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Article by Tony Curtis for inclusion in Planet magazine titled 'Playing it Cool: Poetry & Jazz in Britain', with email of response, 2003, to Curtis from John Barnie, then editor of Planet.

Copy of essay by Tony Curtis, titled 'That Golden Decade - David Jones, Ceri Richards, Merlyn Evans and Josef Herman: the four Gold Medal winners at the Welsh National Eisteddfod in the 1960s', to be included in a portfolio, published July 2008, of commissioned essays and a set of original prints to celebrate the Contemporary Art Society for Wales (CASW)'s seventieth anniversary. Essay annotated 'FINAL' in Curtis's hand, presumably indicating the final draft of the work.
Together with letter, 2007, to Tony Curtis from architect and planning consultant Eldred Evans, giving permission for Curtis to reproduce a painting titled 'The Refugees' by her father, painter, printmaker and sculptor Merlyn Evans, as part of the published essay.
See also under heading Talks and lectures by Tony Curtis.
For the Contemporary Art Society for Wales, see also April 2018 papers under heading Contemporary Art Society for Wales (CASW) .

Prose of indeterminate provenance by Tony Curtis, comprising:
Annotated typescript piece titled 'Diverse Disguises: The Welshness of Recent Poetry from Wales', together with copies of poetry by Tony Curtis and others.
Manuscripts for proposed children's stories titled 'Back to Steam' and 'Barry the Engine', with covering letter of rejection from Gomer Press.
Response to an article by Robert Nisbet in the cultural/political magazine Planet (rough manuscript and fair-copied typescripts).
Draft annotated typescripts of a short piece titled 'That day'.
Untitled manuscript draft of ?short story.
Short untitled manuscript draft.
Manuscript draft of piece titled 'Visit to Annie's'.
Short typescript pieces titled 'The Saturday Morning Thoughts of Joe', 'Occupations', 'The Journey Back' and 'The Letter', and one untitled typescript piece.
Typescript piece of indeterminate style resembling stream-of-consciousness prose (text in capitals).
Biographical piece relating to the artist Graham Sutherland.
Manuscript and typescript drafts of a short piece relating to a tortoise (see also under Individual poems (loose papers), where this piece is titled 'Tortoise').
Short typescript overviews of the work of poets Gillian Clarke, Raymond Garlick, Jeremy Hooker and John Ormond.
Draft (annotated) and fair-copy typescript pieces titled 'Playing it Cool: Poetry & Jazz in Britain', which references a work by American poet Michael S. Harper (for whom, see under heading USA: festivals, inspirations and collaborations).

Two undated letters from Tony Curtis: one, [?2014], to colleagues and/or friends in the United States, in which Curtis cancels a proposed visit due to ill-health; the other to Emily Trahair, editor of cultural and political magazine Planet, regarding an article on the painter Richard Wilson and Anglo-Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas submitted to the publication by sculptor and art historian Peter Lord. Both letters annotated/amended in the hand of Tony Curtis's wife, Margaret Curtis, with one amendment in Tony Curtis's hand.