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David Jones (Artist and Writer) Papers Series
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Art in relation to war

The series comprises a typescript draft entitled 'Art in relation to war and our present situation', dated 'c. 1942' by David Jones on the first page, and dated '1942-3, 1946' in The Dying Gaul.

Articles about David Jones

The series comprises manuscript, typescript or proof copies of articles written about David Jones by David Blamires, Harman Grisewood, Nicolette Gray, Aneirin Talfan Davies, Eric Gill and others.

Blamires, David, 1936-

Artistic works by David Jones

The series comprises 13 files of artistic works by David Jones which were found amongst his papers. There are greeting and Christmas cards, dating from 1905, designed by David Jones and probably printed with the help of his father who was a printer's overseer. There are some original sketches, copies of frontispieces to his books, and copies of sketches, engravings, prints, and pictures.

Assembled biographical material

The series comprises biographical material assembled by René Hague for Dai Greatcoat, including letters or copies of letters from David Jones to Stanley Honeyman, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, René Hague, Jim Ede, Desmond Chute and Tom Burns; a transcript of an interview with David Jones, and letters to and from René Hague relating to the publication of the book.

Broadcasts

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.

Cleverdon, Douglas

Broadcasts

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.

Cleverdon, Douglas

Drafts, proofs and reviews

The series comprises material relating to some or all of the fragments published in The Sleeping Lord, including manuscript drafts, galley proofs and page proofs, instructions to printers, an introduction to a reading, and a review.

Final manuscript drafts

The series consists of final manuscript drafts of In Parenthesis parts I-VII, with dedication, prologue, preface, notes, and miscellaneous fragments.-- A complete draft of In Parenthesis, completed at Pigotts 18 Aug. 1932. Portions of Part I and Part II are typescript, carried over from an earlier draft. The remainder is in manuscript. There are substantial additions, sometimes involving the rewriting of complete pages or runs of pages, the earlier versions being discarded, and much revision. Much of the rewriting and revision was very likely after 1932. -- Insertions at the end of Part VII do not appear in the 1935 typing, they were made presumably before David Jones had received the typescript. Others may also have been made after the draft had been sent for typing, but in time for the typist to include them. -- The preface is dated Sidmouth, Christmas 1935. Although the text of this draft is very close indeed to that of the first typescript, the typescript must be derived from a lost intermediate source, probably a fair copy of the present draft rather than a typescript.

Financial papers

The file comprises bank statements, cheques and cheque book stubs, receipts and invoices, income tax returns, correspondence with Ethel Watts, David Jones' accountant, and papers relating to the Bollinger foundation, and Sir Kenneth M Clark's Trust. David Jones kept all his receipts, invoices, cheques and bank statements in order for his accountant to calculate his tax returns.

In illo tempore

The series comprises manuscript and typescript drafts of various autobiographical writings, collected together by Harman Grisewood while preparing the article published as 'In illo tempore'.

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Introduction

The series contains a manuscript draft of the introduction by Harman Grisewood, with notes on the contents of the volume for Fabers and an early typescript list of contents with seventeen pieces.

James Jones and other family papers

The series comprises papers relating to David Jones' father, James Jones (1860-1943), a native of Holywell, Flintshire, who was a printer's overseer for the Christian Herald and was also a lay reader at St. George's Church, Brockley. Also papers relating to David Jones' mother, Alice Ann née Bradshaw (d. 1937) and her family. She was from the Pool of London area, and had produced watercolours. Also letters to David Jones from his father and sister, marriage certificates and other family documents, and papers relating to the arrangement of funerals for family members.

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