Showing 12 results

Archival description
Ray Howard-Jones Papers Series
Print preview View:

Address books

The series comprises a number of address books, together with a file of loose papers with the addresses and telephone numbers of Ray Howard-Jones's friends and acquaintances.

Correspondence and papers

The series comprises family letters, letters from close friends, business letters and general correspondence, letters regarding health matters, letters from Ray Howard-Jones to family and friends, testimonials, and greetings cards.

Diaries and journals

The series contains an assortment of diaries and notebooks used as journals to record interesting events in Ray Howard-Jones's life. The earlier diaries contain information written during the War years. Several of the journals contain pieces of poetry which were later published, and many contain notes of her time on Skomer island. A great deal of the diaries record medical details, and many entries were intended as personal letters to her friends and acquaintances. Some of the journals contain very little information other than telephone numbers and addresses.

Educational papers

The series contains numerous reports and notebooks from St Hilda's School, Penarth, and Leinster House, the London Garden School, together with notes of lectures and notebooks for the Slade School of Fine Art, and miscellaneous papers relating to education.

Slade School of Fine Art

Exhibition papers

The series consists of papers relating to the numerous exhibitions and projects undertaken by Ray Howard-Jones from 1930 to 1993.

Financial papers

The series comprises statements of accounts, a bank pass book, letters relating to financial matters with some bank statements, and miscellaneous financial papers, including bills, estimates, receipts and invoices.

Interests and activities

The series consists of papers which reflect the artist's diverse interests and activities over many years, comprising papers relating to her friendship with the artist and writer David Jones (1895-1974), her involvement as a young woman with the East Moors Theatre, Cardiff, papers relating to her love of music and theatre, and papers reflecting her lifelong devotion to the church and to Nashdom Abbey, Buckinghamshire, in particular. The series also includes papers relating to the career of the photographer Raymond Moore, papers relating to the time spent on the remote Skomer Island, a few papers relating to visits working in Spain in 1958 and to Italy in 1959, together with other miscellaneous papers.

Literary papers

The series consists of papers relating to the poems, mostly published in Ray Howard-Jones, Heart of the rock: poems 1973 to 1992, 1993, which were written to complement her paintings. The series also includes letters from editors of the Anglo-Welsh Review, copies of poems which were included in exhibition catalogues, and miscellaneous papers.

Membership of Arts Societies

The series comprises papers relating to the arts societies of which Ray Howard-Jones was a member. Most of the letters are mainly circulars, sent to all members of the various societies.

Passports

The series comprises two passports, issued to Ray Howard-Jones in 1953 and 1967.

Printed material

The series comprises catalogues of exhibitions where Ray Howard-Jones exhibited her work; catalogues of various other exhibitions; printed books and booklets of art interest; magazines which feature Ray Howard Jones's work; and press cuttings of Ray Howard Jones's life and works.

Radio interviews

The series comprises a number of scripts used by BBC Radio Wales for interviews about Ray Howard Jones's life and works, including 'Location Skomer Island: The Neck', 'D-Day Ships. In Dock for Loading', 'War, War, War', and 'Father David Morgan's Church', together with other papers relating to radio interviews, 1984.