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Miscellaneous autograph and typescript drafts, 1924-1930, of shorter, apparently unpublished poems by Vernon Watkins.

Incomplete autograph and typescript drafts, [?1920s]-[1940s], of 'Susanna. A Masque' by Vernon Watkins (ff. 1-38), together with fragmentary autograph drafts of a verse dramatisation of the story of Judith and Holofernes (ff. 39-52), and a dramatic fragment in prose and verse, 'The Dog's Head' (f. 53), all apparently unpublished.

Autograph and typescript drafts, 1933-1966, by Vernon Watkins of verse translations from Greek, Italian and French poetry, all published in Selected Verse Translations (1977).

Autograph and typescript drafts, 1941-1966, by Vernon Watkins of verse translations from German and Italian poetry, published in Selected Verse Translations (1977), together with a few other draft translations published elsewhere.

Autograph and typescript drafts, 1958-1966, of verse translations from Hungarian by Vernon Watkins, together with related correspondence and literal translations by Tamás Kabdebó; some of Watkins's versions of poems by Attila József and Gyula Illyes were published in Kabdebó's editions of their works (1963, 1968, 1971).

Autograph and typescript essays and lecture notes, [c. 1935]-[1966], on Wilfred Owen and his poetry.

Some eighty-two letters, 1937-1977, to Vernon Watkins, with a few addressed to Mrs Gwen Watkins, from various correspondents (surnames P-R), including Keidrych Rhys (22, with one copy letter from Vernon Watkins) 1937-1956, and Ceri Richards (26, together with six of Watkins's replies) [c. 1948]-1967.

Autograph and typescript drafts, [1944]-[1954], of four poems by Vernon Watkins, published in The Lady with the Unicorn (London, 1948) (ff. 1-3) and The Death Bell (London, 1954) (ff. 4-7).
It includes a manuscript draft, [1944], of 'The Sardine-Fishers' (published as 'Sardine-Fishers at Daybreak') (ff. 2-3).

Exercise book containing a draft poem, [1920x1939], by Vernon Watkins entitled 'Taliesin', apparently unpublished (ff. 2-4).

Exercise book containing drafts of a poem, 1924, composed by Vernon Watkins during his year at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and apparently unpublished (ff. 48-54 verso, 57 recto-verso).
The volume also contains notes, 1924, on the Epistle to the Ephesians (ff. 1-11).

Manuscript and typescript drafts by Vernon Watkins for poems published in Fidelities (1968).

Manuscript and typescript drafts by Vernon Watkins for poems published in Uncollected Poems (London, 1969).

Autograph and typescript drafts, 1935-1967, of poems by Vernon Watkins, mostly published in The Ballad of the Mari Lwyd (1941), The Lady with the Unicorn (1948), Cypress and Acacia (1959), Affinities (1962), Fidelities (1968), Uncollected Poems (1969), I That Was Born in Wales (1976) and The Breaking of the Wave (1979).

Exercise book containing draft poems, 1927, apparently unpublished, composed by Vernon Watkins during a stay in Rome, some being related to those in NLW MSS 22444B and 22459E.

Notebook, 1933, containing drafts of apparently unpublished poem sequences by Vernon Watkins entitled 'The Harz Mountains'.

Exercise book containing untitled draft poems, [c. 1941], by Vernon Watkins, all apparently unpublished, together with 'Carol', a verse translation from French, published in Selected Verse Translation (1977).

Notebook containing draft poems, 1942, by Vernon Watkins, apparently mainly unpublished.

Autograph drafts, 1935-1938, by Vernon Watkins of 'The Influences. A Masque' (1976), performed at the Little Theatre, Swansea, July 1939.

Typescript drafts, 1935-1947, by Vernon Watkins of 'The Influences. A Masque' (see also NLW MS 22466E), including the text of the stage version performed at the Little Theatre, Swansea, July 1939 (ff. 154-170), later used for publication (see Vernon Watkins, The Influences (Hayes: Bran's Head Books, 1976)).

Autograph and typescript drafts, [1920s]-1967, by Vernon Watkins of verse translations from French, many apparently unpublished. Cuttings are included of some poems published in periodicals and anthologies.