1, 1681-1709, edited and translated by Lucy Norton, which inspired the writing of the item.

BBC Broadcast, 14 Aug. 1939. Typescript.

'Benny Boy'. An epic novel about South Wales. With a note in the autograph of the author to his literary executors: '... The hero of this epic is a composite of friends of mine, who from the coal-face eventually ended up in Parliament ... The "Thomas Rees, Lib - Lab MP." ...'. Revised by the author up to p. 147 in 1960. Two Volumes. Typescript.

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Radio Script. BBC Broadcast, 19 May 1939. Typescript.

'Bidden to the Feast'. A dramatisation by the author of his novel Bidden to the Feast (London: H. Hamilton, 1983). Described on the cover as 'the original with the [BBC] Producer's cuts, etc.' Inside the title is altered to 'An Old Story'. Typescript. Loose inside are notes on performances of the drama by the Little Theatre Players, Swansea, in April 1939 and the interest of London Producers in it, and also a letter dated 13 January, 1956 from John Griffiths, Drama Producer, BBC, to the author about the radio script of the play.