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Letters and cards to Gwyneth Lewis, mostly from the journalist and poet James Fenton concerning personal, social, literary and journalistic matters, especially relating to the Philippines, together with related photographs and manuscript and typescript copies of his poetry; also included are letters and cards to Gwyneth Lewis from other friends concerning personal, social, literary and academic matters, with related photographs.

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, publishers, broadcasters, festival organisers and businesses concerning personal, social, domestic, family and literary matters, including her published and unpublished poems, her literary career and activities, and sailing classes.

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.

Typescript drafts of poems, with manuscript emendations, prepared by Gwyneth Lewis, some for publication in Parables and Faxes and others that had previously appeared in a number of journals and other publications or had been composed at festivals (such as Hay-on-Wye) or submitted as entries for competitions (such as the TLS/Cheltenham Poetry Competition and the Eric Gregory Awards), comprising 'Dalton's Geranium', 'Looking for the Celts', 'Spring at the Leper House Allotments', 'Leaving America', 'First Haunting', 'Parable of the Awkward Woman', 'In the Dead of Winter', 'The Bad Shepherd', 'The West', 'In the Snow Queen's Palace', 'A Love Alphabet', 'Meat', 'A Welcome to East Oxford', 'On the Estate', 'On Mayon Volcano', 'The Cut of Women's Clothes', 'Welsh Espionage', 'The Hermit's Progress', 'The Kingdom of Lightness', 'The Hedge', 'Jig-Saw Sovereign', 'The Good Place', 'Maenclochog', 'The Voledom of Skomer', 'A Soviet Waiter', 'Going Primitive', 'The Building Site', 'A Fanciful Marriage', 'The Bachelors of Balephuil', 'The Illinois Idylls', 'Pentecost', 'Squaring the Circle', 'Paradiso Voluptatis', 'Elegy' and 'The Death of Mrs Dylan', together with a printed pamphlet and sheets produced by the Oxford Poetry Society containing some of the same poems but predominantly the work of other student poets.

Manuscript and typescript drafts with emendations by Gwyneth Lewis of published and unpublished poems by her, including 'Melangell Variations', 'Cân y Gofotwr', 'Er Cof am Hugh Williams', 'The Reference Library', 'Coconut Postcards', 'Midwinter Marriage', 'Annunciation', 'A Calm', 'A Golf Course Resurrection', 'Opening the Tomb', 'Dark Ages', 'Bayeux Tapestry', 'Herod's Palace', 'Siege', 'Walking with the God', 'Tara's Visit', 'The Bonfire', 'The Telegraph Baby', 'The No Madonnas', 'Resurgence Pool', 'Sunday Park', 'Old Statues' Park in Budapest', 'Chernobyl Icon', 'Epilogue', 'Rhyfel a Heddwch', 'The Correctional Centre', 'Hive to the Vine', 'Death and the Maiden', 'Abbey Cwmhir', 'Emyn y Canmlwyddiant', 'In Central Park', 'Leaving Nantucket', 'Cân y Gwneuthurwr Mapiau', 'First Haunting', 'On the Air', 'Dalton's Geranium', 'In the Dead of Winter', 'Parable of the Awkward Woman', 'Leaving America', 'At the Airport', 'Purloined and Pursued', 'Full Fathom Five', 'Part the Third' (including a draft annotated by Derek Walcott), 'The Death of Mrs Davies', 'To a Hermit Crab', 'Thanks for a Conger Dinner', 'In the Snow Queen's Palace', 'Meat', 'The West', 'After the Snow Queen', 'The Death of Mrs Dylan', 'The Voledom of Skomer', 'Going Primitive', 'Welsh Espionage', 'The Bad Shepherd', 'A Welcome to East Oxford', 'On Mayon Volcano', 'A Love Alphabet', 'On the Estate', 'Spring at the Leper House Allotments', 'The Cut of Women's Clothes' and 'Looking for the Celts', as well as many poems not bearing names, together with notes on poetry by Gwyneth Lewis, a poster for a poetry event organised by the Oxford University Poetry Society, a printout from Poetry Review featuring Gwyneth Lewis, a printout of an article about Irina Ratushinskaya, and draft copies of pages from Parables and Faxes including the contents, acknowledgements and biographical note.

Papers relating to Gwyneth Lewis’s literary and other activities at school and university, and at eisteddfodau during the same period, including: manuscript and typescript copies of scripts for plays, addresses and recitations, with notes; manuscript poems and notes for poems by Gwyneth Lewis, and her annotated copies of poems by other children, as well as a copy of 'Coffee incognito' by Gabriel Gbadamosi; copies of school event programmes; copies of school newspapers; material relating to the national Urdd eisteddfod, including a letter of adjudication concerning a poem by Gwyneth Lewis, a certificate awarded to her for recitation, press cuttings, songs and a poem by other pupils, and a programme; a typescript copy of a play script by Emyr Edwards; press cuttings concerning literary matters, especially competitions in which Gwyneth Lewis was involved; theatre and ballet programmes; school and Brownie ephemera; primary and secondary school work by Gwyneth Lewis; copies of her examination certificates; letters to her from family, friends, colleagues and others concerning personal, student and work matters, and other subjects of interest to her; material relating to her studies at Cambridge university, including entrance examination papers, letters to her from Girton College concerning her application and acceptance to read English, letters of reference for her from Girton; student magazines, a student’s guide to Girton College, college newsletters, a copy of an academic literary article annotated by Gwyneth Lewis, and other student ephemera; and material relating to her Harkness Fellowship at Columbia University, including letters, an application form and tax forms.

Papers relating to Gwyneth Lewis’s volume of poetry in Welsh entitled Sonedau Redsa a Cherddi Eraill, including: manuscript and typescript drafts and proofs of poems for the collection (including ‘Hwiangerdd’, ‘Yr Unben’, ‘Hoff Freuddwyd yr Athro Hanes’, ‘Cofio Brwydr Corregidor’, ‘Carcharor Gwleidyddol’, ‘Angladd Aquino’, ‘Mrs Aquino’, ‘Ymladd Ceiliogod’, ‘Prynu Pleidleisiau’, ‘Trechu’r Tanciau’, ‘Gweddi am Heddwch’, ‘Cwymp Marcos’, ‘Palas Marcos, Talisay’, ‘Anrheg Redsa’, ‘Y Milwr’, ‘Dameg y Ferch Chwithig’, ‘Genedigaeth y Bardd’, ‘Cân y Plentyn Undydd’, ‘Adeste Fideles’, ‘Y Gitarydd’, ‘Wrth y Rhyd’, ‘Dyfed’ [not published in this collection], ‘Emyn y Canmlwyddiant’, ‘Iolo Morganwg’, ‘Gwneuthurwr Mapiau’ [published in Cyfrif Un ac Un yn Dri] and ‘Bro Ceridwen’); typescript drafts of some of the same poems, including variations, submitted by Gwyneth Lewis in eisteddfod competitions, with manuscript emendations; manuscript copies of English versions of some of the same poems (including ‘Lullaby’, ‘The History Teacher’s Favourite Dream’, ‘Remembering the battle of Corregidor’, ‘Political Prisoner’, ‘Buying Votes’ and ‘A Prayer for Peace’), with emendations by Gwyneth Lewis; a copy of the agreement between Gwyneth Lewis and Gwasg Gomer relating to publication of the volume, and correspondence between them concerning production and sales; letters from friends and colleagues concerning the poems and translations of them into English; a typescript report on Sonedau Redsa for the Welsh Books Council; a letter from Gwyneth Lewis to Cyhoeddiadau Barddas concerning preparations for the publication of a selection of her Welsh poems entitled Tair Mewn Un: Cerddi Detholedig (taken from her previously published volumes including Sonedau Redsa, Cyfrif Un ac Un yn Dri and Y Llofrudd Iaith), especially the cover design and foreword; and related notes and press cuttings.

Correspondence between Gwyneth Lewis, agents and friends concerning Sunbathing in the Rain: a cheerful book about depression,
including the development of the book and reactions to its publication, as well as literary, personal and social matters, together with copies of press reviews of the book and interviews about it, guest lists for the launch, publicity material, a published copy of the book and a published extract from it, and related notes.

Papers relating to Gwyneth Lewis’s literary work in the United States, including: academic typescript essays and manuscript notes written by her for seminars at the New York Institute for the Humanities, as well as photocopies of articles, papers relating to a research grant proposal, and letters sent to her by colleagues; typescript drafts of material written by her for publication, including essays, reviews, an interview with R. S. Thomas, and poems, with manuscript notes, and agreements with publishers; manuscript drafts of essays by her in both English and Welsh about life in New York; a typescript copy of her curriculum vitae, with manuscript notes, together with letters of reference and examination results, copies of her examination certificates, and her application for a Harkness Fellowship; photocopies and press cuttings of published items written by her for journals in the United States, Wales and England; notes, letters, information leaflets, booklets, press cuttings, maps, photographs, postcards and ephemera relating to Danville, Illinois, and in particular to her research for an unmade BBC television programme about Mississippi and Louisiana.