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Cuttings collected by Gwyneth Lewis from the British, American and Welsh press relating to a wide range of artistic, intellectual, scientific, political and cultural matters, including her own career and the activities of family members.

Accounts, invoices, receipts, forms, correspondence, agreements, reports, applications and associated ephemera relating to Gwyneth Lewis's professional and personal financial affairs, notably her earnings, expenses, tax, contracts, rights, publications, engagements and projects (including 'A Hospital Odyssey' and 'Poetry and the Body'), and also bursaries and awards, as well as her yacht 'Jameeleh' and domestic bills.

Literary and personal papers of Gwyneth Lewis, comprising poetry, prose, correspondence, notes and other professional and private material accumulated throughout her life from her school and college years until 2011, with some gaps.

Papers relating to Gwyneth Lewis’s volume of poetry in Welsh entitled Sonedau Redsa a Cherddi Eraill, including: manuscript and typescript drafts and proofs of poems for the collection (including ‘Hwiangerdd’, ‘Yr Unben’, ‘Hoff Freuddwyd yr Athro Hanes’, ‘Cofio Brwydr Corregidor’, ‘Carcharor Gwleidyddol’, ‘Angladd Aquino’, ‘Mrs Aquino’, ‘Ymladd Ceiliogod’, ‘Prynu Pleidleisiau’, ‘Trechu’r Tanciau’, ‘Gweddi am Heddwch’, ‘Cwymp Marcos’, ‘Palas Marcos, Talisay’, ‘Anrheg Redsa’, ‘Y Milwr’, ‘Dameg y Ferch Chwithig’, ‘Genedigaeth y Bardd’, ‘Cân y Plentyn Undydd’, ‘Adeste Fideles’, ‘Y Gitarydd’, ‘Wrth y Rhyd’, ‘Dyfed’ [not published in this collection], ‘Emyn y Canmlwyddiant’, ‘Iolo Morganwg’, ‘Gwneuthurwr Mapiau’ [published in Cyfrif Un ac Un yn Dri] and ‘Bro Ceridwen’); typescript drafts of some of the same poems, including variations, submitted by Gwyneth Lewis in eisteddfod competitions, with manuscript emendations; manuscript copies of English versions of some of the same poems (including ‘Lullaby’, ‘The History Teacher’s Favourite Dream’, ‘Remembering the battle of Corregidor’, ‘Political Prisoner’, ‘Buying Votes’ and ‘A Prayer for Peace’), with emendations by Gwyneth Lewis; a copy of the agreement between Gwyneth Lewis and Gwasg Gomer relating to publication of the volume, and correspondence between them concerning production and sales; letters from friends and colleagues concerning the poems and translations of them into English; a typescript report on Sonedau Redsa for the Welsh Books Council; a letter from Gwyneth Lewis to Cyhoeddiadau Barddas concerning preparations for the publication of a selection of her Welsh poems entitled Tair Mewn Un: Cerddi Detholedig (taken from her previously published volumes including Sonedau Redsa, Cyfrif Un ac Un yn Dri and Y Llofrudd Iaith), especially the cover design and foreword; and related notes and press cuttings.

Letters to Gwyneth Lewis from publishers, writers, academics, friends, journals (including The Poetry Society, Planet, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, and Poetry Wales), agents and the Arts Council of Wales concerning the publication of her volume of poetry entitled Parables and Faxes, and in particular publicity and reviews, as well as the publication of other poems by Gwyneth Lewis, and also literary prizes other literary business, as well as personal and social matters; together with typescript, photocopied and published press reviews of Parables and Faxes, related publicity material including lists of contacts for reviews and the launch, copies of other published work by Gwyneth Lewis and interviews with her, material from Bloodaxe Books (including guidance on house style, invoices for books ordered, and catalogues), lists of poems published by Gwyneth Lewis, and related notes and press cuttings.

Correspondence and drafts of letters between Gwyneth Lewis and family, friends, teachers, Urdd representatives and literary contacts, as well as letters to her parents, concerning personal, social and artistic matters relating to her childhood, school and university days, including her literary and musical activities in school and in the Urdd, together with related poems, theatre programmes, postcards, certificates, tickets, school notes, vouchers, drawings, music scores, press cuttings, leaflets, posters and other ephemera.

Correspondence between Gwyneth Lewis and family, friends, teachers, literary associates, education officials, editors, and representatives of the Urdd concerning personal, social, educational and literary matters, and in particular her success at the Urdd eisteddfod in Barry and her prose and poetry contributions to printed media, together with related notes, forms, postcards, eisteddfod texts, event programmes, music scores, drawings, press cuttings and other ephemera.

Correspondence between Gwyneth Lewis and family, friends, literary associates, banks, and representatives of the Urdd and Gwyneth Lewis’s school and university college concerning personal, social, literary, school, university and domestic matters, notably her success at the Urdd eisteddfod at Llanelwedd, her life at Girton College, Cambridge, and time she spent in Brittany, together with a letter to Cymdeithas y Mabinogi, Cambridge, from the language centre at Nant Gwrtheyrn, and press cuttings, certificates, leaflets, postcards, photographs and other ephemera.

Letters to Gwyneth Lewis from her parents, Gwilym and Eryl Lewis, concerning personal, social, family and other matters, notably her activities with the Urdd, at school, at university at Cambridge and Harvard, and living and working in the United States, together with related press cuttings and a letter from Glamorgan County Council congratulating her on her ‘A’ Level examination results.

Letters to Gwyneth Lewis from her sister, Marian, together with a few from Gwyneth Lewis to Marian Lewis, concerning personal, social, family and other matters during her childhood and student days.

Poetry, prose, research and other work produced by Gwyneth Lewis while at school and in the Urdd, and also during her early days at university.

Papers relating to financial aspects of Gwyneth Lewis's career as a writer, including publications, appearances and research.

Papers relating to Gwyneth Lewis's poetry, including compositions, notes and associated material.

Papers relating to Gwyneth Lewis's poetry, prose writing and academic work.

Manuscript and typescript drafts with emendations by Gwyneth Lewis of published and unpublished poems by her, including 'Melangell Variations', 'Cân y Gofotwr', 'Er Cof am Hugh Williams', 'The Reference Library', 'Coconut Postcards', 'Midwinter Marriage', 'Annunciation', 'A Calm', 'A Golf Course Resurrection', 'Opening the Tomb', 'Dark Ages', 'Bayeux Tapestry', 'Herod's Palace', 'Siege', 'Walking with the God', 'Tara's Visit', 'The Bonfire', 'The Telegraph Baby', 'The No Madonnas', 'Resurgence Pool', 'Sunday Park', 'Old Statues' Park in Budapest', 'Chernobyl Icon', 'Epilogue', 'Rhyfel a Heddwch', 'The Correctional Centre', 'Hive to the Vine', 'Death and the Maiden', 'Abbey Cwmhir', 'Emyn y Canmlwyddiant', 'In Central Park', 'Leaving Nantucket', 'Cân y Gwneuthurwr Mapiau', 'First Haunting', 'On the Air', 'Dalton's Geranium', 'In the Dead of Winter', 'Parable of the Awkward Woman', 'Leaving America', 'At the Airport', 'Purloined and Pursued', 'Full Fathom Five', 'Part the Third' (including a draft annotated by Derek Walcott), 'The Death of Mrs Davies', 'To a Hermit Crab', 'Thanks for a Conger Dinner', 'In the Snow Queen's Palace', 'Meat', 'The West', 'After the Snow Queen', 'The Death of Mrs Dylan', 'The Voledom of Skomer', 'Going Primitive', 'Welsh Espionage', 'The Bad Shepherd', 'A Welcome to East Oxford', 'On Mayon Volcano', 'A Love Alphabet', 'On the Estate', 'Spring at the Leper House Allotments', 'The Cut of Women's Clothes' and 'Looking for the Celts', as well as many poems not bearing names, together with notes on poetry by Gwyneth Lewis, a poster for a poetry event organised by the Oxford University Poetry Society, a printout from Poetry Review featuring Gwyneth Lewis, a printout of an article about Irina Ratushinskaya, and draft copies of pages from Parables and Faxes including the contents, acknowledgements and biographical note.

Typescript drafts of poems, with manuscript emendations, prepared by Gwyneth Lewis, some for publication in Parables and Faxes and others that had previously appeared in a number of journals and other publications or had been composed at festivals (such as Hay-on-Wye) or submitted as entries for competitions (such as the TLS/Cheltenham Poetry Competition and the Eric Gregory Awards), comprising 'Dalton's Geranium', 'Looking for the Celts', 'Spring at the Leper House Allotments', 'Leaving America', 'First Haunting', 'Parable of the Awkward Woman', 'In the Dead of Winter', 'The Bad Shepherd', 'The West', 'In the Snow Queen's Palace', 'A Love Alphabet', 'Meat', 'A Welcome to East Oxford', 'On the Estate', 'On Mayon Volcano', 'The Cut of Women's Clothes', 'Welsh Espionage', 'The Hermit's Progress', 'The Kingdom of Lightness', 'The Hedge', 'Jig-Saw Sovereign', 'The Good Place', 'Maenclochog', 'The Voledom of Skomer', 'A Soviet Waiter', 'Going Primitive', 'The Building Site', 'A Fanciful Marriage', 'The Bachelors of Balephuil', 'The Illinois Idylls', 'Pentecost', 'Squaring the Circle', 'Paradiso Voluptatis', 'Elegy' and 'The Death of Mrs Dylan', together with a printed pamphlet and sheets produced by the Oxford Poetry Society containing some of the same poems but predominantly the work of other student poets.

Papers relating to two volumes of Gwyneth Lewis's poetry, namely Cyfrif Un ac Un yn Dri and Y Llofrudd Iaith, and other poetry by her in Welsh including: a manuscript copy of poems including ‘Y Drych’, ‘Bedydd yn Llanbadarn’, ‘Dymchwel y Wal’, 'Gweled yn Gyfan’, ‘Ffosilau’, ‘Yr Eicon’, and ‘Awen Morganwg; a typescript copy of ‘Cân y Gwneuthurwr Mapiau’; typescript notes by Gwyneth Lewis on a creative writing workshop in Welsh run by Gillian Clarke, and a poem entitled ‘Arnold Schwarzenegger’ that was written as an exercise during the course; printed and photocopied copies of press reviews and interviews with Gwyneth Lewis relating to Cyfrif Un ac Un yn Dri and Y Llofrudd Iaith, and associated letters to her from friends and reviewers; correspondence between Gwyneth Lewis, Cyhoeddiadau Barddas and the Welsh Books Council relating to the nomination of Cyfrif Un ac Un yn Dri for the Book of the Year Award 1997, together with related press cuttings, photographs and ephemera; correspondence between Gwyneth Lewis and Cyhoeddiadau Barddas concerning the development and publication of Y Llofrudd Iaith, and other possible projects, together with copies of the agreement between them relating to publication of Y Llofrudd Iaith; and an invoice from the publisher for copies of Cyfrif Un ac Un yn Dri.

Papers relating to Gwyneth Lewis’s literary work in the United States, including: academic typescript essays and manuscript notes written by her for seminars at the New York Institute for the Humanities, as well as photocopies of articles, papers relating to a research grant proposal, and letters sent to her by colleagues; typescript drafts of material written by her for publication, including essays, reviews, an interview with R. S. Thomas, and poems, with manuscript notes, and agreements with publishers; manuscript drafts of essays by her in both English and Welsh about life in New York; a typescript copy of her curriculum vitae, with manuscript notes, together with letters of reference and examination results, copies of her examination certificates, and her application for a Harkness Fellowship; photocopies and press cuttings of published items written by her for journals in the United States, Wales and England; notes, letters, information leaflets, booklets, press cuttings, maps, photographs, postcards and ephemera relating to Danville, Illinois, and in particular to her research for an unmade BBC television programme about Mississippi and Louisiana.

Papers relating to Gwyneth Lewis’s literary and other activities at school and university, and at eisteddfodau during the same period, including: manuscript and typescript copies of scripts for plays, addresses and recitations, with notes; manuscript poems and notes for poems by Gwyneth Lewis, and her annotated copies of poems by other children, as well as a copy of 'Coffee incognito' by Gabriel Gbadamosi; copies of school event programmes; copies of school newspapers; material relating to the national Urdd eisteddfod, including a letter of adjudication concerning a poem by Gwyneth Lewis, a certificate awarded to her for recitation, press cuttings, songs and a poem by other pupils, and a programme; a typescript copy of a play script by Emyr Edwards; press cuttings concerning literary matters, especially competitions in which Gwyneth Lewis was involved; theatre and ballet programmes; school and Brownie ephemera; primary and secondary school work by Gwyneth Lewis; copies of her examination certificates; letters to her from family, friends, colleagues and others concerning personal, student and work matters, and other subjects of interest to her; material relating to her studies at Cambridge university, including entrance examination papers, letters to her from Girton College concerning her application and acceptance to read English, letters of reference for her from Girton; student magazines, a student’s guide to Girton College, college newsletters, a copy of an academic literary article annotated by Gwyneth Lewis, and other student ephemera; and material relating to her Harkness Fellowship at Columbia University, including letters, an application form and tax forms.

Letters to Gwyneth Lewis from family, friends, literary associates, universities, and media and insurance companies concerning personal, social, literary, academic, professional and domestic matters, especially her life and work at Harvard and in New York and her travels around the United States, together with a notebook, postcards, press cuttings, photographs, leaflets, theatre programmes, student newsletters and a map of Florence; also included are a typescript transcript and offprint of an interview with Italo Calvino by Ian Thomson, some papers relating to Elin ap Hywel (including a typescript of poems by her, a typescript of poems inspired by her work, and a typescript of a short story dedicated to her), typescripts of poems by others, and some postcards relating to Gwyneth Lewis but sent between her friends.