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The file includes manuscript and typescript copies of poems by John Ormond, 1969x1975, which appear to have been presented as gifts to Glyn Jones; copies of the script, 'Laughter before nightfall (or The man who rubbed the rainbow)', presented by Yr Academi Gymreig; a tribute to Graham Sutherland by John Ormond, 1980; press cuttings of obituaries of John Ormond, 1990, and copies of tributes by Glyn Jones and Dai Smith, 1990.

Letters to Sam Adams from John Ormond (4) concerning personal matters, together with copies of two poems by Ormond, and a copy of a BBC transcript of his interview with R.S. Thomas, with a manuscript review of the broadcast interview in the hand of Adams.

Worked typescript and autograph drafts of about a third of the poems collected in 'Requiem and Celebration' (Swansea 1969). On f. 42 is an unidentified fragment, related to another on the verso of f. 19. Formerly Welsh Arts Council MS 46.

Catalogues, together with some invitations to private viewings, cards and papers, relating to various one-man exhibitions of Kyffin Williams's work, 1954-2005, including those held at the Tegfryn Gallery, Menai Bridge; Oriel Môn, Llangefni; National Library of Wales; Howard Roberts Gallery, and the Albany Gallery, Cardiff; P. & D. Colnaghi, Leicester Galleries, and the Thackeray Gallery, London. A corrected typescript, [?1981], of an introduction by John Ormond to an exhibition of Kyffin Williams's work at the National Library of Wales, 1981, together with a typescript review, entitled 'Natural painter of all things Welsh', of his exhibition in the Howard Roberts Gallery, 1968, published in The Times, 16 October 1968, are included amongst the papers.