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Thirty-three letters and cards, 1926-1929, 1954-1965, from David Jones, artist and writer, to Douglas Cleverdon. The earlier series (ff. 1-37) concerns David Jones's engravings on copper for the edition of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner published by Douglas Cleverdon in 1929.

The series includes material relating to a BBC broadcast of The Anathemata in 1954, produced by Douglas Cleverdon, and the introduction to a broadcast of The Anathemata entitled 'Wales and the monarchy of Britain', 1953.

The series comprises twelve files of manuscript and typescript drafts of the poem 'The Fatigue' and its introduction, proofs, and scripts for a broadcast reading.
'The Fatigue' was privately printed by friends for David Jones' 70th birthday, on 1 November 1965. David Jones has dated the introduction to the poem August 18th 1965 on page 26. The BBC Third Programme (produced by Douglas Cleverdon) recorded David Jones reading this poem in March 1965. David Jones notes in these files that the poem was 'read on June 3rd 1964 for television' and 'read on Oct. 15 1964 for Brit[ish] Council for Harvard' [library of recordings]. It appears that this 'fragment' was written, or adapted from an earlier work, by David Jones following a request for material to be recorded.

The file comprises a manuscript draft of a commentary on the Ancient Mariner, numbered 6-21 by David Jones, with also corrections by David Jones, dated 17 November 1963, and a letter from Douglas Cleverdon, dated 28 November 1963, referring to the manuscript.

The file comprises one page of a draft letter from David Jones referring to the 'Appendix'. There is also a copy of part of an editorial note concerning the 'Introduction to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and the 'Appendix', with a covering letter from Douglas Cleverdon to Harman Grisewood [Feb. 1976].

Script, 1966, (21 pp.), entitled '"In country heaven" an unfinished "poem-to-be" by Dylan Thomas', produced by Douglas Cleverdon and broadcast on the Third Programme, December 1966; together with a typescript copy, (6 pp.), of an article by DC, 'Young Aesop fabling by the coracled Towy', and cutting of the published version, 'Dylan Thomas - an unpublished poem', from the Daily Telegraph weekend supplement; and a letter, 1966, from DC to Vernon Watkins in which the former refers to the broadcast and article. Also included is a memorandum, 1963, from DC regarding the programme 'Portrait of Dylan Thomas'.

The series includes two broadcast scripts of In Parenthesis which was adapted for radio and produced by Douglas Cleverdon. It was broadcast four times on the BBC Third Progamme, together with specially composed music by Elizabeth Poston. The first broadcast script is for 1942 and the second [1946]. The series also includes a manuscript and typescript copy of David Jones' introduction to the broadcast, [1946] and [1964]. Also there is a script of a programme about Welsh poetry, 1943, in which a selection of In Parenthesis was read. There are cover notes by Harman Grisewood in each file. See also David Blamires, David Jones: Artist and Writer, 1971 p. 112.

The file comprises letters to David Jones, 1943-1966, from the BBC (some incomplete and undated) including letters from Douglas Cleverdon, Glyn Jones, Alun Oldfield Davies, Elwyn Evans, Aneirin Talfan Davies, Anna Kallin, Meirion Edwards, and Tristram Powell, with also contracts and payment slips, 1946-1962, and a letter to Douglas Cleverdon from Stanley Honeyman.

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.