File CF1/4 - Letters about published work

The file comprises manuscript drafts of letters from David Jones, many of which concern his published works. The addressees, which include Peter Orr and Sister Mary Ursula, are listed on the wrapper. There are drafts of letters concerning In Parenthesis, The Anathemata, Epoch and Artist and the 'fragments' published in The Sleeping Lord and other fragments. Other subjects include lettering for the cover of the Rutgers edition of Poetry and Prayer by Father Thomas Noon; biographical details (principally concerning the period 1921-1934); pictures by David Jones referred to in a letter from a Mr Witaker; Gwyn Williams's translations of Welsh poetry; Owen Glendower by J. C. Powys; together with an essay by Jeremy Hooker on The Anathemata and an article by him in the Winter 1970 number (vol. 6, no. 3) of Poetry Wales (there are drafts of four letters to Jeremy Hooker, one dated 20 October 1970) and suggestions that David Jones contribute an article to New Blackfriars on the general attitude implicit in his work and explicit in his occasional essays, and another to Encounter about Eric Gill (1966).