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Items relating to exhibitions by or which featured work by Vera Bassett, comprising:
Exhibition catalogues featuring work by Vera Bassett, 1954, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1966/7, 1981.
Printed fine arts magazines containing references to exhibited works by Vera Bassett. 1954, 1957, 1959, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1977
Invitations to openings of exhibitions by Vera Bassett, 1958, 1969, 1998.
Content details of a visitors' book at an exhibition by Vera Bassett. Undated.
Press releases, invoices and other items relating to exhibitions by or which featured Vera Bassett. 1964, 1968, 1983, 1991, 2005, 2011 and undated.
Société des Artistes Français exhibition form, filled in by Vera Bassett, relating to an exhibition taking place in May 1983. Details relating to exhibitions by or which featured works by Vera Bassett are also included within the correspondence section of this archive.

Draft pictorial and textual designs (watercolour, pencil and pen-and-ink) by Vera Bassett. HANDLE WITH CARE. Undated.

Correspondence mainly to and from Noel Bassett Harries, nephew of Vera Bassett, concerning the disposal of Vera Bassett's artworks following her death. Correspondence includes inventories of Vera Bassett's works. 1997-2000
Printed email, 14 June 2013, to Donald Treharne, donor of this archive, from Jean Williams of the Contemporary Art Society for Wales (CASW) relating to artworks by Vera Bassett.
1997-2006

Original and photocopied press cuttings, including a number kept in a scrapbook, relating to Vera Bassett's work. 1943-1997 and undated. Many cuttings in scrapbook partly or wholly detached: HANDLE WITH CARE.

Miscellaneous items of or relating to Vera Bassett and/or members of her family, comprising:
Copy, made 30 January 2009, of birth certificate of Vera Bassett, born 31 July 1912.

Photocopied photograph of Hendy Mixed School Standard I pupils, 1920 (Vera Bassett, if present, is not identified).
Large black-and-white photograph inscribed on dorse: 'Vera Bassett with her parents and brother Gethin c. 1946'. Gethin is wearing military uniform and holds the family corgi. Details on accompanying sheet of paper gives the date 'c. 1945'.
Black-and-white photograph of two men, the one pinning a medal onto the other's chest. No identification or date.
Section of black-and-white photograph of two women and a dog, one woman holding a cat. No identification or date.

Photocopied details of chapel membership, 1943, which includes the names of William John and Mary, Vera Bassett's parents, and of David John, Lilian and Nancy Joan Treharne, the first two names possibly those of the parents of Donald Treharne, donor of this archive.

Photocopy of printed piece written by Vera Bassett for 'Llafar', a radio magazine edited by poet, broadcaster and literary critic Aneirin Talfan Davies, titled 'Brwydrau'r Artist'. March 1953.

Copy of Vera Bassett's marriage certificate on the occasion of her marriage to William Reynolds, 27 March 1956. Copy made 7 July 2010.

Copy of death certificate, 28 January 1991, of William Reynolds, husband of Vera Bassett, who died 26 January 1991.

Copy of death certificate, 26 February 1997, of Vera Bassett, who died 24 February 1997. Copy made 30 January 2009.

Printed order of funeral service of Vera Bassett, the funeral held 5 March 1997.

Printed catalogue relating to the S4C programme Twrio, which features details of a painting by Vera Bassett. 2005

Legal details relating to Vera Bassett's parents' home in Pontarddulais. Undated.

Printed 'Inside Art' brochure.

Copy of a School Drawing Certificate examination paper dated 11 June 1945.

Correspondence (letters, telegrams and postcards) addressed to Vera Bassett which largely relate to her work as an artist. Correspondents include artist Kyffin Williams; Will Evans, artist and lecturer at Swansea College of Art (note relating to Will Evans written on dorse of flyer advertising a talk on Vera Bassett by Donald Treharne, donor of this archive, at the National Library of Wales on 10 October 2012); poet, artist and writer David Jones; poet, broadcaster and literary critic Aneirin Talfan Davies (including letter of condolence, 11 December 1963, on the death of Vera Bassett's father, William John Bassett); actor Richard Burton, with one (undated) letter from Burton's former wife, actor and theatre director Sybil Christopher (née Williams); teacher, radio producer and theatre director Philip Burton; the Medici Society, London; the British Museum; the National Museum of Wales; the National Library of Wales; and representatives of art galleries in Britain, France and the United States. Together with draft letters, 1992 and undated, from Vera Bassett to undisclosed recipients (one draft written on dorse of envelope).
Letters from B. Percy Rees (1 June 1954), Paul Hulton (28 September 1959 and undated), Aneirin Talfan Davies (20 [?July] 1975) and seven undisclosed correspondents (one letter dated 12 October 1958, remainder undated) apparently incomplete.
Some letters photocopied; some are typescript copies of the originals.
English translations attached to some original letters in French.
Undated letters kept in marked envelope.
1945-1995 and undated

Papers, largely relating to her work, of artist and draughtswoman Vera Bassett, comprising items relating to exhibitions; draft pictorial and textual designs; correspondence; press cuttings; photographs; and miscellaneous material relating to Vera Bassett or to her family.

Dates denote those of original material, not date of photocopying.