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Typescript drafts, 1935-1947, by Vernon Watkins of 'The Influences. A Masque' (see also NLW MS 22466E), including the text of the stage version performed at the Little Theatre, Swansea, July 1939 (ff. 154-170), later used for publication (see Vernon Watkins, The Influences (Hayes: Bran's Head Books, 1976)).

Autograph and typescript drafts, 1935-1967, of poems by Vernon Watkins, mostly published in The Ballad of the Mari Lwyd (1941), The Lady with the Unicorn (1948), Cypress and Acacia (1959), Affinities (1962), Fidelities (1968), Uncollected Poems (1969), I That Was Born in Wales (1976) and The Breaking of the Wave (1979).

Notebook containing drafts, 1934, of apparently unpublished poems by Vernon Watkins, with a note in his hand, 'Ramblings towards Poems' (f. 1).

Manuscript and typescript drafts by Vernon Watkins for poems published in Fidelities (1968).

Notebook containing drafts, 1934, of poems by Vernon Watkins, all apparently unpublished.

Notebook, 1933, containing drafts of apparently unpublished poem sequences by Vernon Watkins entitled 'The Harz Mountains'.

Autograph and typescript drafts, 1933-1966, by Vernon Watkins of verse translations from Greek, Italian and French poetry, all published in Selected Verse Translations (1977).

Autograph and typescript essays and lecture notes, [c. 1935]-[1966], on Wilfred Owen and his poetry.

Notebook, 1933, containing drafts of apparently unpublished poem sequences by Vernon Watkins entitled 'The Harz Mountains'.

Exercise book containing drafts, 1933, by Vernon Watkins of apparently unpublished poems entitled 'Barents' and 'Pulchritudo'.

Miscellaneous autograph and typescript drafts, 1931-1967, of shorter poems by Vernon Watkins, all apparently unpublished.

Exercise book containing Vernon Watkins's journal of travels in Belgium and Germany in 1931, together with draft poems, 1931-1936, all apparently unpublished.

Autograph and typescript drafts, 1930-1964 and undated, of shorter poems by Vernon Watkins, almost all apparently unpublished.
Two poems, 'Note towards a poem' (f. 74) and 'There is a pattern...' (f. 75) appeared in Poetry Wales, 12.4 (Spring 1977), 38, 43.

Autograph and typescript drafts, [1930s]-1966, of verse translations by Vernon Watkins from Italian and Spanish, apparently mainly unpublished. Extracts from Watkins's translation of Dante's Inferno (ff. 1-55) were broadcast by the BBC in 1966.

Autograph and typescript drafts, [1930s]-1967, of poems by Vernon Watkins, almost all apparently unpublished.
There are copies of both short and long poems, as well as fragments, including multiple drafts of 'The Birth to Destruction', 1937-1947 (ff. 6-17), 'The Moth', 1952-1966 (ff. 55-89, thirty-seven drafts), 'The Will', 1960-1961 (ff. 93-100), 'The Melodramatic', 1965-1967 (ff. 101-112), and 'The Fall of Sodom', [1960x1967] (ff. 285-300), and a number of apparently different poems on the theme of 'Taliesin', 1938 (ff. 18-33). 'The Measure Moves' (ff. 70 verso, 72 verso, 73 verso, 75 verso) and 'The Guest' (f. 223 verso) appeared in Fidelities (London, 1968), pp. 26, 96.

Autograph and typescript drafts, 1929-1932, of an unpublished collection of stories and verse produced by Vernon Watkins in collaboration with two friends from Cambridge, one of whom prepared the lino-cut illustrations. Also included is a verse fragment of a Fairy Comic Opera entitled 'Garden of Chimaera' (ff. 127-32).

Exercise book containing drafts by Vernon Watkins of two long poems entitled 'Youth Confined: Extracts from an Unfinished Poem', chiefly composed in 1928, and 'Fragments for a Humorous Poem', both apparently unpublished.

Exercise book containing a draft poem, 1928, by Vernon Watkins entitled 'Repton. An Epic', apparently unpublished.

Exercise book containing draft poems, 1927-1928, apparently unpublished, composed by Vernon Watkins for a sequence entitled 'The Prisoners'.

Exercise book containing draft poems, 1927, apparently unpublished, composed by Vernon Watkins during a stay in Rome, some being related to those in NLW MSS 22444B and 22459E.