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Correspondence, together with some tracts, petitions, press releases and cuttings, and administrative and financial documents, together with some minutes of Annual General Meetings and copies of minutes of branch meetings, 1962-1999. Correspondents include Clive Betts, Zonia Bowen, Noëlle Davies, Noel Dempsey, Per Denez, Peter Berresford Ellis, Gwynfor Evans, Julian Cayo Evans, Garret FitzGerald, Yann Fouere, Nick Griffin, Neven Henaff, Alan Heusaff, John Jenkins, John Legonna, Tomas Ó Canainn, Padraig Ó Snodaigh, Meic Stephens, Alan Stivell, Dafydd Elis Thomas, Dafydd Wigley and Jac L. Williams. The matters discussed include the aims of the League, its policies and campaigns, the Celtic countries and cultures, linguistic minorities, political movements and ideas, and the compilation, publication and distribution of Carn. There are also articles submitted for Carn, together with notes, as well as letters and petitions to governments and international bodies. In addition, there are copies, drafts and notes of letters written by Heusaff and Moffatt, and letters and other documents forwarded by branch secretaries relating to matters of particular concern.

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.

A typescript copy, [1962]-1979, of Saunders Lewis's Welsh play 'Excelsior', first published Swansea, 1980, with corrections in the author's hand (ff. 1-56); together with correspondence, 1980, in English and Welsh, of the publisher Christopher Davies, regarding its publication in view of the allegation, when broadcast in 1962, that it libelled the Rev. Llywelyn Williams, MP (ff. 57-81).
The typescript consists of pages from the original script, [1962], transmitted on BBC TV on St David's Day 1962 (ff. 5-16, 20-21, 42-51), interspersed with revised sections, [1979], for an abortive stage version (ff. 17-19, 22-41, 52-56), and the new Preface for the published volume, April 1980 (ff. 2-4). The correspondence consists of nineteen letters, April-October 1980, including copies and drafts, mostly between Saunders Lewis, Christopher Davies, Sir Alun Talfan Davies and Glyndwr Williams, brother of Llywelyn Williams. A cutting of Clive Betts' article, 'Saunders Lewis publishes play BBC abandoned' (Western Mail, 1 December 1980, p. 9), is on f. 82. The 1962 and 1980 versions of the play both appear in Dramâu Saunders Lewis: Y Casgliad Cyflawn, Cyfrol 2, ed. by Ioan M. Williams (Cardiff, 2000), pp. 273-414.

Yn cynnwys llythyrau oddi wrth/Includes letters from: Humphrey Atkins AS/MP; Clive Betts; James Callaghan; Ifor Davies AS/MP; Nicholas Edwards; Tom Ellis AS/MP; Meredydd Evans; Peter Hughes Griffiths; Ian Grist; Gwerfyl Pierce Jones; R. Gerallt Jones; Leopold Kohr; Derec Llwyd Morgan; Jan Morris (3); Dewi Watkin Powell; Dafydd Elis Thomas.