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Letters to Sam Adams from Mair Fenn (2), Jacqueline Banerjee (3), Alun John (1), John Pikoulis (2) and Kathleen Devine (2) concerning a 'special number' of Poetry Wales dedicated to the life and poetry of Alun Lewis, to which they all contributed articles, together with a copy of the volume, a manuscript draft of John Pikoulis's article 'Alun Lewis and the imagination', and a press cutting.

The file includes papers relating to the special issue of Poetry Wales, Spring 1975, dedicated to Alun Lewis (1915-1944), poet and short-story writer. Included are letters to Sam Adams from his mother Gwladys E. Lewis, his wife Gweno Lewis, and from Freda Ackroyd and Lord Chalfont, 1974-1975. Also included is an article about Alun Lewis by his sister, Mair, five photographs, and a copy of 'Alun Lewis my Son' by Gwladys E. Lewis (1968).

Letters to Sam Adams from Professor Barbara Handy (5) concerning a Dylan Thomas number of Poetry Wales, including an article by her entitled 'The personal and the impersonal in some of Dylan Thomas's lyrics', together with letters from Rhoda Goodwin (3) concerning the 'Collected stories' of Geraint Goodwin, and a card from Myfanwy [Lumsden] about genealogical research by members of Geraint Goodwin's family.

Letters to Sam Adams and others from B.S. Johnson and others concerning Johnson's poem 'Hafod a hendre' and its inclusion in the Triskel Poets series of pamphlets, including an offprint of the poem, together with a letter from Professor Carl Faith to Johnson as editor of the Transatlantic Review enclosing a poem by Faith.

The file comprises papers relating to Geraint Goodwin (1903-1941), novelist and short story writer, and especially to Sam Adams' essay on Geraint Goodwin in the Writers of Wales series (1975), and to The Collected Short Stories of Geraint Goodwin (1976) edited by Roland Mathias and Sam Adams. Included are typescript copies of letters written by Geraint Goodwin, 1931-1938; letters from his wife, Rhoda Goodwin to Sam Adams, 1972-1975; three radio scripts based on writing by Geraint Goodwin, 1940-1946; a broadcast script of a programme about his short stories, 1958, and a volume of poems by Geraint Godwin entitled 'A First sheaf'.

Letters to Sam Adams from Professor Gwyn Jones (12) concerning poetry publications, a comparison of Anglo-Irish and Anglo-Welsh poetry, and other literary, academic and personal matters.

Letters to Sam Adams from John Ormond (4) concerning personal matters, together with copies of two poems by Ormond, and a copy of a BBC transcript of his interview with R.S. Thomas, with a manuscript review of the broadcast interview in the hand of Adams.

Letters to Sam Adams and others from Leslie Norris (6), Harri Webb (6), Glyn Jones (4) and John Tripp (5) concerning poetry publications, reviews and readings, and also social and personal matters, together with poems by Leslie Norris and Harri Webb, and a press cutting.

The series comprises letters and material submitted for publication from a number of prominent literary figures to Sam Adams, 1969-1982, (with a few addressed to Meic Stephens who was the previous editor of Poetry Wales). The letters mainly discuss contributions to Poetry Wales.

Letters to Sam Adams from prominent Anglo-Welsh literary.figures, mostly relating to Adams's post as editor of Poetry Wales, together with some related correspondence between other parties.

The file includes seventy-eight letters to Sam Adams, 1970-1975 and undated, from Peter Abbs (6), Cary Archard (1), John Barnie (3), D. A. Callard (1), Elwyn Davies (6), Tom Earley (1), Christine Furnival (2), David Greene (2), Steve Griffiths (6), Peter Gruffydd (2), Robert Havard (3), Cyril Hodges (2), Daniel Huws (1), Nigel Jenkins (1), John Ackerman Jones (3), Peter Levi (1), Peter Elfed Lewis (6), Robert Minhinnick (5), John Montague (1), C. B. O'Neill (1), Dora Polk (2), John Pook (3), Richard Poole (1), Peter Preece (1), Sheenagh Pugh (2), Sally Roberts Jones (2), Meg Seaton (1), R. George Thomas (3), Chris Torrance (3), J. P. Ward (6), and Herbert Williams (1). The letters mainly relate to Poetry Wales, and include copies of poems by John Barnie and Peter Elved Lewis, and biographical details provided by Elwyn Davies, Sheenagh Pugh, and Meg Seaton.

The file comprises thirty letters to Sam Adams mainly relating to Poetry Wales, from Euros Bowen (2), Alun Talfan Davies (2), Aneirin Talfan Davies (2), Pennar Davies (1), Idris Foster (1), Bobi Jones (1), Bedwyr Lewis Jones (2), Saunders Lewis (1), A. G. Prys-Jones (3), Ned Thomas (4) and Gwyn Williams (11).

The file comprises 322 letters to Sam Adams, from Graham Allen (11), Ruth Bidgood (9), Alison Bielski (5), Duncan Bush (4), Joseph Clancy (6), Gillian Clarke (7), Tony Curtis (8), John Davies (13), Jon Dressel (7), Raymond Garlick (11), Jeremy Hooker (36), B. S. Johnson (4), Glyn Jones (15), Roland Mathias (60), Robert Morgan (21), Leslie Norris (44), John Ormond (5), Philip Pacey (15), Alun Rees (11), John Tripp (13), and Harri Webb (16). -- The correspondence mainly relates to poetry, especially Poetry Wales, The Triskel poets series, Ten Anglo-Welsh poets (1974), and to the anthology of short stories, The Shining Pyramid (1970). There are also copies of poems by B. S. Johnson, Leslie Norris, and John Tripp; English translations by Joseph Clancy of poems by Bobi Jones; and biographical information provided by Graham Allen, Alison Bielski, Gillian Clarke, John Davies, Robert Morgan and Alun Rees.

The file comprises twenty-one letters to Sam Adams from Douglas Cleverdon (2), Rhys Davies (1), Seamus Heaney (1), Richard Hughes (3), Emyr Humphreys (2), Gwyn Jones (2), Moelwyn Merchant (2), Conor Cruise O'Brien (1), Alun Richards (3), R. S. Thomas (1), Gwyn Thomas (2), and Ted Walker (1). The correspondence relates to contributions to Poetry Wales and to other publications by Sam Adams.

Letters to Sam Adams from Michael Schmidt (9) concerning Adams' work in editing an anthology of Welsh poetry for the Carcanet Press, and also a poem by Adams and his subscription to PN Review, together with a copy of the poem.

Letters to Sam Adams from A.O.H. Jarman (1), Meic Stephens (5), R. George Thomas (1), Dora Polk (1), Stewart Conn (4), Duncan Glen (1), Edwin Morgan (3), Gus Martin (1), Ulla-Lena Lundberg (1), William Cookson (3), John Ackerman (2), John Barnie (1), Norman Schwenk (1), Ruth Bidgood (1), Lewis Davies (1), Malcolm Parr (1), Christopher Meredith (1), Peter Gruffydd (1), John Harris (2), John Stuart Williams (1), John Davies (1), Glyn Tegai Hughes (2), Pennar Davies (2), Raymond Garlick (1), Roland Mathias (5), Sally Roberts Jones (3), Nest Cleverdon (1), Howell Daniels (1), Tony Curtis (1), Ioan Bowen Rees (1), Nigel Jenkins (1), Chris Torrance (1), Walford Davies (1), Robert Morgan (2), Alexander Cordell (1), Desireé Hirst (1) and Glyn Jones (5) concerning literary, social and personal matters, especially relating to poetry, Poetry Wales and Welsh literature, including comments on Adams's own poems and reviews, together with copies of two poems by Bobi Jones (one of them in Welsh), one poem by Tony Curtis and three by Meic Stephens.

Correspondence between Sam Adams, Meic Stephens and the Christopher Davies publishing firm concerning the future of Poetry Wales, and in particular its editorship and the continuation of the Triskel Poets series, in the light of the sale of the Triskel Press to Christopher Davies, together with correspondence between Sam Adams, Evan Gwyn Williams, Vivian L. Griffiths and others concerning the influence of the Welsh Arts Council on Anglo-Welsh literature; and also between the Welsh Office and others concerning complaints about poems published in Poetry Wales.

Letters to Sam Adams from Robert Minhinnick (4), R.S. Thomas (2) and Gillian Clarke (2) concerning poems to be published in Poetry Wales and the Anglo-Welsh Review, as well as social matters, including copies of poems by Gillian Clarke, together with a letter from Anthony Conran concerning a proposed anthology to be edited by Gwilym Rees Hughes.

Letters to Sam Adams from Robert Morgan (6) concerning the publication of a novel by him entitled 'One place, one time', and also of a collection of his poems and his autobiography, together with a typescript copy of the unpublished novel.

Letters to Sam Adams from Roland Mathias (21) concerning his work as co-editor (with Adams) of the 'Collected Stories' of Geraint Goodwin, as well as other articles and reviews by Mathias in the Anglo-Welsh Review and elsewhere, especially relating to the poetry of T.J.Ll. Prichard, and other literary, social and personal matters.