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Manuscript drafts and photocopies of letters written by Gwyneth Lewis, mostly while she was in the United States, to family, friends, literary associates and universities concerning personal, social, literary and academic matters, especially her life and work at Harvard and in New York, and questions of fabrication in literature and in Welsh culture.

Letters, agreements, accounts, statements, receipts, invoices, claims and notes concerning Gwyneth Lewis’s earnings, expenditure and tax returns as a writer (outside of her salaried work for the BBC) in collaboration with literary, educational, cultural, academic, publishing and broadcasting organisations and agents, with particular regard to her published volumes of poetry and prose, contributions to journals and academic works, research, readings, talks, conference and festival contributions, shows, media work, translation work and lyrics to be set to music, as well as her financial savings and investments.

Papers relating to Gwyneth Lewis’s ‘A Hospital Odyssey’ (originally entitled ‘Hospital Fatale’), including: manuscript and typescript drafts and publisher’s proofs, with manuscript notes and corrections; typescript and manuscript notes; correspondence between Gwyneth Lewis, publishers and medical experts; and related documents including drafts of synopses and press releases. Also included are a few other poems by Gwyneth Lewis including ‘Monumental Body’ and ‘Ffyn’. Many of the drafts and notes are written on the reverse of other documents, including: a completed and annotated peer review form relating to an application for a Wellcome Trust arts award for the ‘Hospital Odyssey’ project; photocopies of articles relating to health matters; correspondence relating to Gwyneth Lewis’s work, including research, creative matters, invitations to events, copyright issues and royalties; copies of work by her and other writers; and a report and correspondence with insurers concerning repairs to her yacht 'Jameeleh'.

Manuscript notes and typescript drafts with manuscript annotations compiled by Gwyneth Lewis during the composition of 'The Meat Tree', a futuristic re-telling of the fourth branch of the Mabinogi, together with related material including correspondence (with writers, academics and publishers), copies of articles, press cuttings and photographs.

Papers relating to Gwyneth Lewis's work as National Poet for Wales, comprising: typescript drafts of poems composed by her in that capacity including 'Amgueddfa Genedlaethol y Glannau, Abertawe', 'National Waterfront Museum, Swansea', 'Glas', 'Addewid Dydd Cofio'r Holocost / Addewid ar Ddiwrnod Cofio'r Holocost' and 'Holocaust Memorial Day Pledge', with manuscript annotations; manuscript and typescript notes by Gwyneth Lewis on the nature of a national poet and her personal vision for the post, including autobiographical material; a typescript draft of her mid-office report; correspondence between her and Mike Ruddock, coach of the Welsh rugby team, concerning her poem 'Reply to the Haka'; typescripts of poems by Edwin Morgan about the Scottish Parliament and by Dennis Lewis and Meirion Jordan about Gwyneth Lewis herself; a letter and poem sent by a child to Gwyneth Lewis as national poet; press cuttings relating to Gwyneth Lewis's work as national poet and to the National Assembly for Wales; and an offprint of a review by her in Taliesin of the poetry of Menna Elfyn.

Papers relating to applications by Gwyneth Lewis for academic fellowships, including: her application form for a National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) fellowship, together with a copy of her funding contract, typescripts with manuscript annotations of her annual reports as a fellow, and correspondence and other documentation concerning the fellowship; a typescript draft of her application for the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, with manuscript annotations, together with correspondence and other information about the application; a letter to her from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, concerning the start of her fellowship there; notes by her relating to her curriculum vitae and job applications, including printouts with manuscript annotations of full drafts of ‘Sparrow Tree’; material relating to applications for a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship, and to the advertisement of the post of Senior Lecturership in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia School of Literature and Creative Writing; and an agenda and minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Royal Society of Literature.

Letters to Gwyneth Lewis from R.S. Thomas and his wife, Betty, concerning developments in their respective literary and personal lives, as well as wider literary matters; also included are letters relating to an interview with R.S. Thomas conducted by Gwyneth Lewis and Peter Robinson at Jesus College, Oxford, together with two typescript copies, one with manuscript amendments, of the interview in which he discusses his work and his views on poetry and its relationship with prose, religion and language.

Letters and postcards to Gwyneth Lewis from Les Murray concerning their writing, notably Y Llofrudd Iaith, Sunbathing in the Rain and Two in a Boat, and also their careers and the publication of Gwyneth Lewis's poetry in Quadrant magazine; other topics include wider issues of literature, culture and philosophy, as well as depression, health, travel, and a wide range of personal, professional, family and social matters, with associated photographs and annotated typescript copies of Les Murray's own poetry.

Letters and cards to Gwyneth Lewis from friends, family, university staff, literary contacts and private companies, and postcards from Gwyneth Lewis to her parents, concerning personal, literary, social, academic, career, family and domestic matters, including her published work, the possibility of publishing a collection of her poetry, her editorial activities with Poetry Wales, her life in Cambridge, her applications for work and courses, and her move to Harvard; a letter from Tom Earley also includes typescript copies of two of his poems.

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 and cards to Gwyneth Lewis from friends, family, agents, publishers, writers, academics, colleagues and businesses concerning personal, social, family, literary, academic, medical and domestic matters, notably the publication of her poetry and observations relating to her D.Phil. thesis and its possible publication, together with related photographs and press cuttings, as well as a letter and a card from Gwyneth Lewis to her husband, Leighton Denver Davies, and a letter from Roy Davies to BBC Wales staff concerning Gwyneth Lewis’s work in the Factual Programme Department.

Letters and cards to Gwyneth Lewis from friends, family, agents, writers and publishers concerning personal, social, family, domestic and literary matters including her career and published work, together with related photographs and a card written by her to Meic Stephens concerning a review by him of her work.

Letters and cards to Gwyneth Lewis from friends, family, writers and colleagues concerning personal, social, family, literary and artistic matters, including her creative work and travels on 'Jameeleh' and also a typescript poem ('La jongleuse') dedicated to her by Tony Conran, as well as cards from Gwyneth Lewis to Leighton Denver Davies and a letter written by her to her parents while at sea, and related photographs and notes.

Correspondence comprising letters, emails and cards sent between Gwyneth Lewis, friends, publishers, agents, literary associates, members of the public, academics, colleges, archival institutions, family, neighbours, commercial companies, local councils and road safety enforcement bodies concerning literary, professional, social, personal and domestic matters including the publication and performance of her work in a variety of formats, reaction to her work (notably Two in a Boat, Sunbathing in the Rain and A Hospital Odyssey), a job reference for a fellowship at Stanford written for her by the editor of Poetry Review, her relations with agents, her research, the problems of translation, a letter composed by her to John Milton (1608-1674), the registration of four of her published works under public lending right, the transfer of her papers to an archive, the sale of an antique by her to Girton College, Cambridge, literary prizes, and the work of other poets, as well as a letter to Gwyneth Lewis’s parents concerning a family friend, together with related offprints, photocopies and forms. The paper on which some of the emails are printed comprises documents relating to insurance for Gwyneth Lewis’s yacht ‘Jameeleh’.

Correspondence including emails, letters and cards between Gwyneth Lewis, friends, agents, publishers, academics, other writers, universities, festival organisers, broadcasters, readers of her work and members of her family concerning personal, social and literary matters including the writing, quality, impact, publication and performance of her work, her research (notably on birdsong, genetics and physics), her collaborations with others, depression, college fellowships, her life at Stanford, health insurance in the USA, and her status as a former National Poet of Wales, with related press cuttings and publicity material for literary events, as well as publishers’ proofs of ‘A Hospital Odyssey’ with manuscript emendations by Gwyneth Lewis, a typescript copy of an introductory address given by her at a poetry reading by Paul Muldoon, manuscript notes and personal memoranda by her, photographs (mostly printed from emails) relating to her family and work, menus of meals held in honour of Gwyneth Lewis and others, and a typescript draft of the poem ‘Roe vs Wade’ by C.K. Williams. The paper on which some of the emails are printed comprises: documents relating to health insurance in the USA; and a completed form relating to a submission for the Arts and Business Cymru Awards on behalf of a youth arts project.

Notebooks compiled by Gwyneth Lewis as a college student and journalist in the United States, comprising notes on language and literature - notably significant literary works, literary theory, philosophical and psychological issues in literature, geology, the German language, musical instruments, exploration, and the whaling history of Nantucket - as well as personal and domestic matters, together with notes for a visit to the American South and for a subsequent report, and a diary of a trip to Israel with related leaflets and press cuttings.

Papers relating to mental health, including a typescript copy of a radio version of Gwyneth Lewis's Sunbathing in the Rain produced for the BBC, a draft of an article by her entitled 'Dark Gifts' and published copies of other articles by her about her experience of depression and correspondence between her and the publisher concerning 'Dark Gifts', correspondence between her and the Mental Health Foundation concerning her contribution to Mental Health Action Week, a letter to her from the Depression Alliance about Sunbathing in the Rain, a printed summary of a day school at Cardiff University on the arts in mental health therapy, press reviews of Sunbathing in the Rain, and related notes, booklets, leaflets, photocopies, printouts and press cuttings.

Literary and artistic papers accumulated by Gwyneth Lewis including: a copy of a published volume entitled ‘NHS @ 60’ to which she contributed; publicity material for some of her work; a typescript of an eisteddfod piece in which she took part entitled 'Maes Mihangel'; a typescript of a hymn by her entitled 'Emyn y Canmlwyddiant'; a programme for a school pantomime entitled ‘Culhwch ac Olwen’ in which she took part at Ysgol Bryntaf; notes by her on Welsh language expressions relating to food; photocopies with manuscript annotations by her of articles about women’s poetry; annotated typescript copies of articles by Ian Thomson about Geneva and the San Giovanni hospital in Rome; a typescript copy with manuscript annotations of Rowan Williams’s play ‘Shakeshafte’, with an accompanying letter from the author to Gwyneth Lewis; typescript copies of poems by other poets with associated letters to Gwyneth Lewis; a typescript copy of a poem about rugby by Peter Fenton sent to Gwyneth Lewis by the Wales coach Mike Ruddock; a copy of literary extracts for a reading at Girton College; copies of published and unpublished work by other writers, artists and composers with associated publicity material and letters to Gwyneth Lewis from authors and publishers; publicity material, invitations, programmes and tickets for literary, musical and artistic events in Britain and America; a copy of South Cambridgeshire District Council’s definition of public art; postcards, drawings and watercolours; and related notes by Gwyneth Lewis.