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Literary and personal papers of Rhys Davies, 1901-1979, comprising manuscript drafts and typescript copies, mainly of short stories and plays, together with drafts and a manuscript text of his last novel Ram with Red Horns (Bridgend, 1996), set in south Wales. Also included are letters to and from Rhys Davies, mostly 1960s and 1970s, and papers relating to his friend, the novelist Anna Kavan, including a short draft of a work of fiction in her hand. The manuscripts include autograph and typescript drafts of the short story 'The Walled City', [?1950s], the novels Tomorrow to Fresh Woods (1941), Girl Waiting in the Shade (1960), [?late 1950s], and Nobody Answered the Bell (1971), stories collected in The Chosen One (1967), the autobiographical volume Print of a Hare's Foot (1969), and the articles 'The God on the Oven Door', 1963, and 'Anna Kavan', 1971.

Additional letters and papers relating to Rhys Davies were acquired July 2009. This group remains uncatalogued.

Manuscripts of Rhys Davies, including autograph and typescript drafts of his novels and stories.

Manuscripts, 1903-1978, of Rhys Davies, comprising autograph and typescript drafts of short stories, novels and articles, and correspondence.

Papers of Rhys Davies, 1930-1978, comprising correspondence and notes for his novel The Black Venus (1944).

Correspondence, 1930-1978, of Rhys Davies, comprising some twenty-five letters to various correspondents (ff. 1-31), including his brother Arthur Lewis Davies, 1933-1955 (ff. 1-12), his sisters Gertie E. Davies and Gladys Davies, 1960-1978 (ff. 13-18), and his friend and patron Louise Taylor, 1975-1977 (ff. 20-30); together with some twenty-seven letters to Davies from various correspondents (ff. 32-78), including G. F. Adam, 1947 (f. 32), John Fernald, 1954 (ff. 34-37), John Gawsworth, 1946 (f. 38), James Hanley, [1950s] (f. 40), Anna Kavan, [early 1960s] (f. 44), Keidrych Rhys, 1946 (f. 47), Flora Robson, 1954 (ff. 50-53, copies), Valerie Taylor, 1955 (ff. 56-70), and his sister Peggie Williams, 1945 (ff. 74-75).
Also included is a group of correspondence relating to the dramatisation of Rhys Davies's short story 'Gents Only', 1948 (ff. 79-82), and to the estates of Alice B. Toklas and Louise Taylor, 1978 (ff. 83-86).

Papers, 1940-1956, of Louis F. Quinain, comprising letters, 1940-1956, to him from his friend Rhys Davies, together with drafts of Davies's novel Tomorrow to Fresh Woods (London, 1941).

Some eighty-nine letters and cards, 1940-1956, from Rhys Davies to his friend Louis F. Quinain, containing mainly personal news and comments on the progress of his work; also included are a copy of The Welsh Nationalist, July 1941, with a few jottings by the writer, and brief notes for a story in the hand of his brother, A. Lewis Davies.

Autograph draft of parts II-IV of Rhys Davies's novel Tomorrow to Fresh Woods (London, 1941), completed in June 1941 (see NLW MS 20897E, f. 54ii).

Final typescript draft of Rhys Davies's novel, Tomorrow to Fresh Woods (London, 1941), with a few autograph corrections and a pencilled note by the author at the end of part I (f. 142) of the projected development of the narrative and estimated date of completion (NLW MS 23108C); together with an incomplete carbon copy of the same typescript with author's amendments (NLW MS 23109C).

Autograph pencil notes, [?1943], by Rhys Davies, outlining the themes, characters, structure and scenes for his novel The Black Venus (London, 1944).
An account of the practice of 'bundling' (ff. 17-19) is an extract from Wirt Sikes, British Goblins: Welsh Folk-Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (London, 1880), pp. 300-302.

The file includes letters, 1948-1978, from Michael Holroyd (2), Felix Marti-Ibañez (19), Glyn Jones (3), Gwyn Jones (1) and Richard and Alma Jones (39).

The series comprises diaries, 1958, 1966-1969, 1975, 1978, containing few entries, mainly about his appointments and the price of theatre tickets.

Autograph and typescript drafts of stories collected in the volume The Chosen One (1967): typescript of 'The Chosen One' with slight pencil revision (ff 1-45); printed version of 'The Chosen One' taken from The New Yorker with slight revision not in the author's hand, mainly to remove Americanisms (ff. 46-61); letter to Rhys Davies from The New Yorker, 1967, concerning the following item (f. 62); typescript of 'The Little Heiress' with slight pencil revision (ff. 63-88); galley proofs of 'The Little Heiress' with slight pencil revision (ff. 89-110); letter to Rhys Davies from The New Yorker, 1967, concerning the following item (f. 111); typescript with slight pencil revision of 'I will keep her company' (originally published under the title 'The company he kept') (ff. 112-142); typescript of 'Betty Leyshon's Marathon' with many sections rewritten in pencil (ff. 143-186); pencil draft of 'The Shriving of Gwenny Treharne' with the title 'A Turning point in Gwenny's life' (ff. 187-293); typescript of the preceding (ff. 294-335); pencil draft of a later version of 'The Shriving of Gwenny Treharne' with the title 'Evensong' (ff. 336-399); typescript of a later version than the preceding, with the title 'Evensong' (ff. 400-437); final typescript of 'The Shriving of Gwenny Treharne' with slight pencil revision (ff. 438-479); typescript with slight pencil revision of 'Love kept waiting' (ff. 480-505); typescript of the preliminary matter of the volume (ff. 506-511); publisher's queries arising from the typescript of the collection, with the author's replies (ff. 512-516). Unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 3.

Later (third) pencil draft of Rhys Davies's autobiography, Print of a Hare's Foot. Paper; 343 leaves; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 7.

Another carbon copy of NLW MS 2l535C with the author's revision, together with the preliminary matter of the volume, omitting the chapter 'Country'. Paper; vi + 272 leaves; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 10.

Autograph second pencil draft of Nobody answered the bell. Several series of foliation numbers by the author provide evidence of expansion and rewriting within this draft. 228 Leaves; unbound. Formerly Rhys Davies MS 13.

The group comprises the personal papers of Rhys Davies, 1901-1979, comprising letters, 1932-1979, diaries, 1958-1978 (with gaps) and miscellaneous personalia, 1901-1979.

The file comprises letters, [1955]-1978, from Josi Adair (26), Denys Val Baker (13), BBC (Wales) (3), Patricia Beck (8), Lionel Bowman (13) and Neville [Braybrooke] (2).

The file comprises forty-eight letters, 1947-1978, and four photographs from Philip H. Burton. He describes his life in the USA as a lecturer, writer and director of productions on Broadway, and his work as director of the Musical and Dramatic Theatre Academy in New York, and also discusses his own historical novel You, my brother published in 1973.

The file includes letters, 1944-1978, from Anna Kavan (35), Robert Macbryde (2), Raymond Marriott (8), Roland Mathias (4), Bill Naughton (6), and Count Potocki of Montalk (5), together with a booklet No English horse, published in 1967, containing translations of poems from the Magyar by him and a check list of publications by or concerning him published in 1974. There are also letters from Louis F. Quinain (4), Keidrych Rhys (7) and Richard Rhys (3), together with transcripts of letters from D. H. Lawrence to Rhys Davies, 1929, and of letters from Frieda Lawrence to him, 1928-1929.