Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1944-1945 / (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
17 ff. Guarded and filed at NLW.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Mrs Sarah Steinman Harms; Scottsville, New York; Donation; March 1998; A1998/25.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Seventeen cards (ff. 1-5) and letters (ff. 6-17), 1944-1945, being mainly love letters, from the novelist Richard Llewellyn to Sarah Steinman (later Mrs Sarah Steinman Harms). They were written while he was serving in Italy as a captain in the Welsh Guards and she with the American Red Cross in Rome.
Some of the letters are typescript (ff. 9-13, 15, 17) and several contain ink sketches (ff. 2 verso, 4 verso, 9, 11, 12 recto-verso). There are two letters of introduction of friends of his to Steinman (ff. 14, 16). One letter, postmark 6 May 1945 (f. 13), contains news, including an account of a V2 bomb attack near his home in London.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged in broad chronological order 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 noted on the 'Modern papers - data protection' form issued with their Readers' Tickets.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply. Information regarding the ownership of Richard Llewellyn copyright can be found at http://tyler.hrc.utexas.edu/ (viewed August 2009).
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
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Existence and location of copies
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Notes area
Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23710D.
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Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Llewellyn, Richard -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Steinman, Sarah R. -- Correspondence. (Subject)
- Steinman, Sarah R. (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
August 2009.
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Archivist's note
Description revised by Rhys Morgan Jones;