Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1922, 1943 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
31 ff.
Some items guarded and some placed in melinex sleeves within ringed box at NLW.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Dylans Bookstore; Swansea; Purchase; March 2008; 004494244.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Four items, 1922, relating to Richard Hughes' play, 'The Sisters' Tragedy', comprising a letter, 24 June [1922], from Hughes to the critic and playwright Padraic Colum concerning the production of the play (f. 2), enclosing a copy of the first edition, signed and corrected by Hughes (ff. 3-20), and a printed sheet of reviews (f. 21); and a cutting from The Weekly Westminster Gazette, 10 June 1922, p. 15, containing a review of the play (f. 1).
Also included is a programme, December 1943, for a production at the Belasco Theatre, New York City, of 'The Innocent Voyage', the stage adaptation of Hughes' novel A High Wind in Jamaica (London, 1929) (ff. 22-31).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged chronologically at NLW.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions set out in information provided when applying for their Readers' Tickets, whereby the reader shall become responsible for compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply. Information regarding the ownership of Richard Hughes copyright can be found at http://tyler.hrc.utexas.edu/ (viewed January 2011).
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
A few folios fragile.
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Notes area
Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23978E.
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Access points
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Place access points
Name access points
- Hughes, Richard, 1900-1976. Innocent voyage (Subject)
- Hughes, Richard, 1900-1976. Sisters' Tragedy. (Subject)
- Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972 -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972. (Subject)
- Hughes, Richard, 1900-1976 -- Correspondence (Subject)
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Rules and/or conventions used
Description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
June 2011.
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Archivist's note
Description compiled by Rhys Morgan Jones;