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Lewis, Saunders, 1893-1985
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William Thomas ('Islwyn'),

  • NLW MS 10956E.
  • File
  • 1925-1932.

A scrapbook of material relating to William Thomas ('Islwyn'), including press cuttings, etc., in connection with negotiations for the purchase and restoration of his birthplace at Tŷ'r Agent, Ynys-ddu, 1925-1926, and press cuttings, correspondence (addressed to A. W. Games, Cwmfelin-fach), printed matter, photographs, labels attached to relics and personalia, and a balance sheet, in connection with centenary celebration meetings held in 1932 at Cwmfelin-fach and Ynys-ddu. The correspondents include Timothy Rees, bishop of Llandaff, Joseph Bradney, Saunders Lewis, Ifan ab Owen Edwards and John Kyrle Fletcher.

Scripts without music,

Scripts of a number of radio or television plays for which Alun Hoddinott apparently composed the incidental music, but for which no music has been identified. The titles include 'Treason' and 'Yn y tren' (Saunders Lewis), and 'Jackie the jumper' (Gwyn Thomas),

Saunders Lewis's dismissal from University College of Swansea,

Transcripts of letters and memoranda, both typescript and handwritten, 1936-1937, in support of Saunders Lewis, dismissed from his post as senior lecturer in the Department of Welsh, University College of Swansea, following the Penyberth arson of September 1936.
They include a manuscript draft (ff. 121-123) and partial typescript copy (f. 125), [1937], of a letter sent on behalf of the College's teaching staff to the Executive Council [?of the Association of University Teachers], expressing support for Lewis; a typescript copy of the letter, 20 October 1936, from Principal C. A. Edwards to Lewis, informing him of the decision to suspend him from his duties pending the termination of legal proceedings (f. 120), with a manuscript copy of the same, [1937] (f. 119); a typescript copy of part of a letter, 15 February 1937, to accompany a petition by members of the academic staff calling for his reinstatement (f. 124); and a note by Stephen J. Williams summarising Lewis' literary and political work, published in May 1937 in Universities Review, 9 (1936-37), 169 (f. 126).

Political papers,

Typescript and manuscript copies of political essays and letters by John Legonna, many of them written for publications such as 'Baner ac Amserau Cymru', 'Wales' and 'Catalyst', with related press cuttings and letters, concerning Welsh and Celtic nationalism, the New Nation Group, Plaid Cymru, Welsh history, pacifism, the border of Wales and England, the border of Cornwall and England, Breton nationalism, Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, the U.S.S.R. and its relations with Germany, and the relationships of Capitalism, Communism, Socialism, Fascism, Nationalism and Christianity, including a review of Ned Thomas, 'The Welsh extremist: a culture in crisis', and some observations on Saunders Lewis and Julian Cayo Evans, together with an invitation to Legonna to speak on national reconstruction at the Oxford Union, 1944, a review by John Davies of Plaid Cymru's performance in an Abertillery by-election, the agenda of a Welsh nationalist conference held at Caernarfon, 1943, a copy of the Liberal Review, 1944, and a notice of Labour Party meetings in Penryn and Falmouth.

Poems by various authors

The file comprises typescript, manuscript and printed copies of poems by various authors (in many cases the author's name is not noted). Includes a typescript copy of a poem by Peter Levi entitled 'Thirty ways of drowning in the sea', with a letter from Alasdair Clayre at All Souls College, Oxford, dated 17 Sept. 1965, asking David Jones whether he would like 'a drawing or two drawings of yours to be used as illustrations for a limited edition of this poem?' (for drafts of a reply to this letter see A2/1), and typescript copies of poems by Charles Madge ('The Storming of the Brain', dated 2 July 1950), Dylan Thomas ('Elegy'), Saunders Lewis ('The Choice', translated by R. Wynne), Stefan George ('Come in the Park described as dead and see', translated by Vernon Watkins and signed by him), William Hayward, Herbert Read, and a translation of 'Wales' by Gwenallt Jones.

Levi, Peter

Papurau J. Gwyn Griffiths

  • NLW ex 2337
  • file
  • 1948-1982

Papurau, 1948-1982, a gasglwyd ynghyd gan yr Athro J. Gwyn Griffiths, y mwyfarif yn lythyron yn ymwneud â chyhoeddiad a olygwyd ganddo ar D. J. Williams, Abergwaun. Mae'r gohebwyr yn cynnwys Kate Roberts, Saunders Lewis, Lewis Valentine, D. Gwenallt Jones, Gwynfor Evans, Aneirin Talfan Davies a Bobi Jones. Mae'r ffeil hefyd yn cynnwys papurau yn ymwneud â Phlaid Cymru, gan gynnwys llyfr cofnodion, 1948-1958, Cangen Abertawe o'r Blaid, a phapurau amrywiol eraill.

Griffiths, John Gwyn

Papurau Cronfa Saunders Lewis

  • GB 0210 MSSAUFUND
  • Fonds
  • 1929-1979

Papers of O. M. Roberts, 1929-1979, relating mainly to 'Cronfa Saunders Lewis', the fund set up to provided financial assistance to Saunders Lewis following his dismissal from his lecturing post at Swansea.

Roberts, Owen Morris, 1906-1999

Notebook

Notebook of Berta Ruck, January-June 1937, containing diary entries, ideas for fiction, comments on the progress of her writing, and pasted-in letters and cards to her, together with her typescript account of attending the trial at the Old Bailey of Saunders Lewis, Lewis Valentine and D. J. Williams, sketches of the defendants and related press cuttings and correspondence. Also pasted in are press cuttings relating to other contemporary events, including the coronation of George VI and the marriage of Edward, duke of Windsor.

Note on Saunders Lewis

A note, 1926, in the hand of A[rthur] Foulkes-Roberts, highly critical of Saunders Lewis, pasted on a printed review by the latter of Cywyddau Iolo Goch ac Eraill, ed. by Henry Lewis, et al. (1925), which appeared in Y Llenor, October 1926.

Negeseuon triwyr y tân yn Llŷn,

Messages from Saunders Lewis, D. J. Williams and Lewis Valentine to the Welsh Nationalist Party newspaper Y Ddraig Goch, September 1937, following their release from prison after serving a sentence for the arson attack at the bombing-school at Penyberth; together with a note from Lewis Valentine to Morris T. Williams and his wife, Kate Roberts.

Saunders Lewis, D. J. Williams and Lewis Valentine.

Miscellaneous letters

  • NLW MS 21818E.
  • File
  • 1900-1995

Letters, 1900-1995, of miscellaneous provenance. Correspondents include A. J. Balfour (1) 1916, W. H. Davies (2) 1912-1913, Lyubov (Aimée) F. Dostoevskaya (1, in French) 1924, Owen M. Edwards (4) 1900-1916, David Lloyd George (4) 1911-1919, Megan Lloyd George (3) 1948-1951, Richard Hughes (6) 1923-1935, Augustus John (7) [1918]-1950, Daniel Jones (2) 1972-1981, David Jones (1) 1966 (discussing some of his paintings), Jack Jones (2) 1938-1939, Saunders Lewis (5) 1951-1965, Wallis Simpson, later Duchess of Windsor (1) 1937, Edward Thomas (1) 1901, and Ralph Vaughan Williams (1) [1940].

Material found amongst books

The file comprises papers found in the Library of David Jones which was deposited at the National Library of Wales in 1975 (see The Library of David Jones. A Catalogue, 1995). They include galley proofs of 'Religious Enthusiasm' by Christopher Dawson with manuscript corrections by David Jones; University of Wales Press copy of O'Donnell lectures, 'Angles and Britons' by J R R Tolkien, 1963, with manuscript notes by David Jones; 'For the pyre at Oeta' a poem by Harman Grisewood; typescript article 'La reve du Simple Soldat Clitus' translated by Professor Louis Bonnerot; typescript article by Saunders Lewis, 'A note on the asumption', 1951; typescript poem by Mrs I K Moon, 1941; BBC radio broadcast script of 'The dying God' series, 1951; typescript review of Lucerna: studies of some problems in the early history of England by H. P. R. Finberg, 1964; and newspaper cuttings, 1950-1967.

Grisewood, Harman, 1906-1997

Llythyrau llenorion Cymraeg

  • NLW MS 22036D.
  • File
  • 1917-1986

Over seventy letters and cards, 1917-1986, of miscellaneous provenance from twentieth-century Welsh writers to various recipients; the correspondents include E. Tegla Davies (1) 1956, W. J. Gruffydd (1) 1952, R. T. Jenkins (1), 1946, David James Jones (Gwenallt) (1) 1953, T. Gwynn Jones (9) 1923-1939, J. Saunders Lewis (5) 1931-1976, Caradog Prichard (4) 1962-1972, Kate Roberts (28) 1937-1983, D. J. Williams (6) 1917-1969, and T. H. Parry-Williams (1) 1953.

Llythyrau at y Parchedig W. M. Rees = Letters to the Reverend W. M. Rees

Llythyrau a anfonwyd at y Parchedig W. M. Rees yn cefnogi safiad trigolion Llangyndeyrn yn erbyn Corfforaeth Abertawe. Y gohebwyr yw'r beirniad, gwleidydd a'r dramodydd Saunders Lewis, y bardd, nofelydd a'r gweinidog Bedyddwyr Rhydwen Williams, y cenedlaetholwr a'r gwleidydd Gwynfor Evans a'r awdur, adolygydd a'r seiciatrydd Harri Pritchard-Jones. Yn atodol, ceir nodiadau printiedig yn cyfeirio at yr ohebiaeth a dderbyniodd W. M. Rees yn ystod cyfnod y frwydr, ynghyd â detholiad wedi'i atgynhyrchu o'r ohebiaeth honno (gweler hefyd Sefyll yn y Bwlch: Brwydr Llangyndeyrn 1960-1965, tt. 140-153).
= Letters sent to the Reverend W. M. Rees in support of Llangyndeyrn residents in their stand against Swansea Corporation. The correspondents comprise the adjudicator, politician and dramatist Saunders Lewis, the poet, novelist and Baptist minister Rhydwen Williams, the nationalist and politician Gwynfor Evans and the author, reviewer and psychiatrist Harri Pritchard-Jones. Supplementary material comprises printed notes referencing the correspondence received by W. M. Rees during the fight for victory, together with a reproduced selection of that correspondence (see also Sefyll yn y Bwlch: Brwydr Llangyndeyrn 1960-1965, pp. 140-153).

Lewis

Benjamin T. Lewis; Esyr Lewis; Gareth Lewis; Mostyn Lewis; Huw Lewis; Ian Lewis; Sir John Herbert Lewis; Robyn Léwis; Saunders Lewis; Julian Lewis; Richard Lewis; and Steffan Lewis.

Letters to Sam Adams,

The file comprises thirty letters to Sam Adams mainly relating to Poetry Wales, from Euros Bowen (2), Alun Talfan Davies (2), Aneirin Talfan Davies (2), Pennar Davies (1), Idris Foster (1), Bobi Jones (1), Bedwyr Lewis Jones (2), Saunders Lewis (1), A. G. Prys-Jones (3), Ned Thomas (4) and Gwyn Williams (11).

Bowen, Euros,

Letters to Meic Stephens

Over a hundred and fifty letters, 1961-88 in English, Welsh and French, from various correspondents (surnames Jones-W). The letters, some of which include fair copies of published poems, are chiefly concerned with contemporary writing in Wales in both English and Welsh and with the recipient's work as editor of a number of volumes in this field. The correspondents include Glyn Jones (36, and three poems) 1967-86, Gwyn Jones (6) 1967-87, Saunders Lewis (1) 1974, Roland Mathias (17) 1961-86, Leslie Norris (32, and one poem) 1967-86, Eigra Lewis Roberts (2) 1970-3, R. S. Thomas (1) 1975, John Tripp (8) 1968-78, Harri Webb (14) 1967-79, and Kyffin Williams (8) 1970-1.

Letters to friends

The file comprises manuscript drafts of letters from David Jones to some of his dearest friends: René Hague, Valerie Wynne Williams (and to her mother Mrs Price), Harman Grisewood, Helen Sutherland, Tom Burns, Jim Ede, Morag [McLennan], and Saunders Lewis.

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