Eitem NLW MS 23925E, f. 33. - Saunders Lewis letter,

Ardal dynodi

Cod cyfeirnod

NLW MS 23925E, f. 33.

Teitl

Saunders Lewis letter,

Dyddiad(au)

  • 13 October 1982 / (Creation)

Lefel y disgrifiad

Eitem

Maint a chyfrwng

1 f.

Ardal cyd-destun

Enw'r crëwr

Hanes bywgraffyddol

Saunders Lewis, dramatist, poet, historian and literary critic, was born in Wallasey, Cheshire to a family of prominent Welsh Calvinistic Methodists. He was educated at a boys's school in Liscard and at Liverpool University, where he studied English and French. His academic career was interrupted by the First World War, in which Lewis served with the South Wales Borderers, but he quickly resumed his studies at the end of the conflict, and, having graduated, worked as librarian in Glamorgan before taking up a post as lecturer in the Welsh department of the University College of Swansea. In 1925, Lewis was one of the pioneering figures involved in establishing the National Party of Wales (later known as Plaid Cymru) and was made President of the fledgeling organisation the following year. Having written about the Roman Catholic church for a number of years, in 1932 Lewis converted to the faith also practised by his wife Margaret. In 1936, Lewis, D. J. Williams and Lewis Valentine set fire to the Royal Airforce's Bombing School in Penyberth on the Lleyn Peninsula, an event which has gone down in the annals of Welsh history and which earned Lewis imprisonment in Wormwood Scrubs and dismissal from his lecturing post in Swansea. He was eventually appointed senior lecturer in Welsh at the University of Cardiff but retired in 1957 to devote his time to writing. Lewis's litarary output is prodigious and he is considered by many to be the most important Welsh literary and political figure of the twentieth century; it is considered that his radio address for 1962, Tynged yr Iaith, was the direct instigating force behind the establishment of the Welsh language movement Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg.

Hanes archifol

Ffynhonnell

Ms Kathryn A. Klar,; Donation; April 2005; 0200503390.

Ardal cynnwys a strwythur

Natur a chynnwys

Letter, 13 October 1982, from Saunders Lewis, Penarth, to Kathryn A. Klar, Richmond, California, replying to a letter concerning her research into Canu Aneirin at the University of California, Berkeley.
He describes the negative reaction of Ifor Williams, amongst others, to his book Braslun o Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg (Cardiff, 1932), the conclusions of which however correspond with those of Klar and her colleagues; he also describes his current state of health.

Gwerthuso, dinistrio ac amserlennu

Croniadau

System o drefniant

Ardal amodau mynediad a defnydd

Amodau rheoli mynediad

Amodau rheoli atgynhyrchu

Iaith y deunydd

Sgript o ddeunydd

Nodiadau iaith a sgript

English.

Cyflwr ac anghenion technegol

Cymhorthion chwilio

Ardal deunyddiau perthynol

Bodolaeth a lleoliad y gwreiddiol

Bodolaeth a lleoliad copïau

Unedau o ddisgrifiad cysylltiedig

For the other half of the correspondence, together with a Xerox copy of this letter, see NLW MS 22725E, ff. 104-111.

Disgrifiadau cysylltiedig

Ardal nodiadau

Nodiadau

Title based on contents.

Nodiadau

Preferred citation: NLW MS 23925E, f. 33.

Dynodwr(dynodwyr) eraill

Virtua system control number

vtls004404299

GEAC system control number

(WlAbNL)0000404299

Pwyntiau mynediad

Pwyntiau mynediad lleoedd

Pwyntiau mynediad Genre

Ardal rheolaeth disgrifiad

Dynodwr disgrifiad

Dynodwr sefydliad

Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

Rheolau a/neu confensiynau a ddefnyddiwyd

Statws

Lefel manylder disgrifiad

Dyddiadau creadigaeth adolygiad dilead

Iaith(ieithoedd)

Sgript(iau)

Ffynonellau

Ardal derbyn

Genres cysylltiedig

Lleoedd cysylltiedig

Storfa ffisegol

  • Text: NLW MS 23925E, f. 33.