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Papers relating to Gwyneth Lewis’s ‘A Hospital Odyssey’ (originally entitled ‘Hospital Fatale’), including: manuscript and typescript drafts and publisher’s proofs, with manuscript notes and corrections; typescript and manuscript notes; correspondence between Gwyneth Lewis, publishers and medical experts; and related documents including drafts of synopses and press releases. Also included are a few other poems by Gwyneth Lewis including ‘Monumental Body’ and ‘Ffyn’. Many of the drafts and notes are written on the reverse of other documents, including: a completed and annotated peer review form relating to an application for a Wellcome Trust arts award for the ‘Hospital Odyssey’ project; photocopies of articles relating to health matters; correspondence relating to Gwyneth Lewis’s work, including research, creative matters, invitations to events, copyright issues and royalties; copies of work by her and other writers; and a report and correspondence with insurers concerning repairs to her yacht 'Jameeleh'.

An education pack created by the Cardiff Millennium Centre for use in schools, containing leaflets and other teaching resources (including samples of stone, wood, steel and glass) relating to visual art, literacy and language, numeracy and mathematics, history, geography, design and technology, and science.

Manuscript drafts, and typescript drafts with manuscript annotations, of two plays by Gwyneth Lewis forming 'a new version of the Clytemnestra story', comprising ‘The Slaughterhouse : Play 1 of 2' (originally entitled ‘The Kill Floor’) and 'Deathbed : Play 2', inspired by the character of Clytemnestra in Aeschylus's Oresteia, together with manuscript notes.

Ephemera accumulated by Gwyneth Lewis relating to her academic life at Cambridge, Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and Cardiff, including college prospectuses, a press cutting of a job advertisement, a fellowship certificate, college and student event notifications and invitations (notably including literary presentations by Gwyneth Lewis and talks about her work), college menus and seating plans, programmes of student society events and a college symposium, a lecture list, information sheets and booklets about colleges and libraries, orders of service, membership forms, a grant application form, a college invoice, instructions for examination entries, instructions and programmes for degree ceremonies, annual and quarterly reports, a commemorative edition of a booklet on college etiquette, and postcards.

Notebooks compiled by Gwyneth Lewis as a college student and journalist in the United States, comprising notes on language and literature - notably significant literary works, literary theory, philosophical and psychological issues in literature, geology, the German language, musical instruments, exploration, and the whaling history of Nantucket - as well as personal and domestic matters, together with notes for a visit to the American South and for a subsequent report, and a diary of a trip to Israel with related leaflets and press cuttings.

Letters to Gwyneth Lewis from family, friends, literary associates, publishers and agents concerning personal, social, literary and academic matters, especially her published work including Zero Gravity, Parables and Faxes, Y Llofrudd Iaith and Sunbathing in the Rain, and the issues raised by them, notably depression and language, and also a proposed BBC documentary about Gwyneth Lewis, with typescript copies of poems from Zero Gravity (under its working title Coconut Postcards) including ‘A Goan honeymoon’ and ‘Red kites at Tregaron’, as well as ‘The Big Ask’ (dedicated and sent to the Wales rugby coach Graham Henry), together with the script of a BBC broadcast featuring poetry by Gwyneth Lewis (from Zero Gravity) and others, a draft typescript copy of a piece of prose sent by Zadie Smith, a typescript copy of an article on translation by Jenny Joseph, booklets on a residential contemporary writing centre in France and a collection of watercolours by Rose McKinley, and related press cuttings, photographs, flyers, certificates and event programmes.

Correspondence between Gwyneth Lewis and family, friends, teachers, literary associates, education officials, editors, and representatives of the Urdd concerning personal, social, educational and literary matters, and in particular her success at the Urdd eisteddfod in Barry and her prose and poetry contributions to printed media, together with related notes, forms, postcards, eisteddfod texts, event programmes, music scores, drawings, press cuttings and other ephemera.

Correspondence between Gwyneth Lewis and family, friends, literary associates, banks, and representatives of the Urdd and Gwyneth Lewis’s school and university college concerning personal, social, literary, school, university and domestic matters, notably her success at the Urdd eisteddfod at Llanelwedd, her life at Girton College, Cambridge, and time she spent in Brittany, together with a letter to Cymdeithas y Mabinogi, Cambridge, from the language centre at Nant Gwrtheyrn, and press cuttings, certificates, leaflets, postcards, photographs and other ephemera.

Letters to Gwyneth Lewis from family, friends, literary associates, universities, and media and insurance companies concerning personal, social, literary, academic, professional and domestic matters, especially her life and work at Harvard and in New York and her travels around the United States, together with a notebook, postcards, press cuttings, photographs, leaflets, theatre programmes, student newsletters and a map of Florence; also included are a typescript transcript and offprint of an interview with Italo Calvino by Ian Thomson, some papers relating to Elin ap Hywel (including a typescript of poems by her, a typescript of poems inspired by her work, and a typescript of a short story dedicated to her), typescripts of poems by others, and some postcards relating to Gwyneth Lewis but sent between her friends.

Correspondence and drafts of letters between Gwyneth Lewis and family, friends, teachers, Urdd representatives and literary contacts, as well as letters to her parents, concerning personal, social and artistic matters relating to her childhood, school and university days, including her literary and musical activities in school and in the Urdd, together with related poems, theatre programmes, postcards, certificates, tickets, school notes, vouchers, drawings, music scores, press cuttings, leaflets, posters and other ephemera.

Letters to Gwyneth Lewis from her sister, Marian, together with a few from Gwyneth Lewis to Marian Lewis, concerning personal, social, family and other matters during her childhood and student days.

Papers relating to two volumes of Gwyneth Lewis's poetry, namely Cyfrif Un ac Un yn Dri and Y Llofrudd Iaith, and other poetry by her in Welsh including: a manuscript copy of poems including ‘Y Drych’, ‘Bedydd yn Llanbadarn’, ‘Dymchwel y Wal’, 'Gweled yn Gyfan’, ‘Ffosilau’, ‘Yr Eicon’, and ‘Awen Morganwg; a typescript copy of ‘Cân y Gwneuthurwr Mapiau’; typescript notes by Gwyneth Lewis on a creative writing workshop in Welsh run by Gillian Clarke, and a poem entitled ‘Arnold Schwarzenegger’ that was written as an exercise during the course; printed and photocopied copies of press reviews and interviews with Gwyneth Lewis relating to Cyfrif Un ac Un yn Dri and Y Llofrudd Iaith, and associated letters to her from friends and reviewers; correspondence between Gwyneth Lewis, Cyhoeddiadau Barddas and the Welsh Books Council relating to the nomination of Cyfrif Un ac Un yn Dri for the Book of the Year Award 1997, together with related press cuttings, photographs and ephemera; correspondence between Gwyneth Lewis and Cyhoeddiadau Barddas concerning the development and publication of Y Llofrudd Iaith, and other possible projects, together with copies of the agreement between them relating to publication of Y Llofrudd Iaith; and an invoice from the publisher for copies of Cyfrif Un ac Un yn Dri.

Diaries kept by Gwyneth Lewis, incomplete in parts, noting appointments and reminders relating to her personal and professional life, with some notes on personal and literary matters.

Papers relating to applications by Gwyneth Lewis for academic fellowships, including: her application form for a National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) fellowship, together with a copy of her funding contract, typescripts with manuscript annotations of her annual reports as a fellow, and correspondence and other documentation concerning the fellowship; a typescript draft of her application for the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, with manuscript annotations, together with correspondence and other information about the application; a letter to her from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, concerning the start of her fellowship there; notes by her relating to her curriculum vitae and job applications, including printouts with manuscript annotations of full drafts of ‘Sparrow Tree’; material relating to applications for a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship, and to the advertisement of the post of Senior Lecturership in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia School of Literature and Creative Writing; and an agenda and minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Royal Society of Literature.

Papers relating to festivals, readings and workshops attended by Gwyneth Lewis, in most cases as a contributor, including correspondence between her and event organisers and participants, notes and annotated manuscript and typescript drafts relating to talks and workshops given by her, a transcript of an interview between 'CB' and [Javier Marias], and other material relating to aspects of literary events such as copies and printouts of work and interviews by other writers, promotional leaflets, press releases, and information about speakers, schedules, accommodation, travel, legal and financial matters, and the organising bodies; the festivals, readings and workshops featured include the Trialogue Conference, the International Symposium on Poetry and Medicine and Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, a Welsh Literature Abroad translation workshop in Brussels, a Poetry Live workshop, the Radcliffe Institute MA in Creative Writing, a poetry masterclass at Monmouth Women’s Festival, the Durham Book Festival, a visit to Durham University Centre for Medical Humanities, the Royal Society of Literature, the University of Warwick Medical School, Llenyddiaeth Cymru, the Hay Festival of Literature and Arts, ‘Poets Encounter Medicine’ (Glamorgan Research Centre for Literature, Arts and Science, University of Glamorgan), ‘Poems for the waiting room’ (sponsored by the Arts Council of England, the Department of Health and other organisations), the John Rylands University Library Poetry Reading, Kingston University, the Centre for Medical Humanities, Ledbury Poetry Festival, the Centre for Women’s Writing and Literary Culture (Aberystwyth University), the National Library of Wales, ‘Worlds 2011: Influence’ (Writers’ Centre Norwich), and others.

A certificate from Cardiff University recording the election of Gwyneth Lewis to an Honorary Fellowship.

Letters, invoices and permits from maritime agencies and engineers in south Wales and southeastern Ireland relating to the registration, maintenance, mooring and sale of Gwyneth Lewis's yacht 'Jameeleh'.

Draft manuscript letters and photocopies of letters written by Gwyneth Lewis to family, friends and literary and academic associates concerning personal, social, literary, musical and academic matters relating to her time as a student at Balliol College, Oxford; also included are newsletters of the Oxford Poetry Society and a photocopy of a manuscript review of ‘Mynd lawr i’r nefoedd’ by Menna Elfyn that was written by Gwyneth Lewis for publication.

Manuscript drafts and photocopies of letters written by Gwyneth Lewis, mostly while she was in the United States, to family, friends, literary associates and universities concerning personal, social, literary and academic matters, especially her life and work at Harvard and in New York, and questions of fabrication in literature and in Welsh culture.

Letters to Gwyneth Lewis from her parents, Gwilym and Eryl Lewis, concerning personal, social, family and other matters, notably her activities with the Urdd, at school, at university at Cambridge and Harvard, and living and working in the United States, together with related press cuttings and a letter from Glamorgan County Council congratulating her on her ‘A’ Level examination results.