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Papers, 1953-[2006], relating to Dylan Thomas known as the Under Milk Wood group, including scripts of the radio play, [1953]-1954; papers, [1953]-1986, relating to the publication of the work, with the original score, [1953], of the incidental music composed by Daniel Jones; correspondence, 1953-1958, including an unpublished letter, 1953, from Dylan Thomas to his literary agent; programmes, 1954-2005, of stage productions of works by Dylan Thomas, mainly 'Under Milk Wood'; translations and adaptations of the work, [1958]-2003; and papers, 1960-[2006], relating to the film production, audio recording, and animated film of 'Under Milk Wood'.

Additional papers, 1927-2006, relating to Dylan Thomas known as the Dylan Thomas Secondary Manuscripts, mainly comprising correspondence, articles, publications, and research papers by various authors among them Paul Ferris, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Daniel Jones, Glyn Jones, Ralph Maud, Wynford Vaughan Thomas, and Vernon Watkins; and including papers relating to the publication of the limited edition of Letter to Loren (Swansea, 1993).

Additional papers, 1935-2007, relating to Dylan Thomas known as the Dylan Thomas Family Letters, including autograph letters from Dylan to Charles Fisher, [1935]-1947; the letters and papers of his wife, Caitlin, [1940]-1998, among them a substantial group of unpublished autograph letters, 1947-1984, their children, Llewelyn, Aeronwy and Colm, [1954]-2007, Dylan's parents, D. J. and Florence Thomas, 1935-1957, and Caitlin's mother, Yvonne Macnamara, [1957]; and correspondence, 1954-1955, relating to the proposed publication of the notebook poems.

Additional papers, [1925x2009], relating to Dylan Thomas known as the Dylan Thomas Prose Manuscripts, consisting of manuscript, typescript and printed copies of prose works by him; papers belonging to him, and an account of his death.

Additional papers, [1928x2010], relating to Dylan Thomas known as the Dylan Thomas Poetry Manuscripts, mainly consisting of autograph drafts and worksheets, [1928x2010], of poems by Dylan Thomas, including unpublished juvenilia, 'Elegy', 'In Country Heaven', 'Poem on his Birthday', 'There was a saviour', and 'Letter to Loren'; typescript copies, [1937x1990], including two poems published in The map of love (London, 1939); printed proofs, [1939]-1953, of various poems; and manuscript and typescript poems, [1930x1950], mostly in Daniel Jones's hand, on which they both appear to have collaborated.

Additional papers, [1926x2011], relating to Dylan Thomas consisting of unpublished letters by him to various recipients, [1926x2011], and material, 1954-1955, relating to the Dylan Thomas memorial issue of Dock leaves.

A small group of papers, 1939-[2013], relating to Dylan Thomas and his third book, a volume of poetry and prose entitled The map of love (London, 1939), comprising four autograph letters, March-August 1939, from the author to the publishers, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd; carbon copies of letters, 1939, from the editorial, production, and publicity departments at J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd; photocopies, [1990x2013], of most of the aforementioned letters; and a proof copy and file copy of the published work, the latter containing manuscript amendments and additions in an unidentified hand.

An autograph letter, [June or July 1938], from Dylan Thomas to Charles Fisher in which he refers to the latter's visit, The death of the king's canary, and a fight in Swansea.

Three loose printed pages from Life and letters today, vol. XVI, no. 7, (Spring, 1937), pp. 65-70, containing the story 'A prospect of the sea' by Dylan Thomas. Eight words in the first paragraph have been marked, in an unidentified hand, for omission.

Early pencil draft, dated Nov[ember] [19]44, by Dylan Thomas of the poem 'A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London', written on the back endpaper and paste-down of a copy of the anthology New Road 1944, ed. A. Comfort and J. Bayliss (London, 1944), containing two of his poems, 'Among those killed in the Dawn Raid was a Man aged One Hundred' and 'The Marriage of a Virgin'. The poem was first published in New Republic, vol. 112, no. 20, (May, 1945), and subsequently in Deaths and entrances (London, 1946). The letters 'Dy' are inscribed beneath the draft, together with a small doodle of a creature. Also included are two typescript copies, [1990x2010], (3 ff.), of 'A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London', being transcripts of the pencil draft.

Bound typescript copy, 1995, of the lecture 'Who killed Dylan Thomas?' delivered by the Dylan Thomas Fellow, Adrian Mitchell, at Tŷ Llên, Swansea, as part of the Dylan Thomas Month during the UK Year of Literature; signed by the author.

Programmes, 1966-1970, of productions of 'Adventures in the skin trade', the dramatisation by Andrew Sinclair of Dylan Thomas's unfinished novel.

Letters, [1954x1958] and 1980-2004, from Aeronwy Thomas; among the recipients are Daniel and Irene Jones, Jeff Towns, Gilbert Bennett, and Llewelyn Thomas (copy). Also included are press cuttings, 1970-2007, relating to Aeronwy Thomas.

Typescript, (2 pp.), signed by Alan Clodd, headed 'Sleeve-notes for Dylan Thomas records', and inscribed "written for Phillips Records re-issue of Dylan Thomas readings. May 1969. Alan Clodd".

Undated holograph letter, [April 1937], by Dylan Thomas to Alban [Levy], written in black ink (recto side only) and sent from Bishopston, in reply to his letter following DT's first radio broadcast, 'Life and the Modern Poet'. DT hopes to visit Cardiff soon and read his new poems to Alban, Mervyn and Stella.

Script, 2004, (20 pp.), of a play by Andrew Dolan, entitled 'Dylan Thomas: here I am mouthing away', together with a covering letter from the author to Jeff Towns.

Papers, [1994]-2004, relating to Andrew Sinclair, including a photocopy of his book, In love and anger (London, 1994); page proofs of Dylan the bard (London, 1999); scripts of his proposed documentary 'Dylan the bard', [1999], the drama documentary 'Dylan on Dylan', [2002], and his stage adaptation of 'Adventures in the skin trade', 2003; together with correspondence, 1998-2004.

Typescript copy, [1980x1982], (10 pp.), of Andrews Wanning's recollections of Dylan Thomas's visits to Cambridge in 1937 to address the Nashe Society entitled, 'Dylan Thomas at Cambridge'.

Two cels and a background drawing, together with a folded publicity brochure, [1992], for the animated film version of 'Under Milk Wood', produced by Siriol Productions for S4C, BBC, and Onward Production (1992).

Typescript, [1964x1965], of 'The early prose of Dylan Thomas' by Annis Pratt. This version appears to be a copy of her doctoral dissertation and differs slightly from the work published as Dylan Thomas's early prose: a study in creative mythology (Pittsburgh, 1970). In addition, the file contains four related letters, 1964-1965, three from Annis Pratt to Ralph Maud and a reply from the latter.