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Celeste

Ink score with pencil annotations, for the part of Celeste in Opus 48: 'Princes of Gwynedd' [1979].

Culhwch and Olwen: An Entertainment

Facsimile copy of ink score with pencil annotations, titled 'Culhwch and Olwen: An Entertainment', and including notes listing all instrument parts and performers; instructions for narrator, choral speech, chorus, percussion, and piano duet; and pronunciation of Welsh names. Composed by William Mathias and originally commissioned for the 1967 Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales, Bala.

Opus 3: Incidental Music to Antigone (original)

Original ink score, titled 'Opus 3: Incidental Music to Antigone', and based on Jean Anouilh's version of Sophocles' tragedy 'Antigone', translated from the French by Lewis Galantière. The work is in two parts: 'Overture', dated 28 October-6 November 1953; and 'Introduction to Act II', dated 6-10 November 1953. Commissioned by the University College of Wales Dramatics Society, for a production at Aberystwyth of Jean Anouilh’s ‘Antigone’, November 1953, and recorded at Aberystwyth on 13th November, 1953, performed by: A.B. Thomas & J. Cynan Jones (horns); Hugh Jones (bassoon); Delwyn Tibbott (trombone); Jayne Filer (timpani); Edward Bor (violin 1); Jeffrey Francis (violin 2); Raymond Jeremy (viola); John Clapham (cello); and William Mathias (piano).

Opus 20: Quintet for Piano and Strings

Facsimile copy of ink score for all instrument parts with pencil annotations, dated 25 October 1964 and titled 'Opus 20: Quintet for Piano and Strings'. The file also includes the score written as separate parts for violins 1 and 2, viola, and cello, in ink with pencil annotations. Commissioned for the Aberystwyth Arts Festival, 1964.

Press and media

File comprises press releases, press cuttings and offprints of on-line news stories related to the decision of The Children's Society to close its operations in Wales and the subsequent backlash.

Miscellaneous files and speech drafts

The file comprises drafts of Ann Jones' speech in the short debate on 22 November 2001 on the decision of The Children's Society to close its operations in Wales, along with documents detailing The Children's Society's work in Wales, funding, and information from a Children's Society project in Wales, the Bridgend Advocacy and Mediation Project.

Correspondence

The file comprises correspondence between Ann Jones AM, Martyn Jones MP, chairman and other members of the Welsh Affairs Committee regarding the committee's investigation into the decision by The Children's Society to close its operations in Wales.

House of Commons debate

The file comprises papers related to a short debate in the UK Parliament on 12 December 2001, called by Julie Morgan MP, on the decision of The Children's Society to close its operations in Wales. It contains an extract from Hansard, background notes, Children's Society documents on 'realignment' and some papers related to the Welsh Affairs Committee hearing on 18 December.

Documents related to The Children's Society's review of its operations in Wales

The file comprises a number of Children's Society documents related to its decision to close operations in Wales including a report to the council from the HR Director, a report entitled "TCS Presence in Wales" dated February 2001, a report entitled "Realignment Decisions", a portfolio of the Children's Society's work in Wales along with some handwritten notes/

Poetry of Alun Lewis (photocopies)

Photocopied draft and fair-copied manuscript poetry by Alun Lewis, one signed, sent to Gweno Lewis, apparently in the hope that she might find a publishing outlet for them (notes in Lewis's hand suggest a few sources - Horizon, The New Statesman, The Listener, The Spectator). The poems comprise 'Song of Sleep' (with note in Lewis's hand addressed to Gweno, in which he explains an image in his poem 'Raiders' Dawn', references hers and his mother's birthdays and also John Lehmann's publication New Writing in Europe (Pelican Books, 1940 - for which, see, for example: https://countryhouselibrary.co.uk/products/new-writing-in-europe-by-john-lehmann-pelican-1941); 'Karanje Village'; 'Song'; 'The Fisher-Girl' (a note in John Pikoulis's hand states that this poem was unpublished but was given to Andrew Davies, Lewis's fellow-teacher at the Lewis Boys' Grammar School, Pengam (for Andrew Davies, see under Letters to John Pikoulis from academic and work colleagues of Alun Lewis and from academic institutions) and published in the Aberystwyth University magazine The Dragon (see reference in John Pikoulis: Alun Lewis: A Life (Poetry Wales Press, 1984), p. 300); 'Thoughts on the Eve of a Great Battle'; and an untitled rough corrected draft beginning 'For the darkness [ ? ] is throbbing now through all the desolate countries ....'. 'Song of Sleep' would eventually be published (as 'Songs of Sleep') in Alun Lewis's first anthology Raiders' Dawn and other poems (George Allen & Unwin, 1942) (for which, see, for example: https://www.library.wales/discover-learn/digital-exhibitions/europeana-rise-of-literacy/poetry-volumes/raiders-dawn-and-other-poems).

Estimated dates are those of composition, not of photocopying,.

Notes of interviews with Gweno Lewis

Rough handwritten notes taken by John Pikoulis during interviews, 1980 and undated, with Gweno Lewis (only one batch of notes dated).
Typescript transcript of an interview with Gweno Lewis conducted by radio executive producer and director Kate McAll and recorded in Aberystwyth in 2007.

Correspondence of Gwladys Lewis

Correspondence of Gwladys Lewis, comprising:

Photocopies of transcripts (made by Alun John) of letters written, 1944, by Gwladys Lewis to writer and translator Professor Gwyn Jones, which include poetry by Gwladys Lewis (see John Pikoulis: Alun Lewis: A Life (Poetry Wales Press, 1984), pp. 313-14).

Letters, 1975-1978, from Gwladys Lewis to John Pikoulis.

Letter, 1978, to Gwladys Lewis from the Reverend Dewi Evans, Llwynhendy, Llanelli, who was a cousin of Alun Lewis.

Envelopes marked with name of correspondent and date of correspondence.

See also under Gwladys Lewis: Biographical and literary notes for notes by John Pikoulis on letters, 1940-1942, sent to Gwladys Lewis and her husband Thomas J. Lewis from Alun Lewis.
See also under Correspondence of Alun Lewis (photocopies, typescript copies and transcripts) .

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