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Correspondence, 1979-1981, including letters from Gwen Watkins (5), Roland Mathias and Gillian Clarke, concerning a dispute regarding copyright of material quoted in an article on Vernon Watkins published in The Anglo-Welsh Review.

Includes letters from Arthur Giardelli (2); Robert Nisbet; A. G. Prys-Jones; H. J. Lloyd-Johnes; Myfanwy Thomas (4); Peter Dent (3, including poems); Jonah Jones; Tom Ellis; Howard Sergeant (2); Philip Owens; Richard Ball (4); Roy Thomas (2); Gerard Casey; Raymond Garlick; Jon Dressel; and Glyn Jones.

Includes letters from Betty Mulcahy (2); Mavis Carter (6); Robert Minhinnick; Gwyn Parry (11, including a poem); Shelagh Hourahane (2); Berlie Doherty (3); Christine Evans (2); Mary Oldham; Lesley Grant-Adamson (4); Candyce Clayton (2); Berenice Moore (3); Cary Archard; Irene E. Thomas; Angela Morton (6, including a poem); Howard Bowcott; Anna Jauncey (3); Julia Bell; Moelwyn Merchant (2); Cora Greenhill; Alison Leonard (including a poem); Michael Horovitz; Maggie Hannan (including poems); Myra Schneider (including a poem); Gerard Casey; Gwyn O. Jones (2); Bill Headdon; Tony Curtis (copy); T. A. Owen (2); Roland Mathias (2); Glyn Jones (2); Eric Alexander (enclosing poems); Maurice Rutherford (3); Michael Holroyd (2); Roger Garfitt; Enid Luff; Meic Stephens; Carys Bell; Kate Foley; and Jeremy Hooker.

Includes letters from Douglas Houston; Sylvia Kantaris (2); Angela Morton (5, including poems); Lesley Grant-Adamson (3); Irene E. Thomas (4); Michael Horovitz (4); Sue Stewart; Berenice Moore (4, including a poem); Meic Stephens; Ian M. Emberson; Anne Stevenson (6); Gwyn Parry (9); Sue Moules (6); Ann Vaughan-Williams (3); Christine Evans (4); Liz Cashdan; Chris Bendon; Jeremy Hooker (2); Bill Headdon; Robert Minhinnick; Maggie Holmes (2); Nigel Forde (3); Liz Ashurst (including poems); Berlie Doherty (5, enclosing poem); Enid Luff; Gloria Evans Davies (3); John Sewell; Harold Fawkner (2); Julia Bell (enclosing poem); Glenda Beagan; Caryl Davies (2); Maura Dooley (2); Arnt Lykke Jakobsen; Jane Esson; Terry Gifford (enclosing a poem); David Dabydeen; Sally Roberts Jones; Hugo Williams (2); Joseph Clancy; Kyffin Williams; Jean Earle (2); Sian James (2); and Candyce Clayton.

Diary containing occasional entries between 1976 and 1978, and including a manuscript draft of the poem 'East Moors'.

Cuttings of articles about, or which contain references to, Gillian Clarke and her work, 1971-1980; together with leaflets concerning poetry readings etc in which she participated. The file includes reviews of The sundial and Poetry introduction 3, and letters from John Davies and Hugh McKinley.

Photocopies of three letters, 1944, 1954, and undated, from Gillian Clarke to Phyllis Williams (one of which was originally sent to her grandmother), together with a letter to her from her aunt, 1978. The original letters have been retained by Gillian Clarke.

Personal papers, 1944-1980 (with gaps), pertaining to Gillian Clarke, namely juvenilia, articles about her, photocopies of letters to her aunt, and a diary.

Juvenilia and early writings of Gillian Clarke, including a notebook containing poetry, 1954-1957, with some diary entries for 1954; a typescript copy of a poem 'To St. David . . .' composed for a school eisteddfod [?1952], with 'comments by Auntie Phyllis'; a school noteboook, 1955, containing English and French exercises; and manuscript and typescript drafts, 1955-1960 and 1963-1964 of mostly stories, including a copy of a letter to Michael Foot, 1966.

The file mainly comprises papers, 1972-1977 and [1979]-1984, pertaining to the Welsh Arts Council, mostly reports by Gillian Clarke of books for the Welsh Arts Council Literature Committee, together with reviews of books for various journals. Included are letters from John Rowlands, Tony Bianchi (2), Nigel Jenkins, and Peter Miles (4). In addition, the file contains manuscript and typescript notes, 1979-1980, which appear to be radio talks; and a report on the fourteenth Yeats International Summer School, 1973.

Various drafts of a script of a play by Gillian Clarke, written during an Academi Playwrights course, together with related notes.

Papers, 1990-1993, pertaining to Yr Academi Gymreig including minutes of the Executive Committee of the English Language Section, correspondence, including copies of letters by Gillian Clarke, copies of the Academy newsletter and Bulletin of the Welsh Academy, and accounts.

Papers, [1982-1983] and 1990-1993, pertaining to Yr Academi Gymreig and the Academi Playwrights Group.

Papers, 1965, 1972, 1988-1991, mostly correspondence, relating to The Taliesin Trust, a charitable trust set up to provide a residential writers' centre for Wales to encourage and promote writing in English and Welsh, and the establishment of the Tŷ Newydd Writing Centre. Included are letters from Sally Baker Jones, Director of the Centre (21, a number of which are copies); Menna Elfyn (2), Meic Stephens (8); Christine Evans (2); Ruth Bidgood; Islwyn Ffowc Elis; Sir Geraint Evans; and Jon Dressel. Also included are agenda and minutes of the Board of Management of The Taliesin Trust, of which Gillian Clarke was Chairman, accounts, lists of donations to the Trust, and related deeds.

Papers, 1983-1998, mostly correspondence and financial records, relating to the Frances Horovitz Memorial Trust, including papers relating to the Frances Horovitz Benefit Reading, 1983, organised by Gillian Clarke, contributions to the fund, letters regarding its administration and the eventual transfer of the Fund from the Trustees to The Arvon Foundation, where it was used towards bursaries for poets attending courses at Arvon Centres and Tŷ Newydd. The Frances Horovitz Benefit Fund was established to support Frances Horovitz and her family following her illness and subsequent death. Gillian Clarke was among the Trustees of the Frances Horovitz Memorial Trust.

Papers, 1965, 1972 and 1983-1998, mostly correspondence and financial records, relating to The Taliesin Trust and the establishment of Tŷ Newydd, and the Frances Horovitz Memorial Trust.

Photocopy of a typescript index, 1977, to Dock Leaves, with introductory remarks; a letter, 1978, addressed to Roland Mathias from Annette Thomas, who compiled the index, and a copy of his reply. Also included is a copy of the first newsletter of the Welsh Society of the Southern Tier, 1978.

Letters, 1977-[1980], mainly from John Davies, Reviews Editor of The Anglo-Welsh Review. Also included is an application by Gillian Clarke for a Welsh Arts Council bursary, 1973; an invitation for her to give a reading at The Poetry Society, 1978; letters and forms, 1978, regarding radio interviews; and a copy of 'An application from the Writers' Union of Wales to the Welsh Arts Council for aid in funding a magazine for Wales in the English language', 1984.

Letters, 1980-1984, from Greg Hill, Reviews Editor of The Anglo-Welsh Review.