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Raymond Garlick manuscripts File
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Correspondence

Eighty-four letters, 1944-1985, to Raymond Garlick from Brenda Chamberlain, 1944-1948, 1957-[1958] (ff. 1-30), Cledwyn Hughes, 1958-1970 (ff. 31-47), A. J. Prys-Jones, 1950-1985 (ff. 48-127), and J[ohn] Redwood-Anderson, 1955-1958 (ff. 128-141), discussing a variety of matters, both personal and work related.
Some of the Brenda Chamberlain letters refer to her life on Bardsey Island.

Chamberlain, Brenda

Letters to Jacques Wirz

Over a hundred letters and cards, 1947-1957, 1985-1993, from Raymond Garlick to Dr Jacques Wirz of Basel, Switzerland, containing personal news and comments on his teaching and literary work.
Also included are typescript drafts of eight poems published in the writer's Poems from the Mountain-House (London, [1950]) (ff. 9-16) and six published in Travel Notes (Llandysul, 1992) (ff. 137-140, 142-143); a typescript draft of his article 'A poet looks back', Llais Llyfrau/Book News from Wales (Summer 1989) (ff. 134-136); together with reviews and other printed material relating to him and his work, 1988-1993.

Letters

Thirteen letters and postcards, 1950-1961, to Raymond Garlick, mainly concerning articles for Dock Leaves and The Anglo-Welsh Review.
The correspondents are A. W. Wade-Evans, 1955-1959 (ff. 1-4), John Cowper Powys, 5 March 1961 (ff. 5-6), D. J. Williams, Fishguard, 1950-1957 (ff. 7-13; in English and Welsh), and Huw Menai [Williams], 3 October 1951 (f. 14).

Wade-Evans, Arthur W. (Arthur Wade), 1875-1964

Travel diary

A notebook containing a diary by Raymond Garlick, 24 July-17 August 1950, recording his pilgrimage with his wife Elin from Wales to Rome, via France and Italy, during the Holy Year of 1950 (ff. 3-31, rectos only). The couple travelled mainly by hitch-hiking.
Garlick also collected stamps and signatures from various religious houses and churches on the route for an 'Ecclesiastical Passport' (ff. 86-90 verso, inverted text). Pasted into the volume are letters of introduction from the Bishop of Menevia and the Garlicks' parish priest in Pembroke Dock (inside front and back covers). Also included is a draft of Garlick's editorial for Dock Leaves, No. 3 (Michaelmas 1950), 1-5, drawing on his travels to give his impressions of France and Italy (ff. 43-51). Miscellaneous items of ephemera found loose in the volume have been tipped in on empty leaves (ff. 32-38); these relate to the pilgrimage, except for two receipts from a visit to Spain in August 1951 (ff. 37-38).

Poetry

Working sheets, 1951-[1955], of the poems 'Requiem for a Poet' and 'The City' by Raymond Garlick.
They comprise typescript and manuscript drafts, 1951-[1953], of Requiem for a Poet (Pembroke Dock, [1953]) (ff. 1-29), including a fair typescript copy, lacking the Offertorium, [1953] (ff. 18-29); and manuscript verses and a heavily emended typescript draft of 'The City', [1955] (ff. 30-35). This was published in Y Ddinas, June 1955, p. 14, and was later incorporated into the poem Blaenau Observed ([n.p.], [1956]). Also included is a covering letter, 12 January 1957, from Raymond Garlick, Blaenau Ffestiniog, to the National Library of Wales (f. i).

Jonah Jones letters

Forty-nine manuscript and typescript letters and cards, 1955-2003, from Jonah Jones to Raymond Garlick, containing personal news and matters relating to work (ff. 1-39, 44-45, 48-55, 57-69); along with seven letters from Jones' wife Judith Maro, 1972-1973, 1991 (ff. 40-43, 46-47, 56).
The earlier letters (ff. 1-31) mainly concern articles for Dock Leaves and Anglo-Welsh Review and include captions for plates illustrating sculptures by Jones (ff. 5-6; see Dock Leaves, 7 (Winter 1956), between pp. 32-33) and the manuscript for Jones' article 'Kyffin Williams' (ff. 10-13; see Dock Leaves, 8 (Summer 1957), 42-43). Also included are Jones' curriculum vitae, [2003] (f. 65), a poem, [2003] (f. 66), and obituaries, 2004-2005 (ff. 70-72).

Jones, Jonah.

Diary

Diary of Raymond Garlick, Blaenau Ffestiniog, for 1956, with one day to a page, containing entries for 1 January-3 May (ff. 2-62 verso), with occasional scattered entries thereafter, mostly concerning personal and family matters, his writing and broadcasting, teaching at Ffestiniog County School and his activities in the Catholic Church.
There are references throughout to Garlick's literary and other friends, most notably John Cowper Powys and his wife Phyllis Playter (ff. 3-27 verso passim, 39 verso, 42 verso, 53, 55, 59 verso, 151 recto-verso, 158 verso). Among the school pupils mentioned are the lexicographer Bruce Griffiths (ff. 7, 33 verso) and the actor Grey Evans (f. 16 verso). The volume contains drafts and fair copies of several poems, including thirteen stanzas of 'Blaenau Observed', the poem for radio, transmitted 14 June (ff. 36, 52 verso, 53 verso); the unfinished 'Octave of a sonnet on the Scourging of Our Lord' (f. 44 verso); the sonnets 'The Crowning with Thorns' (f. 45 verso), 'The October Risings' (f. 153) and 'The November Suppressions' (ff. 155 verso, 158); eleven stanzas of a poem concerning a pilgrimage to Lourdes (ff. 12 verso, 13 verso-14 verso); and a single verse (f. 56 verso). 'Blaenau Observed' was published as a pamphlet in 1956, reprinted by the Dock Leaves Press in 1957 and was included in A Sense of Europe: Collected Poems 1954-1968 (Llandysul, 1968); 'The November Suppressions' was published in The Welsh Nation, 10 November 1956, p. 1 (see cutting on f. 158).

Diary

Diary of Raymond Garlick, Blaenau Ffestiniog, for 1957, with two days to a page, containing entries for 27 December 1956-31 December 1957 (pp. 4-215), mostly concerning personal and family matters, his writing and broadcasting, teaching at Ffestiniog County School and his activities in the Catholic Church.
There are references throughout to Garlick's literary and other friends, most notably John Cowper Powys and his wife Phyllis Playter, including preparations for a radio broadcast on Powys in which Garlick participated (pp. 4-150 passim, 183, 186-187). Among the school pupils mentioned are Grey Evans (the actor), who, with his father, accompanied Garlick on an Easter trip to Rome (pp. 8, 44, 46, 67-72, 152), and former pupil Bruce [Griffiths] (p. 11). Incidents recounted include a row with the artist Frederick Konekamp (p. 45), and Dyfnallt Morgan winning the crown at the National Eisteddfod, with Aneirin Talfan [Davies]'s comments on the Gorsedd (p. 131). The family briefly took in as a lodger Susan Russell, Viscountess Amberley, the daughter of the poet Vachel Lindsay and estranged wife of Bertrand Russell's son (pp. 183-199 passim). The volume contains fair copies of parts of three poems, comprising the first verse of 'Monsignor Tudor' (p. 95), four verses of 'Therapy' (p. 101) and a prayer, 'Heart of Jesus, in you I place…' (p. 144); 'Monsignor Tudor' was collected in A Sense of Europe: Collected Poems 1954-1968 (Llandysul, 1968), p. 85. The volume also contains various cuttings, memoranda and accounts (pp. 1, 3, 125, 220-237 and inside back cover).

Elwyn Davies letters

Over sixty letters, 1969-1993, to Raymond Garlick from Elwyn Davies, journalist, teacher, translator and poet, containing personal news and comments on their own work and that of other Anglo-Welsh writers.

Davies, Elwyn, 1912-1994

Poems

A volume in the hand of Raymond Garlick containing drafts of some sixteen poems, dated April 1969-January 1970.
Eight of the poems are noted as having been published in Poetry Wales, two in Akros and one in Clw. Ten of the poems were included in Raymond Garlick, A Sense of Time: Poems and Antipoems 1969-1972 (Llandysul, 1972). Four poems are possibly unpublished.

Welsh language campaign

Three files of correspondence, newspaper cuttings and other papers, 1969-1984, compiled by Raymond Garlick in support of the 1970s campaign of non-violent direct action concerning the status of the Welsh language, in which his wife and children were involved. The files contain papers relating to the use of Welsh during court proceedings involving protesters, and in prisons (ff. 1-133) and the actions of the police during various protests and court appearances (ff. 134-219) as well as general documents and correspondence (ff. 220-343).
The correspondents include various judges and court officials (ff. 1, 11-12, 42-44, 65-66, 70, 74, 82-83, 104, 111, 208, 224), the Home Office (ff. 2-5, 56-58, 75), the National Council for Civil Liberties (ff. 6-7, 101, 173, 183, 261-262, 318-319), the Lord Chancellor’s office (ff. 9-10, 29, 34-38, 45-48, 94, 310-313), the Law Society (ff. 20-28, 102-103), Dyfed-Powys Constabulary (ff. 134-148, 184-185, 191, 210-212), South Wales Constabulary (ff. 149-151, 186-188, 193-195, 197-200), Gwynedd Constabulary (ff. 152-156, 177, 180, 182, 204-205), Manchester and Salford Police (ff. 169-171), the BBC (ff. 324-334, 336-337), newspapers including the Times and the Western Mail (ff. 49-50, 52, 54, 68-69, 73, 84, 107-108, 110, 116, 119, 121, 172, 196, 226, 234), and Welsh members of parliament including Gwynoro Jones (ff. 59-60, 178-179, 181, 201-203, 309) and Tom Ellis (ff. 117, 258, 268-271, 280-282). Also included are papers relating to the memorandum on the workings of the Welsh Language Act (1967) submitted to Lord Justice Edmund Davies in 1972 by the National Council for Civil Liberties (ff. 263-300, 303-304, 314-317). Other items of interest are letters in Welsh, from Dafydd Iwan, 5 June 1969, concerning the demonstration against Prince Charles’s attendance at the Urdd eisteddfod (f. 220) and from Iestyn Garlick to his parents, 19 April 1972, while on remand at H.M. Remand Centre, Cardiff (f. 252).

Great Britain. Home Office

Poems

A volume in the hand of Raymond Garlick containing drafts of twenty-one poems, dated March-December 1970.
Thirteen of the poems are noted as having been published in various periodicals, mainly Poetry Wales. Seventeen of the poems were included in Raymond Garlick, A Sense of Time: Poems and Antipoems 1969-1972 (Llandysul, 1972); the remaining four poems are possibly unpublished.

An introduction to Anglo-Welsh Literature

Proofs of the first edition of Raymond Garlick, An Introduction to Anglo-Welsh Literature (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1970), used by the author as copy for the second edition, published 1972.
Each folio consists of two pages printed side-by-side, comprising proofs of the title page and pp. 1-97 (ff. 4-52). These are preceded by a new typescript prologue, dated May 1972 (ff. 1-3) and followed by an author’s note (pasted in on f. 53). Minor corrections and emendations have been supplied by the author in red and black ink; more substantial alterations and additions to the text have been supplied in typescript as paste overs or as paper flaps attached to page margins (ff. 8, 10-11, 13, 28-30, 32, 34, 39, 42, 50).

Poems

A volume in the hand of Raymond Garlick containing manuscript drafts, together with a few pasted-in typescripts, of nineteen poems, dated 2 January 1971-26 April 1972.
Six of the poems were published in Poetry Wales, Planet and Poems '73, while 'Acclamation' (ff. 1-2, 3, 4-6, 7-8, 9-14 (rectos only), 24 recto-verso) was broadcast on BBC Radio on 24 February 1972. Thirteen of the poems, including 'Documentary' (ff. 16-22, rectos only) and a revised version of 'Acclamation', were included in Raymond Garlick, A Sense of Time: Poems and Antipoems 1969-1972 (Llandysul, 1972). Five poems are apparently unpublished. Also included are two letters from Meic Stephens, Welsh Arts Council, 31 December 1970 and 18 February 1971, concerning 'Acclamation' (pasted in inside the front cover and on f. 15 respectively). A copy of Dom Julian Stonor, Six Welsh Martyrs (London: Salesian Press, 1961) has been pasted in inside the back cover.

Poems, articles &c.

A notebook, 1970-[?1972], in the hand of Raymond Garlick containing manuscript drafts of articles and a letter, 1970-[?1972] (ff. 1-18, 30-35) and some seven poems, dated January-March 1971 (ff. 19 verso-20, 22 verso-29).
Four of the poems were published in Poetry Wales and were included in Raymond Garlick, A Sense of Time: Poems and Antipoems 1969-1972 (Llandysul, 1972); while 'Dial-a-Panegyric' (ff. 22 verso-23) was submitted to the Welsh Arts Council's Dial-a-Poem scheme. The articles are 'A Short Walk in the Desert' (ff. 1-9), published in Planet, 4 (February/March 1971), 28-33, and 'Contempt' (ff. 30-35), published, in Welsh, as 'Dirmyg' in Barn, 112 (February 1972), 90-91, and reviews of Donald Attwater, A Cell of Good Living: The Life, Works and Opinions of Eric Gill (1969) (ff. 9 verso-13), published in The Anglo-Welsh Review, 19 (Spring 1971), 300-302, and of Brynmor Jones, A Bibliography of Anglo-Welsh Literature 1900-1965 (ff. 13 verso-17), published in Poetry Wales, 6.3 (Winter 1970), 56-59. The volume also includes a list of his poems published since 1968 (ff. 18 verso-19). A cutting of Garlick's letter published in the Welsh Nation, November 1970 (f. 17 verso) and a typescript of 'Dial-a-Panegyric' (f. 22 verso) have been pasted into the volume.

A Sense of Time

Corrected galley proofs, [1972], of Raymond Garlick, A Sense of Time: Poems and Antipoems, 1969-1972 (Llandysul, 1972).
The volume contains minor emendations in the hand of the author. Five verses for the poem 'Acclamation' have been crossed through (f. 21) and are omitted from the published volume.

Poems

A notebook in the hand of Raymond Garlick containing drafts of thirteen poems, dated April 1972-July 1973.
Eleven of the poems were published in the Anglo-Welsh Review, Poetry Wales and Planet; the remaining two were contributed to the Welsh Arts Council's Dial-a-Poem scheme. The poems were all collected in Raymond Garlick, Incense: Poems 1972-1975 (Llandysul, 1976). A single verse of an unfinished poem is on f. 13; it is crossed out and is apparently unpublished.

Poems, articles &c.

A notebook, 1973-1974, in the hand of Raymond Garlick containing manuscript and typescript drafts of sixteen poems, dated July 1973-May 1974 (ff. 3-33 (rectos only), 40 verso, 41 verso), and of articles and letters (ff. 2, 33 verso-62 (text mostly on rectos)).
Typescript drafts of six of the poems have been pasted in on ff. 14, 15, 16, 19, 21, 23, 26, 32, 33. Some of the poems were published in Poetry Wales and elsewhere; twelve were collected in Raymond Garlick, Incense: Poems 1972-1975 (Llandysul, 1976); the remaining four are apparently unpublished. Also included in the volume are drafts of his articles 'The Shapes of Thoughts', published in Poetry Wales, 9.2 (Autumn 1973), 40-48 (ff. 46 verso, 47 verso-51), and 'The Two Literatures of Wales', published in Paedwizer nei Wales (= It Beaken: Tydskrift fan de Fryske Akademy, 36.1/2 (1974)), pp. 26-29 (ff. 42 verso, 43 verso-45); a lecture entitled 'Children's Books with a Welsh Setting', given at Aberystwyth, September 1973 (ff. 51 verso-58 passim); an introduction for a brochure on Trinity College, Carmarthen, 1974 (ff. 38 verso-39 verso); drafts of five letters concerning the Welsh language campaign and the courts (ff. 2, 33 verso-35 verso (versos only), 59 verso, 60 verso-62) and R. S. Thomas (ff. 36 verso, 37 verso), June 1973-May 1974; and a list of his poems written 'Since A Sense of Time', giving, where appropriate, details of publication (f. 62 verso, inside back cover).

Poems

A volume in the hand of Raymond Garlick containing manuscript drafts of five poems, dated September-November 1974, all of which were included in Raymond Garlick, Incense: Poems 1972-1975 (Llandysul, 1976).

Poems

Holograph first drafts of fourteen poems by Raymond Garlick, 1975-[1990], comprising 'Adam in Eden', [?1975] (ff. 1-2; f. 2 is a corrected typescript), 'Ebb Tide', 19-21 October 1975 (f. 3), 'The Art Lesson', 17-18 December 1975 (f. 4), 'Where?', 5-7 January 1976 (f. 5), 'Portrait of a Young Dog as an Artist', [1975x1978] (ff. 6-8), 'Epigrams', [1975x1978] (f. 9), 'The Hottentot Fig', [24 March 1989] (ff. 10-11), 'The Comforters', [17 April 1989] (ff. 12-13), 'The Heiress', [21-22 April 1989] (ff. 14-15), 'Fellow Travellers', 28 July 1989 (ff. 16-17), 'Book Review' (first stanza only), [1 August 1989] (f. 18), 'The Odyssey Continues' (first two stanzas only), [?28 August 1989] (f. 19), 'The Exile', [?June 1990] (f. 20), and 'In the Jungle', [?June 1990] (f. 21).
'Adam in Eden' was published in Incense: Poems 1972-1975 (Llandysul, 1976); 'Portrait of a Young Dog as an Artist' was published in Planet, 41 (June 1978), 29; 'Ebb Tide', 'The Art Lesson' and 'Where?' were published in Collected Poems 1946-1986 (Llandysul, 1987); 'Epigrams' is apparently unpublished. The eight later poems (ff. 11-21) all appeared in Travel Notes: New Poems (Llandysul, 1992). Also included is a typescript by the author, listing the contents; the order given has now been superseded (f. 22).

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