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- 1940-1972 (Creation)
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42 ff.
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The file comprises manuscript drafts of letters to persons identified by Harman Grisewood as 'Welsh correspondents & acquaintances', including Alun Jones, [Leonard] Twiston-Davies, [Rhydwen] Wiliams, T. H. Parry-Williams and Jonah Jones. Amongst the subjects discussed or referred to are The Anathemata ('I'm working on a book that I suppose may be finished some time but heaven knows when---', 1944); early British and Welsh history; Christopher Dawson [1970]; a commentary by Alun Jones on 'these pieces of mine' (the sleeve notes for the record in the 'Poets of Wales' series of David Jones reading selections of his work?); and the situation of the arts in modern civilization (1972); the inscription made by him and presented to Sir Thomas Parry-Williams by the Hon. Society of Cymmrodorion in 1967; a short questionnaire concerning Wales and the First World War (see The London Welshman, December 1964, pp. 3-4); and the 'Letter from David Jones' published in Poetry Wales, David Jones Special Number, vol. 8, no. 3 (Winter 1972), pp. 5-9. There are a number of drafts of a letter to Gwynfor Evans congratulating him on his electoral victory at Carmarthen in 1966.
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Formerly Group A II/28
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Preferred citation: CF1/12
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- Dawson, Christopher, 1889-1970 (Subject)
- Davies, Leonard Twiston, Sir, 1894-1953 (Subject)
- Jones, Alun R. (Alun Richard) (Subject)
- Williams, Rhydwen (Subject)
- Jones, Jonah (Subject)
- Parry-Williams, T. H. (Thomas Herbert), Sir, 1887-1975 (Subject)
- Evans, Gwynfor (Subject)