Material relating to the 1992 Garden Festival Wales held at Ebbw Vale, at which Nigel Jenkins collaborated with other poets and with artists. Items include a photocopied drawing showing an annotated landscape plan by artist Paul Davies for the Garden Festival Wales; proposed poetry text; printed agreements between Nigel Jenkins and the Garden Festival Wales; letters to Nigel Jenkins from Paul Davies, with material relating to Paul Davies' work as an environmental artist and sculptor and material relating to the artists' collaboration Grŵp Beca, of which Paul Davies was a member; letters to Nigel Jenkins from poets Peter Finch and Peter Meilleur ('Childe Roland'), who also participated in the festival, both enclosing poetry, and from poet, writer and playwright Menna Elfyn, together with a letter to Menna Elfyn from Peter Meilleur; correspondence and related papers sent between Nigel Jenkins and the organisers of the festival, some annotated by Nigel Jenkins; site maps; press cuttings; and notes by Nigel Jenkins.
The series consists of files containing election addresses and leaflets circulated in the Welsh constituencies during the 1992 General Election campaign, duplicate copies of the same, manifestos issued by the political parties, press releases published by the Labour Party Wales, the Conservative Party and Plaid Cymru, material deriving from the Liberal Democrat campaign in the Delyn constituency, press cuttings, papers concerning election broadcasts, and miscellanea.
Papers, 1940-1956, of Louis F. Quinain, comprising letters, 1940-1956, to him from his friend Rhys Davies, together with drafts of Davies's novel Tomorrow to Fresh Woods (London, 1941).
Production files for programmes produced by Teliesyn for 1992 and relating mainly to the programmes of the Living Proof series, comprising items such as programme as recorded forms and programme as completed forms with associated papers, correspondence, copyright clearance and licence agreements and letters of permission for children to be involved in filming.
This second group of correspondence, literary and personal papers of the poet Dannie Abse (b. 1923) was purchased from R. A. Gekoski, 33B Chalcot Square, London NW1 8YA, in September 1992 (B1992/41). The list follows the pattern used to describe the first group of papers, which was prepared in 1990. References to other groups of the poet's manuscripts and papers held at the National Library are to be found in the introduction to the previous schedule.
A bilingual report prepared by the Welsh Office, 1995, analysing the results of the 1992 Welsh Social Survey, undertaken to assess the ability of people to speak Welsh and the extent to which the language was used.
1993 Donation (4th donation), comprising papers relating to the Pryce family, 1854-[1923], the Davies family, 1830-1869, the Evans family of Aberystwyth, 1833-1841, and the Evans family of Ystrad Meurig, together with photographs, 1901x[1906] and miscellaneous papers.
Additional papers, comprising papers of the Caernarfon Constituency Conservative & Unionist Association accumulated by R. Glyn Jones, former President of the Association, and of the Llandudno Junction Branch and the Conservative Women's Committee, both of the Conwy Constituency.
