Ffeil / File AK/1 - Letters to Tony Curtis

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AK/1

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Letters to Tony Curtis

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  • 1959-1996 (Creation)

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1 large box (0.029 mᶟ)

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Letters and cards, 1959-1996 and undated, to Tony Curtis, the contents largely involving discussion of Tony Curtis's literary work and responses to the same, the publication of Curtis's literary work or its inclusion within literary magazines and poetic anthologies, and references to literary events attended/to be attended.
Correspondents include: poet and physican Dannie Abse; poet and writer Alison Bielski; poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator Gillian Clarke; Anglo-Welsh poet and translator Tony Conran; painter and teacher Jack Crabtree; poet Christine Evans; Anglo-Welsh poet, editor, lecturer and critic Raymond Garlick; poet, critic, teacher and broadcaster Jeremy Hooker; Anglo-Welsh poet, writer and historian Glyn Jones; Anglo-Welsh poet, writer, lecturer and broadcaster Nigel Jenkins; sculptor, artist and writer Jonah Jones; poet, writer, critic and editor Roland Mathias; poet, writer and translator Robert Minhinnick; poet, writer and lecturer Leslie Norris; poet, publisher and critic Sally Roberts Jones; editor, journalist, translator and poet Meic Stephens; poet and writer Anne Stevenson; poet and Anglican priest R. S. Thomas; poet Chris Torrance; Anglo-Welsh poet and writer John Tripp; landscape painter Kyffin Williams; Poetry Wales Press; Christopher Davies Publishers; the Anglo-Welsh Review; Faber & Faber publishers; and Gomer Press.

Please note that, due to the volume of correspondents, names are not indexed. For access to full range of correspondents, it is recommended that this section of the archive is requested for viewing.

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Accruals

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Correspondents arranged alphabetically by surname. Name of each correspondent marked on 'post-it' note attached to letter(s) (where correspondence is voluminous, letters kept in marked envelopes). Where correspondent's surname is not apparent or is illegible, letters are kept separately.
Individual sequences of letters arranged chronologically, where dated; undated correspondence kept at rear of sequences of dated correspondence.

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  • English

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Letters from John and Joan Digby: One letter and one card extensively torn and in an extremely fragile state (kept in marked envelope).

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Photographs of Tony Curtis in Ireland (see letter to Curtis from Marguerite/Marjorie Simon, 26 December 1976) and with Richard and LaRayne Wahlstrom (see letter to Curtis from Richard and LeRayne Wahlstrom,14 November 1978) have been transferred to the National Library of Wales's Photographic Department, where they may be accessed on request:
Location: Photo book 7004
Acquisition number: 995064907102419

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  • Text: Tony Curtis Papers (August 2002 papers) (Box 15) AK/1