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David Jones letters to Valerie Wynne-Williams

  • NLW MS 24167i-iiiE.
  • File
  • 1958-1974

One hundred and twenty-four autograph letters, 1959-1974, from painter-poet David ('Dafydd') Jones, all addressed to Valerie ('Elri') Wynne-Williams (née Price), with the exception of two to her husband Michael ('Mihangel') (ff. 54, 112-113) and one to them both (ff. 55-56), discussing a variety of topics including his, and her, health and living conditions, his work, his friends, the Welsh language and Welsh history and politics. Some letters are illustrated with coloured pencil, pen and ink drawings, mainly of animals and flowers (ff. 8, 32, 33, 45 verso, 46 verso-47, 48 verso, 76, 103, 104 verso, 152), inscriptions (ff. 9, 34, 124 verso, 128, 136 verso) and sketch maps of Harrow (ff. 143, 144).
There are references throughout to friends and correspondents including Saunders Lewis (ff. 2-11 passim, 42-188 passim), Harman Grisewood (ff. 4-192 verso passim), René Hague (ff. 42 verso-187 passim), David Blamires (ff. 160, 186, 190 verso, 192), Louis Bonnerot (ff. 123, 186 verso), Tom Burns (ff. 13, 14 verso, 48, 64 verso, 68 verso, 77, 85 verso, 86 verso, 89 verso, 110, 116, 140 recto-verso, 188 verso), Douglas Cleverdon (ff. 68 verso, 160 verso, 162, 163 verso, 187), Aneirin Talfan Davies (ff. 9 verso, 11, 14 verso, 16, 33 verso, 63 verso, 71 verso, 123, 124, 128, 129 verso, 154 verso, 162), Clarissa Eden (f. 107 verso), T. S. Eliot (ff. 51 recto-verso, 62 verso, 67 verso, 69 verso, 71, 73, 74, 85), Gwynfor Evans (ff. 29 verso, 31, 131-192 verso passim), Illtud Evans (f. 6, 11 recto-verso, 37, 46 verso, 57, 61), Arthur Giardelli (ff. 150, 151 verso, 171 verso, 186), Eric Gill (ff. 45 verso, 66, 67 verso, 68 verso, 121), Stanley Honeyman (ff. 84, 140, 154 verso, 159 verso), Morag Owen (ff. 59, 98, 140), Catherine Rousseau (née Ivainer) (ff. 36 verso-127 passim), Stephen Spender (ff. 81 verso-82, 83 verso, 91), Bill Stevenson (f. 158 verso) and Helen Sutherland (ff. 68, 97 verso, 157). There are also occasional references to Desmond Chute (f. 120 verso), Idris Foster (ff. 60 verso, 63 verso), Philip Jones Griffiths (ff. 1, 131), David Lloyd George (ff. 108 verso-109, 127 verso), Megan Lloyd George (ff. 18 verso, 20, 21-22), J. D. Innes (f. 49 verso), Augustus John (f. 85 verso), Alun Oldfield-Davies (ff. 37, 77), Tristram Powell (ff. 142 recto-verso, 144), Caradog Prichard (ff. 19 verso, 77, 108), Kathleen Raine (f. 59 verso), Keidrych Rhys (ff. 6 verso, 8, 9, 16, 30 verso, 36 verso), Meic Stephens (ff. 171, 175), Vernon Watkins (ff. 47, 128 verso), D. J. Williams (f. 106 recto-verso), Kyffin Williams (ff. 49, 63, 77) and R. O. F. Wynne and his family (ff. 61, 62, 63, 64 verso, 67 verso, 81, 94 verso, 96 verso¸ 98, 130 verso), and brief reminiscences of his experiences during the First World War (ff. 70 recto-verso, 76, 79 recto-verso, 108 verso-109, 130 recto-verso, 151 verso, 164). Also included is a copy of his letter, dated 10 August 1959, to Megan Lloyd George (f. 21; for her reply see NLW, David Jones (Artist and Writer) Papers CT3/3, f. 247); cuttings of letters to the Times by David Jones, Valerie Price and others, 1958 (ff. 193-196); and a copy of a 1959 photograph of the two by Philip Jones Griffiths (f. 197). The letter of 23 September 1973 (ff. 178-179 verso) was published under the title 'Yr Iaith' in Planet, 21 (January 1974), 3-5.

Jones, David, 1895-1974

Correspondence,

Correspondence between John Legonna, figures in the Welsh, Breton and Celtic nationalist, socialist and literary communities, contributors and subscribers to 'Cilmeri', publishers, periodicals, banks, family and friends, concerning a wide range of political, literary and personal matters, especially the production and content of 'Cilmeri' and other publications, the New Nation Group, Plaid Cymru, Welsh republican groups, nationalist and socialist movements in Wales and other Celtic countries, the Celtic League and pan-Celtic politics, and Legonna's personal problems and arrangements at the end of his life, including his intended writing projects, together with articles, poems and reviews intended for publication in 'Cilmeri', including a curriculum vitae of Olier Mordrel, and also related press cuttings and lists of books available from Club Leabhar (the Highland Book Club).

Correspondence relating to closure of the Anglo-Welsh Review

Correspondence, 1981-2000, mainly relating to reviews and articles intended for publication in the Anglo-Welsh Review, and to the Welsh Arts Council’s withdrawal of funding in 1987 and subsequent closure of the publication in 1988. The file includes letters to Greg Hill and others from Arthur Giardelli (3); Bim Giardelli (1); Glyn Jones (1); Anne Stevenson (3); Tony Conran (2); Jeremy Hooker (9); Desmond Slay (1); Meic Stephens (4); Freda Walters (3); Tony Curtis (1); John Davies (1); Raymond Garlick (2); Peter Dale (1); David Annwn (1); Ann Hallam (1); Tony Bianchi (1); Gillian Clarke (1); and Steve Griffiths (1). Also enclosed are cuttings of obituaries for the writer and historian Gwyn Jones, written by Desmond Slay and Meic Stephens respectively (1999); and a copy of a cutting from the Western Mail, reporting on the closure of the Anglo-Welsh Review and the launch of the New Welsh Review (1987).

Correspondence: prose,

Correspondence, mostly concerning articles, stories and poems submitted for The Anglo-Welsh Review, including letters from Steve Griffiths (2); A. G. Prys-Jones; Greg Hill; Ronald Lowe; Mike Jenkins; John Pikoulis (5); Sylvia Kantaris (2); Ruth Bidgood (4); Pauline Stainer (2); William Cooke; John Tripp; William Sherman; Gwyn O. Jones (3); Jennifer Drake-Brockman (4); Alun Llewellyn (4); Jacqueline Banerjee (5); Gweno Lewis; Meic Stephens; Chris O'Neill (2); Edward Larrissy; Anthony Conran; Raymond Garlick (2); D. Graham Jenkins (2); Stephen Tunnicliffe; Edward Levy (6); Belinda Humfrey (3); Richard Poole (2); Roland Mathias; Roger Stephens Jones; Colin Wilcockson (3); Susanne M. Dumbleton; Raymond J. Cormier (3); Hugh McKinley; Edward Neill; Ruth Pryor (2); Angela G. Dorenkamp; Ned Thomas; H. Morgan Waidson (4); Linden Peach; Peter Slater; Patrick Thomas (2); Dominic J. Hart (2); Richard A. Davies (3); Frederick Grice (6); Frances Meredith (2); Robert Nisbet; Graham Jones (3); and Cecil Price. The file also includes photocopies of a letter by W. H. Davies, 1907, and an editorial from Welsh Outlook, 1917. Some letters are addressed to Roland Mathias with copies of replies by him.

Correspondence and statements,

Correspondence, 1976-1984, pertaining to The Anglo-Welsh Review, including draft letters by Gillian Clarke and letters from the Directors Gareth and Freda Walters; Sandra Anstey; Meic Stephens (13); Peter Finch; A.J. Heward Rees (2); and Greg Hill. The file also includes statements of income and expenditure and balance sheets of the Dock Leaves Press and The Anglo-Welsh Review, 1963-1974, contents pages, lists of contributors, and fees for contributors.

Correspondence: 1989-1991,

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.

Correspondence: 1986-1990,

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.

Kantaris, Sylvia.

Correspondence: 1982-1986,

Includes letters from A. G. Prys-Jones (6, including poems); Harriet Zinnes (including poems); Roger Conover (3); Talat Halman; Michael J. Collins (3); Joseph Clancy (including a poem); Jean Earle (3); Sylvia Kantaris (4); Angela Morton (14, including poems); Greg Hill (2); Lesley Grant-Adamson (7); Roger Garfitt; Anne Stevenson (10, including a poem); Paul Hyland (7); Jane A. Wight; Tom Rawling (2); Irene E. Thomas (11); Meic Stephens (2); Jeremy Hooker (5); Huw Jones; Meredydd Evans; Michael Horovitz (11); Fay Godwin (4); Roland Mathias (3); Joyce Herbert; Berenice Moore (5); Thomas Owen Clancy (4, including a poem); R. S. Thomas (4); Donald Swann (3); Tony Curtis (2); Christine Evans (7, including poems); Glenda Beagan (5, including a poem); Sue Moules (12); John Tripp; John Latham (3); Carole Satyamurti (2); Gloria Evans Davies (2, enclosing poems); Gwyn Parry (5); and Chris Bendon (2).

Prys-Jones, A. G. (Arthur Glyn)

Correspondence : S,

Includes letters from Norman Schwenk (7); Ceri Sherlock (2); Mercer Simpson (16); Ian Skidmore (2); Arthur Smith (2); Dai Smith; and Meic Stephens (24).

Correspondence : S,

Includes letters from Derek Savage (97), Howard Sergeant (9), Jon Silkin (8), Alan Sillitoe (4), Mercer Simpson (17), Dai Smith (5), Elan Closs Stephens (5), Meic Stephens (71), and Julian Symons (13).

Correspondence : 1996

Includes letters from Ruth Bidgood (4); Sam Adams (6); Marion Löffler (2); Robert Steel; Meic Stephens (2); Nigel Jenkins (including a typescript copy of his poem 'Porth Cwyfan (for Roland Mathias)'); Gerald Clifton; John Davies (2); Raymond Garlick (2); Jeremy Hooker; Leslie Norris (2); John Pikoulis; and Gillian Clarke (2).

Bidgood, Ruth

Correspondence : 1995

Includes letters from Richard Poole (3); Sam Adams (5); Raymond Garlick (7); Jeremy Hooker (including a typescript copy of his article, 'Henry Vaughan: image-maker, iconoclast'); Ruth Bidgood (4); Meic Stephens (2); Cliff James (2); and Gloria Evans Davies. The file also contains a small bundle of letters addressed to Molly Mathias.

Poole, Richard, 1945-

Correspondence : 1990

Includes letters from Leslie Norris (2); Ruth Bidgood (3); Meic Stephens (3); Raymond Garlick (5); Dora Polk (2); Gillian Clarke; Gwyn O. Jones; Nigel Jenkins; Jeremy Hooker (2); and John Davies (2).

Norris, Leslie, 1921-2006

Correspondence : 1986

Includes letters from John Davies (5); R. Gerallt Jones; Raymond Garlick (6); Meic Stephens (12, including copies of letters from Meic Stephens to Ceri George and R. Brinley Jones); Anthony Conran (3); Jeremy Hooker (3); Robert Minhinnick; Bruce J. James (6); Ruth Bidgood (5); Nigel Jenkins (3); Gerard Casey; Jon Dressel; Kay Harris (3); Leslie Norris (including a copy of the poem 'The dark months'); Glyn Jones (5); Elwyn Davies; Emyr Humphreys; Brian Keeble; Sam Adams (2); A. G. Prys-Jones; and Cecil Price.

Davies, John, 1944-

Correspondence : 1984

Includes letters from A. G. Prys-Jones (7); Meic Stephens (25); Alun Llewellyn (3); Robert Minhinnick (2); Ruth Bidgood (6); David Harries; Sally Roberts Jones (4); Nigel Jenkins (2); Dannie Abse (2); Joseph Clancy (3); Glyn Jones (3); Leslie Norris; Elwyn Davies (2); Gillian Clarke (3); Greg Hill (4); Raymond Garlick (2); Cary Archard (2); John Davies; and Tony Bianchi (2).

Prys-Jones, A. G. (Arthur Glyn)

Correspondence : 1983

Includes letters from Anthony Conran; Meic Stephens (13); Gillian Clarke (2); A. G. Prys-Jones (6); Gwyn Jones (4); Nigel Jenkins (8); Cary Archard; Emyr Humphreys (2); Raymond Garlick (13); Glyn Jones (3); Dai Smith (3); Jeremy Hooker; Hamish M. Brown; Peter Finch (3); Duncan Bush (2); Deian Hopkin (2); Ray Howard-Jones; Alan Perry (2); Brian Howells; John Davies; Wynn Thomas; and Leslie Norris (addressed to Meic Stephens, containing amendments to the entry on Leslie Norris for the Companion to the literature of Wales).

Conran, Anthony

Correspondence : 1982

Includes letters from Sally Roberts Jones (5); John Davies (5); Ruth Bidgood (9); G. O. Jones; Glyn Jones (5); A. G. Prys-Jones (3); Meic Stephens (18, including a copy of a letter to R. Geraint Gruffydd); Tony Curtis (3); Douglas Bassett (5); Prys Morgan; Gerard Casey (4); Emyr Humphreys (2); Raymond Garlick (4); J. P. Ward (2); John Osmond (2); Walford Davies (5); Greg Hill (3); Peter Finch; Leslie Norris (2); Joseph Clancy; Sam Adams (3); Dora Polk; Nigel Jenkins (4); Gwyn Jones (2); Gillian Clarke (2); Kay Harris; and Dai Smith (2).

Jones, Sally Roberts

Correspondence : 1981

Includes letters from John Pikoulis; Raymond Garlick (4); Gillian Clarke (2); Cary Archard (3); Meic Stephens (8); Ronald Lowe; Jeremy Hooker (4); A. G. Prys-Jones (4); Glyn Jones (4); J. P. Ward; John Davies (3); Ruth Bidgood (9); Nigel Jenkins; Jon Dressel; Ray Howard-Jones (2); and Sally Roberts Jones.

Pikoulis, John, 1941-

Correspondence : 1980

Includes letters from Jennie Eirian Davies (2); Alun Llewellyn; Tony Bianchi (2); Brian Howells (4); Gillian Clarke (6); Ruth Bidgood (5); Dora Polk (3); Sally Roberts Jones (7); Meic Stephens (17); Jon Dressel (3); Glyn Jones (2); John Tripp; Selyf Roberts (2); John Davies (5); Belinda Humfrey (2); Jeremy Hooker (4); Peter Elfed Lewis (2); Robert Morgan; Moira Dearnley (2); Sam Adams (2); J. P. Ward; John Rowlands (3); Emyr Humphreys; Désirée Hirst; Leonard Clark (2); and Clive Betts.

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