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John Tripp

Ff. 1-17, Worked drafts, some typescript, of sixteen uncollected poems;. Ff. 18-25, Typescript drafts, heavily revised, of seven poems collected in 'Diesel to Yesterday' (Cardiff, 1966);. Ff. 26-32, Lists of poems, etc, c.1969;. Ff. 33-42, Drafts and worksheets, typescript and autograph, of eight poems collected in 'The Loss of Ancestry' (Swansea & Llandybie, 1969);. Ff. 43-61, Drafts and worksheets, typescript and autograph, of nine poems collected in 'The Province of Belief' (Llandybie, 1971);. Ff. 62-96, Drafts and worksheets of other poems. Formerly Welsh Arts Council MSS 34, 41, 65, 68.

Tom Earley poems

Fair holograph copies of the two collections of poems, Welshman in Bloomsbury (London, 1966) and The Sad Mountain (London, 1970).

Welsh Arts Council Manuscripts

  • GB 0210 WACMSS
  • Fonds
  • 1901-1971

Manuscripts, 1901-1971, brought together (as gifts and purchases) by the Welsh Arts Council, 1965-1971.

John Ormond, 'Requiem and celebration'

Worked typescript and autograph drafts of about a third of the poems collected in 'Requiem and Celebration' (Swansea 1969). On f. 42 is an unidentified fragment, related to another on the verso of f. 19. Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 46.

Ormond, John, 1923-1990

Herbert Williams

Ff. 1-22, Drafts and worksheets for 8 poems collected in 'The Dinosaurs' (Cardiff, 1966);. Ff. 23-44, Drafts and worksheets of 14 poems collected in 'The Trophy' (Llandybie, 1967), and two unidentified fragments;. Ff. 45-67, Typescript of 'A lethal kind of love', a play for voices broadcast by the BBC (pub. Ruthin, 1968). Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 33.

Vernon Watkins, 'Fidelities'

Cuttings from magazines, fair typescript copies, fair and worked typescript and autograph drafts of the poems collected in Fidelities (London, 1968). All but one of the poems in the volume are represented, by numbers of drafts up to twenty. Also included are drafts of the preliminaries of the volume (ff. 4-9) and a letter from Gwen Watkins (f. 3) concerning these papers. Drafts of a few poems in Fidelities are among the Vernon Watkins Papers in the British Museum, as Mrs Watkins's letter explains. A contents list shows the number of drafts of each poem, as well as locating them. Some of the drafts are dated. There are five short poems not included in Fidelities, cf. contents list.

Raymond Garlick poems

Poetry notebooks containing drafts and notes for poems, as follows: Small notebook with drafts of poems 1964-1965 (ff. 1-18); Ditto, 1965-1966 (ff. 19-36); Ditto, 1966-1967 (ff. 37-60); Drafts of two poems, originally loose leaves (ff. 61-63); Sketchbook containing worked drafts of poems, 1967-1968 (ff. 64-81); Drawing block containing worked drafts of poems, 1968-1969 (ff. 82-88); Typescript drafts with autograph changes of six poems; autograph fair copies, dated 1964, on the back of picture postcards which illustrate the poems, of 'Camargue' and 'Camargue Cross' (ff. 89-102). Most of the poems included in this volume were collected in A Sense of Europe: Collected Poems 1954-1968 (Llandysul, 1968).

Garlick, Raymond

Glyn Jones, 'The Island of Apples'

Draft of Glyn Jones's novel, The Island of Apples (London, 1965), with considerable evidence of the author's changes and rearrangement. Probably the last draft before typing. Loose leaves filed on string with final pagination running 1-436.

Letters from authors

Six letters from Charles Morgan to Geraint Goodwin 1929-1935: literary and a few personal matters (ff. 1-10); Eighteen letters from Hilda Vaughan to R. Ellis Roberts, the author and journalist, and his wife Harriet, mostly to the latter, 1927-1960: small-talk, some of it literary (ff. 11-42); Two letters from Arthur Machen, 1926 and 1929, the latter, if not both, to a Mr Parker: Machen's autograph (ff. 43-44); Three letters from John Cowper Powys to Sven Erik Tackmark, 1939-1949: personal, with some reference to literature (ff. 45-53); Two letters from W. H. Davies to William Maas of the Daily Chronicle, 1918-1919, about possible contributions; also, fair copies of the poems 'Elli' and 'Bird and Brook', with W. H. Davies's card. The former poem, beginning 'Thou comest unknown, my lady strange and rare', does not appear in the collected poems (ff. 54-60).

Oliver Onions, 'A penny for the harp'

Typescript draft, corrected in autograph, of parts One to Three (to p. 228 in the printed work) of Oliver Onions's historical novel A Penny for the Harp (London, 1952). Considerable further changes of detail were made before publication.

Onions, Oliver, 1873-1961

Alun Lewis letters

Twenty-eight letters written by Alun Lewis to Brenda Chamberlain, published, but not all in their entirety, by Brenda Chamberlain in Alun Lewis and the Making of the Caseg Broadsheets (London, 1970) (ff. 1-50). The editing of this volume was careless. Apart from minor inaccuracies and omissions, there is confusion of matter from different letters, indication of omitted matter where no omission exists and vice versa. Omitted matter amounts to about a quarter of the total. It may be classified thus: comment on Brenda Chamberlain's work mostly her poetry; trivial business concerning the broadsheets, trivial (not uninteresting) details about Alun Lewis's life; comment on Gweno. A number of omissions in the last category are of some significance; one in the letter of 3 Oct. 1943 deplorably obfuscates the meaning: '... the deep happiness of body and brain [that Gweno brought with her when at last she came to me]'. Also included are letters to Brenda Chamberlain from Vernon Watkins, 1942 (f. 51; Appendix II in the above volume), Gweno Lewis, 1944 (ff. 52-53), and John Rolph, 1956 (f. 54).

Lewis, Alun, 1915-1944

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