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Typescript of Rhys Davies's autobiography, 'Print of hare's foot', with slight revision partly in the author's hand and partly in another, all deriving from the revision first made in NLW MS 21536C. Includes a final chapter 'Country' that was omitted in the book. Paper; ii + 286 leaves; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 8.

Advance proof copy in wrappers of Rhys Davies's autobiography, 'Print of hare's foot', with author's pencil corrections. Paper; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 11.

Pencil draft of the autobiographical volume Print of a Hare's Foot. Rewritten versions of chapters 1, 2 and 4 (ff. 380-404). Paper; 404 leaves; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 5.

Autograph second pencil draft of Nobody answered the bell. Several series of foliation numbers by the author provide evidence of expansion and rewriting within this draft. 228 Leaves; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 13.

Typescript with some pencil revision of Rhys Davies's novel, 'Nobody answered the bell', together with preliminary matter for the book. Paper; viii + 193 ff.; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 17.

Autograph fourth pencil draft of Nobody answered the bell, foliated by the author 1-226, many sections are now wanting; some of them to be found incorporated in NLW MS 21543C, ff.154-157 (numbered by author 22-25), seem to represent a draft of the novel coming between NLW MSS 21541 and 21542C. Paper; 157 ff.; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 15.

Carbon copy of NLW MS 21544C with the same pencil revision. Paper; ii + 193 ff.; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 18.

Autograph first pencil draft of the novel Nobody answered the bell (pub. 1971), described by the author in a note on fo. 1 as 'a very rough outline of parts of this novel, used as a preliminary sketch or blueprint'. Paper; i + 97 ff. (autnor's foliation 1-98, fo. 56 wanting) ; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 12.

Autograph third pencil draft of Nobody answered the bell. Paper; 191 ff. (ff. 27-28 of the author's foliation are wanting); unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 14.

Autograph fifth pencil draft of Nobody answered the bell. A note by the author on f. 1 refers to this as the 'final' draft 'for typist'. Paper; 263 ff.; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 16.

Typescript of the novel Girl waiting in the shade with autograph pencil revision. Paper; ii + 270 leaves; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 2.

Literary and personal papers of Rhys Davies, 1901-1979, comprising manuscript drafts and typescript copies, mainly of short stories and plays, together with drafts and a manuscript text of his last novel Ram with Red Horns (Bridgend, 1996), set in south Wales. Also included are letters to and from Rhys Davies, mostly 1960s and 1970s, and papers relating to his friend, the novelist Anna Kavan, including a short draft of a work of fiction in her hand. The manuscripts include autograph and typescript drafts of the short story 'The Walled City', [?1950s], the novels Tomorrow to Fresh Woods (1941), Girl Waiting in the Shade (1960), [?late 1950s], and Nobody Answered the Bell (1971), stories collected in The Chosen One (1967), the autobiographical volume Print of a Hare's Foot (1969), and the articles 'The God on the Oven Door', 1963, and 'Anna Kavan', 1971.

Additional letters and papers relating to Rhys Davies were acquired July 2009. This group remains uncatalogued.

Some eighty-nine letters and cards, 1940-1956, from Rhys Davies to his friend Louis F. Quinain, containing mainly personal news and comments on the progress of his work; also included are a copy of The Welsh Nationalist, July 1941, with a few jottings by the writer, and brief notes for a story in the hand of his brother, A. Lewis Davies.

Correspondence, 1930-1978, of Rhys Davies, comprising some twenty-five letters to various correspondents (ff. 1-31), including his brother Arthur Lewis Davies, 1933-1955 (ff. 1-12), his sisters Gertie E. Davies and Gladys Davies, 1960-1978 (ff. 13-18), and his friend and patron Louise Taylor, 1975-1977 (ff. 20-30); together with some twenty-seven letters to Davies from various correspondents (ff. 32-78), including G. F. Adam, 1947 (f. 32), John Fernald, 1954 (ff. 34-37), John Gawsworth, 1946 (f. 38), James Hanley, [1950s] (f. 40), Anna Kavan, [early 1960s] (f. 44), Keidrych Rhys, 1946 (f. 47), Flora Robson, 1954 (ff. 50-53, copies), Valerie Taylor, 1955 (ff. 56-70), and his sister Peggie Williams, 1945 (ff. 74-75).
Also included is a group of correspondence relating to the dramatisation of Rhys Davies's short story 'Gents Only', 1948 (ff. 79-82), and to the estates of Alice B. Toklas and Louise Taylor, 1978 (ff. 83-86).

The series comprises letters and a few postcards, [c. 1946]-[1972], to Louise and Redvers ('Red') Taylor, many written by Rhys Davies on holiday relating to cultural visits, together with a programme of an exhibition of the sculptures and paintings of Redvers Taylor by David Piper held at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, February-March 1972.

The file comprises manuscript versions, [c. 1978]- 1979, of his last untitled novel set in South Wales [later published as Ram with red horns (Bridgend, 1996)] with research notes, together with a letter, 1979, to his brother A. L. Davies, concerning typing costs.

The file contains mainly British and American periodicals including the following short stories and articles by Rhys Davies: 'Phaedra', Wales, August 1939; 'D. H. Lawrence in Bandol', Horizon, October 1940; 'Over at Rainbow Bottom', The Tribune, December 1941; 'The trip to London', World Digest, June 1946; 'The benefit concert', July 1947; 'Writing about the Welsh', The Literary Digest, Summer 1947; 'Harvest moon', The Norseman, January-February, 1948; 'A human condition', The New Yorker, September 1949; 'A visit to Eggeswick Castle', The New Yorker, October 1952; 'The trip to London', Ellery Queen's mystery magazine, December 1953; 'All through the night', The New Yorker, January 1957; 'The old Adam', The New Yorker, October 1960'; 'The friendly stove', House & Garden, October 1963; 'I will keep her company', The New Yorker, January 1964; 'The little heiress', The New Yorker, August 1964; 'A bed of feathers', MD's Companion, Winter 1964-1965; 'The fugitive', The Saturday Evening Post, March 1966; 'The chosen one', The New Yorker, June 1966; together with a Swedish translation of 'The last struggle' published in November 1951 and a Danish story published in Politiken Magasinet, [1939]-[1966].

The file comprises typescripts, [1936]-[1978], of 'The skull' [The skull (Chepstow, 1936)], 'Tears, idle tears', [The darling of her heart and other stories (London, 1958)], 'All through the night', [The New Yorker, January 1957] and 'A bad home influence', [Planet, October/November 1991], together with 'The benefit concert' broadcast in 1968 and 'A dangerous remedy' broadcast in 1974.

The file, [1963]-[1969], comprises the first draft of the first five parts of Rhys Davies's autobiography, together with revisions and the last section which was deleted; and the typescript chapter 'Esther' from his autobiography sent in 1963 to Donald E. Stanford, The Southern Review, Louisiana, which was subsequently returned to him.

The series comprises press cuttings, 1928-1979, mainly book reviews of the literary works of Rhys Davies, extracted from British and foreign newspapers.