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The file comprises 322 letters to Sam Adams, from Graham Allen (11), Ruth Bidgood (9), Alison Bielski (5), Duncan Bush (4), Joseph Clancy (6), Gillian Clarke (7), Tony Curtis (8), John Davies (13), Jon Dressel (7), Raymond Garlick (11), Jeremy Hooker (36), B. S. Johnson (4), Glyn Jones (15), Roland Mathias (60), Robert Morgan (21), Leslie Norris (44), John Ormond (5), Philip Pacey (15), Alun Rees (11), John Tripp (13), and Harri Webb (16). -- The correspondence mainly relates to poetry, especially Poetry Wales, The Triskel poets series, Ten Anglo-Welsh poets (1974), and to the anthology of short stories, The Shining Pyramid (1970). There are also copies of poems by B. S. Johnson, Leslie Norris, and John Tripp; English translations by Joseph Clancy of poems by Bobi Jones; and biographical information provided by Graham Allen, Alison Bielski, Gillian Clarke, John Davies, Robert Morgan and Alun Rees.

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.

Letters and cards to Gwyneth Lewis from friends, family, agents, writers and other literary associates concerning personal, social, family, literary and artistic matters, including a manuscript poem ('A birthday') by Gillian Clarke and an invitation to attend a reception for the arts at Windsor Castle, with related photographs, press cuttings and ephemera.

Letters and cards to Gwyneth Lewis from friends, family, writers and universities concerning personal, social, family, literary, artistic, medical and academic matters, including her published work and her fellowships at Harvard and Girton College, Cambridge, as well as projects in which she took part, together with a proof copy; also included are cards from Gwyneth Lewis to Leighton Denver Davies and a letter to her parents from friends concerning her ordination into Gorsedd y Beirdd, with related photographs.

Includes letters from Alison Bielski (3); Leslie Norris (6); Susan Glyn (3); Dora Polk (7); Raymond Garlick (7); Gillian Clarke (29); Glyn Jones (4, including a copy of letter to Meic Stephens); J. P. Ward (6, including a typescript of the poem 'Yesterday in Cehyddion Valley', with corrections in the author's hand); Sally Roberts Jones (7); Elan Closs Stephens (5); Tony Curtis (8); David E. Painting (4); Hywel D. Lewis; A. G. Prys-Jones (8); Sam Adams (7); John Tripp (7); Belinda Humfrey (12); Rosamund Stanhope (4); Randal Jenkins (2); Robert Morgan (5); L. Alun Page (5); Jeremy Hooker (4); Ray Howard-Jones (17, including a catalogue of her first retrospective exhibition at The Sackville Gallery); Philip Pacey (3); John Ackerman (3); Leonard Clark (2); Harri Webb (5); Neville Masterman (4); Lawrence W. Hockey (4); John Stuart Williams (2); Ruth Bidgood (3); Judith Maro (3); Friedrich Konekamp (3); Cledwyn Hughes (2); and Eigra Lewis Roberts (2).

Includes letters from Robert Morgan (9); Sam Adams (8); Richard Poole (5); John Tripp (7); Sally Roberts Jones (11); Cyril Hodges (7); Raymond Garlick (7); Tony Curtis (4); Philip Pacey (3); Richard Vaughan (2); Alan Perry (3, including a typescript copy of poem 'House-Wiring'); Belinda Humfrey (5); Robin Gregory (3); Jeremy Hooker (13, including typescript copies of poems by him); Gillian Clarke (8); John Ormond (2, including typescript copies of two poems by him, signed by the author); John Stuart Williams; Ruth Bidgood (7); Ray Howard-Jones (11); Dannie Abse; Judith Maro (2); Neville Masterman (4, one addressed to Gillian Clarke); Roy Thomas (5); Sheenagh M. Pugh (3); Alison Bielski (3); Raph Maud; Dora Polk (4); Glyn Jones (4); Lawrence Hockey; Peter Finch (3); A. G. Prys-Jones (2); A. F. Leighton Thomas (3); John Pook; Bedwyr Lewis Jones (2); J. P. Ward (3); and E. G. Bowen.

Includes letters from Jennie Eirian Davies (2); Alun Llewellyn; Tony Bianchi (2); Brian Howells (4); Gillian Clarke (6); Ruth Bidgood (5); Dora Polk (3); Sally Roberts Jones (7); Meic Stephens (17); Jon Dressel (3); Glyn Jones (2); John Tripp; Selyf Roberts (2); John Davies (5); Belinda Humfrey (2); Jeremy Hooker (4); Peter Elfed Lewis (2); Robert Morgan; Moira Dearnley (2); Sam Adams (2); J. P. Ward; John Rowlands (3); Emyr Humphreys; Désirée Hirst; Leonard Clark (2); and Clive Betts.

Includes letters from John Pikoulis; Raymond Garlick (4); Gillian Clarke (2); Cary Archard (3); Meic Stephens (8); Ronald Lowe; Jeremy Hooker (4); A. G. Prys-Jones (4); Glyn Jones (4); J. P. Ward; John Davies (3); Ruth Bidgood (9); Nigel Jenkins; Jon Dressel; Ray Howard-Jones (2); and Sally Roberts Jones.

Includes letters from Jeremy Hooker (2, including a typescript of his article, 'A profile of Roland Mathias' for the New Welsh Review); Raymond Garlick (2); Glyn Jones; Gillian Clarke (4); and John Davies.

Letters to Sam Adams from Robert Minhinnick (4), R.S. Thomas (2) and Gillian Clarke (2) concerning poems to be published in Poetry Wales and the Anglo-Welsh Review, as well as social matters, including copies of poems by Gillian Clarke, together with a letter from Anthony Conran concerning a proposed anthology to be edited by Gwilym Rees Hughes.

File comprises research notes for the television series 'A Welsh life', based around interviews with distinguished Welsh people along with correspondence with the subjects of the programme and within the production team. Subjects of the programme include; Alan Protheroe, Lord Merlyn Rees, Tony Lewis, Gillian Clarke, George Charles Henry Victor Paget, 7th Marquess of Anglesey, the 7th Marquis of Anglesey, Meredith Edwards, Dannie Abse, Baroness white of Rhymney, Sir David Walters, Lord Cudlipp and Wilfred Wooler.

Letters, cards and email correspondence between Gwyneth Lewis, friends, publishers, agents, colleagues, academics, family, universities, government agencies, funding bodies, event organisers, artists and readers of her work concerning literary, social, personal and broadcasting matters, including the creation, publication, performance, translation, sales and impact of her literary work, her research, her literary collaborations and appearances, depression and illness, her inscription for the Wales Millennium Centre, her tributes to other writers, family news, fellowships at Girton College, Cambridge, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the potential purchase of her archival papers, together with draft letters from Gwyneth Lewis, a typescript draft of the introduction to her verbal presentation on ‘The Health of Poetry’ and manuscript notes and memoranda relating to her work, and manuscript notes by her on typescript poems by George Szirtes, as well as related press cuttings, forms, booklets and event schedules, and also email printouts of family photographs, a short typescript essay by an unidentified author on Welsh attitudes to Ireland, a funeral address relating to her uncle in the United States, and a draft letter from Leighton Denver Davies to the Mountain Ash Golf Club. The paper on which some of the emails are printed comprises: letters and documents concerning listing agreements, insurance and radio licensing, 2001-2007, relating to Gwyneth Lewis’s yacht ‘Jameeleh’; a copy of parts of her CV; printouts of parts of 'A Hospital Odyssey'; copies of work sent to her by Tom Bullough and C. K. Williams; a proof copy of part of Byron Rogers, The man who went into the West: the life of R.S. Thomas (Aurum : London, 2007); a completed form relating to a submission for the Arts and Business Cymru Awards on behalf of a youth arts project; and other literary miscellanea, as well as part of a typescript report on the use of the Welsh language, reports and statistics concerning the media in Wales, and an equipment list relating to a trip to Lundy.

Letters to Gwyneth Lewis from publishers, writers, academics, friends, journals (including The Poetry Society, Planet, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, and Poetry Wales), agents and the Arts Council of Wales concerning the publication of her volume of poetry entitled Parables and Faxes, and in particular publicity and reviews, as well as the publication of other poems by Gwyneth Lewis, and also literary prizes other literary business, as well as personal and social matters; together with typescript, photocopied and published press reviews of Parables and Faxes, related publicity material including lists of contacts for reviews and the launch, copies of other published work by Gwyneth Lewis and interviews with her, material from Bloodaxe Books (including guidance on house style, invoices for books ordered, and catalogues), lists of poems published by Gwyneth Lewis, and related notes and press cuttings.

Papers, 1993-1994, relating to the Welsh Academy’s ‘Poets on Poets: Taliesin and Aneirin’ event at Coleg Harlech, 1994, featuring Greg Hill, Gillian Clarke, Chris Meredith, and Tony Conran. The file includes letters (1993-1994), from Greg Hill (unsigned) (1), Kevin Thomas (1), Gillian Clarke (1), and Tony Conran (1); a poster advertising the event (1994); typescript copies of poems intended to be featured ([1994]), including a verse from Aneirin’s 'Gododdin', and the poems ‘Aneirin Speaks’ and ‘Heroes’, by Raymond Garlick, and ‘Over the Top’, ‘Elegy for the Welsh Dead in the Falkland Islands, 1982’, and ‘Becca at the Gate’ by Greg Hill; and a copy of the booklet ‘Ancestors: Translations from Early Welsh Verse & Variations on a Theme’ by Greg Hill ([?1994]).

Includes letters from Joan Rix Tebbutt (2), Robin Stemp (9), Robert W. Steel, Anna Haycraft (2), Roger de Grey (2), Bernard Dunstan (2), Hywel Harries, Henry Paget (Marquess of Anglesey, 5), John Ormond, Magnus Magnusson, John Coombes, Jack Raymond Jones (2), D. Huw Owen, Miriam Hughes, Julian Halsby, Mary Anne Stevens, Moelwyn Merchant, Gillian Clarke, David Dykes, and David Carpanini.

The file consists mostly of correspondence, 1987-1989, between the Academi's English Language Section administrator and its members. The file includes a resignation letter from Raymond Garlick over issues relating to the New Welsh Review. There is also correspondence with other prominent writers including Cary Archard, Christine Evans, Graham Thomas, Roland Mathias, Carl Tighe, Gillian Clarke and Robert Minhinnick.

Includes letters from William Blissett (2); David [Dai] Smith; Gillian Clarke (5); Belinda Humfrey (4); Arthur Giardelli (8); Jeremy Hooker (6); Ned Thomas; Raymond Garlick (6); Ray Howard-Jones; Judith Maro (4); Harri Pritchard Jones (5); John Trice; Gwyn Jones; David Blamires (7); Sally Roberts Jones (4); Meic Stephens (14); Désirée Hirst (5); Glyn Jones (5); Sam Adams (4); Brian Howells (3); Patrick Thomas (notes); A. G. Prys-Jones; Dora Polk (2); Ruth Bidgood (3); Dannie Abse (3); Jon Dressel (2); Wyn Griffith (4); Sheenagh Pugh (2); John Stuart Williams; Cary Archard; Bobi Jones; Richard Poole; and Alan Rudrum.

Correspondence comprising letters, emails and cards sent between Gwyneth Lewis, friends, publishers, agents, literary associates, members of the public, academics, colleges, archival institutions, family, neighbours, commercial companies, local councils and road safety enforcement bodies concerning literary, professional, social, personal and domestic matters including the publication and performance of her work in a variety of formats, reaction to her work (notably Two in a Boat, Sunbathing in the Rain and A Hospital Odyssey), a job reference for a fellowship at Stanford written for her by the editor of Poetry Review, her relations with agents, her research, the problems of translation, a letter composed by her to John Milton (1608-1674), the registration of four of her published works under public lending right, the transfer of her papers to an archive, the sale of an antique by her to Girton College, Cambridge, literary prizes, and the work of other poets, as well as a letter to Gwyneth Lewis’s parents concerning a family friend, together with related offprints, photocopies and forms. The paper on which some of the emails are printed comprises documents relating to insurance for Gwyneth Lewis’s yacht ‘Jameeleh’.

Printed material relating to UK poetry festivals and poetry readings attended by John Barnie, 1996-2016, including the Wales in London festival (1996); St Davids Day Poetry Festival, Harlech (1997); Aberystwyth International Poetry Festival (1998); University of Birmingham Centre of West African Studies poetry reading (1999); ‘R.S. Thomas: A Celebration’ poetry reading (2001); the book launch for John Barnie's work 'Ice' (2001); the Cross Fertilisations conference (2004); the Darwin Festival, Cambridge (2009); Wenlock Poetry Festival (2010); Talgarth Festival of the Black Mountains (2010); and Oxford Poets in Residence (2016). The file also contains notes in the hand of John Barnie ([c.2000] x [c.2010]); an ink sketch of John Barnie, artist unknown (2009); programme notes for a performance entitled 'Witch' (2012); and four photographs, of John Barnie, Gillian Clarke, Robert Minhinnick, Geoffrey Hill, Jason Walford Davies and Roy Birch, Aberystwyth (2000).