- 3.
- Ffeil = File
- 1955-1970
Poems by Ena Roberts of Cardiff, 1964-1970, and two letters from Ena Roberts to Christopher Morgan, 1970. Also a copy of Ina Roberts [sic.], 'Über viele Jahre: gedichte' (1955), inscribed to Christopher Morgan, 1964.
Poems by Ena Roberts of Cardiff, 1964-1970, and two letters from Ena Roberts to Christopher Morgan, 1970. Also a copy of Ina Roberts [sic.], 'Über viele Jahre: gedichte' (1955), inscribed to Christopher Morgan, 1964.
Drafts, mostly undated, including 'Gross, a poem in four four-part parts', 1968.
Copies of 'Rumpus' poetry magazine, no's 1-6 (two copies of each, edited by Christopher Morgan), and related papers. The first two numbers are undated, and are assumed to be late 1968 and early 1969.
Contributions to poetry collections
Poetry collections containing contributions by Christopher Morgan, including 'No walls broadsheet', no's 1-4, 6-11, 13-16 (no's 5 and 12 missing), 1968-1969; 'Quickest way out', no. 2, [post 1969]. Also a Glamorgan College of Education Anglo-Welsh Poetry Manuscript Exhibition catalogue, comprising entries by 22 poets, 1975, including Dannie Abse, Alison Bielski, Gillian Clarke, Antony Conran, Roland Mathias and Christopher Morgan. Also 'Selected poems by Paul L. Weare'.
Scrapbook of work compiled by pupils of Plasmarl junior school, 8-18 June 1971.
Chris Morgan's plays at Ladycross school
Programmes for Ladycross school prizegiving concerts, 1972-1974, and notices, score and props from 'Twelfth night' as performed by Ladycross school, 1974.
Letters, mainly from Christopher Morgan to his sister Imelda, 1988-1999.
Script of 'Tell us a story' by Chris Morgan of Hawkhurst, with music by Aelred Morgan, 1979, and a rejection letter from the Oxford University Press music department, 1982.
Poems, articles, letters and notes
The contents of a ring-binder (discarded) entitled 'Christopher Morgan, Welsh poet, 1944-2014, career-based', arranged and annotated by Imelda Morgan his sister, containing poems, articles, letters and notes (including from Raymond Garlick and R. S. Thomas, 1970, Ian Robinson, 1990-2014, Patrick Muirhead, 1998-2000; also Penelope Lively, 1979, Roald Dahl, 1980, Alan Garner, 1981, Clive King, 1982, and Rosemary Sutcliff, 1983, these latter as adjudicators of the annual Marlborough House school Nicholas Brown essay competition), and including some posthumous items.
Signed or initialled typescript copies of items of Christopher Morgan's poetry and prose, collected and in some cases annotated by Imelda Morgan, his sister.
Patrick Muirhead and Michael Pockley letters
Letters to Christopher Morgan from two former pupils, Patrick Muirhead, 1999-2001, and Michael Pockley, 1999-2002.
Mainly homemade typescript collections, and a few printed collections.
A notebook of early poems, 1960-1961, and typescripts and manuscripts of poems, 1962-1980.
Collections of poems, including 'Last leaves 1964', 1965; 'The red violin: lyric and light poems, 1965-1970'; 'Adieu to the pretty minuets: translations and sequence poems, 1966-1968'; 'Anarchist in the rose garden', 1971; 'Twenty five poems', Sept. 1972, submitted for the Eric Gregory Award, 1973; 'Abroad with Columbus: a journal of a journey, August 6th-28th 1973'; 'Moving', 1990; 'Ten easy pieces for my nieces: for A & B from Uncle C', 1992; 'Packaged', a holiday in Malta, 1993; 'Paragraphs from a fifties Cardiff childhood', 1994; 'Music in my head', 1994; 'The ballad of Aberfan & Threnody for Dunblane', 1996; 'Stalking the A4: poems', 1997; 'The fire jump: fifteen key poems from the original Brynmill collection 1968-1973', 1998; 'Colossus: for Alan Turing', successive drafts, 2003-2004; 'The fire jump & other poems', proofs, 2013. Also a score set to the words of 'Driftwood', one of the poems in 'Anarchist in the rose garden', dated Gravesend, May 1991.
11(i). University College of Swansea English, Old English, French and Italian examination papers, 1968-1970, WJEC, JMB and other examination boards' GCE 'O' and 'A' level and CSE English examination papers, 1971, and teaching notes. Also letters from the Welsh Arts Council relating to Dial-a-Poem, 1971, and Leicestershire Education Department, 1971.
11(ii). University College of Swansea teacher training notes and assignments, including placements at, and reports on, Neath grammar-technical school.
11(iii). English assignments, 1968-1970.
11(iv). Department of Education psychology, French and sociology assignments, 1970-1971. Also Christopher Morgan's Diploma in Education extended essay on 'Underachievement at school' and his dissertation, 'The aims, organisational problems and practical implications of "publishing" children's writing in the secondary school', 1971.
Letters and postcards, mainly between Christopher Morgan and Ian Robinson of the Brynmill Press, Morgan's publisher, and sometime senior lecturer in the English Department, University College of Swansea.
The contents of a ring-binder (discarded) entitled 'Christopher Morgan, Welsh poet, 1944-2014, autobiographical', arranged and annotated by Imelda Morgan his sister, containing school and university certificates, CVs, autobiographical and family articles, poems, letters
'Playground and street games record cards', mainly versions of tag / touch, written by boys in Forms 1M and 1R of Neath grammar school, being homework set by Christipher Morgan, March 1971, and a copy of 'Sawdsheet Three', a cyclostyled publication of the Department of English, University College, Swansea, Easter 1973, containing research into the lore and language of Monmouthshire schoolchildren, and an addition to the checklist of dialect words in co's Brec., Glam., Mon. and Rad.
School play, William Shakespeare's 'King Henry IV Part One'
Script (37pp.) for a bowdlerised or modernised version of William Shakespeare's 'King Henry IV Part One', and an undated programme for a school performance of the same.