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Musical play based on The Corn is Green with music by Albert Hague and lyrics by Emlyn Williams: typescript of the lyrics, May 1973, together with a file of draft lyrics, c. 1972-3; manuscript music score, 1974; correspondence, 1972-83, the majority being from Joshua Logan; and a typescript marked `final version Oct. 1974'.

Play, typescript draft with manuscript revision marked `original', 1976; and typescript, 1977.

Newspaper cuttings relating to the presentation by Emlyn Williams of the manuscript of The Corn is Green to the National Library of Wales [NLW MS 18970C].

Published copy (London: Heinemann, 1979); typescript in Welsh, 1983, translated by Garry Nicholas; four typescript copies, one undated, three marked `definitive text'; published copy of the play by Gollancz Ltd, 1935, including manuscript revisions, 1986, on loose sheets.

Papers relating to Emlyn Williams's autobiography George: an early autobiography (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1961), including a bound file of notes, an envelope marked `George discards', and reviews.

Papers relating to the book Beyond belief: a chronicle of murder and its detection (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1967), including typescript drafts with manuscript revision, 1966-7 (L3/1-3); a bound file of Emlyn Williams's preliminary notes (L3/4); correspondence and papers, 1966-72 (L3/5); research material, 1966-9 (L3/6); Emlyn Williams's notebooks, c.1966 (L3/7-9); draft screen plays, 1968-9 (L3/10-12) and completed screen play, 1979 (L13); film script 1985 (L3/14); and reviews (L3/15-16).

Papers relating to the Williams family genealogy, including correspondence, 1973-1985, principally from Emlyn Williams's nephew, David Emlyn Williams; photocopies and transcripts of documents, 1658-1921, including a transcript of the will of Thomas Pennant, 1658, with related papers; a photocopy and transcript of the will of Edward Williams, 1693; photocopies of wills of other members of the Williams family, 1733-1907; photocopies of the tithe schedule, 1831, and transcript of the census records, 1851, for Cilcain; together with manuscript family trees.

Papers, c.1968-1982, relating to Emlyn Williams and Molly Williams: including an album of playbills and photographs, 1927-56, which was presented to Emlyn Williams on his birthday; a bibliography of Emlyn Williams's works by Sandra Lindley, 1979; and newspaper extracts, 1982, concerning Emlyn Williams's reception as a Freeman of Delyn Borough.

Comedy play, typescript, 1929.

Unfinished film script, typescript with manuscript revision, 1938.

Typescript with manuscript revision, 1943, marked `original'; typescript with manuscript revision, 1954, for the Tyrone Guthrie production, Swansea; two manuscript musical scores by Sydney Northcote, 1954, a stage play licence for the Royal Institution Theatre, Swansea, 1954; and an undated later typescript.

Typescripts, 1921-6.

Reviews and papers principally relating to Alan Bennett's play Forty Years On, which was performed at the Apollo Theatre, London, and included Emlyn Williams in the cast.

Reviews and papers relating to Emlyn Williams's Dickens tour of nine countries, sponsored by the British Council, and to his centenary tour of America.