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- 1929-1980. (Creation)
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162 ff. Guarded and filed.
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Scope and content
Some hundred letters, 1929-80 (correspondents N-W), to Ceri and Frances Richards, many of them concerned with their work as artists. The correspondents include John Ormond (11) [?1940s]-1976 (with typescript and autograph drafts and fair copies of poems, and typescript text of a radio broadcast by him, 1954, entitled 'Rest and Unrest: the Art of Ceri Richards'), Victor Pasmore (1) 1969, Peter Pears (8) [1960s-70s], Sir John Rothenstein (2) 1958-68, Roberto Sanesi (12) 1961-76, Stephen Spender (2) 1962, Graham Sutherland (3) [?1941]-56, Vernon Watkins (10) 1960-7 (see note 544, below), with one autograph and one typescript poem.
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Conditions governing access
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions noted on the 'Modern papers - data protection' form issued with their Readers' Tickets.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
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English
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Finding aids
The contents of NLW MSS 22853-23691 are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 9 (Aberystwyth, 2003).
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23008E
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Name access points
- Richards, Ceri, 1903-1971 (Subject)
- Ormond, John, 1923-1990 -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Pears, Peter, Sir -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Sanesi, Roberto, 1930- -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Ormond, John, 1923-1990. (Subject)
- Pasmore, Victor, 1908-1998 (Subject)
- Pears, Peter, Sir. (Subject)
- Rothenstein, John, Sir, 1901-1992 (Subject)
- Sanesi, Roberto, 1930- (Subject)
- Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995 (Subject)
- Sutherland, Graham Vivian, 1903-1980 (Subject)
- Watkins, Vernon Phillips, 1906-1967 -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Watkins, Vernon Phillips, 1906-1967 (Subject)