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- 1937-1938 (Creation)
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1 envelope.
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Biographical history
Philip Henry Burton (1904-1995), theatre director and writer, was a teacher at the Port Talbot secondary school attended by Richard Burton (then Jenkins) during the early 1940s. Burton became Jenkins's legal guardian and the boy adopted his mentor's surname as his own. Burton nurtured Richard's theatrical talent and helped launch the younger man's acting career. Their relationship is recorded in Burton's Richard and Philip: The Burtons. A Book of Memories (London, 1992).
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Scripts for two BBC programmes: 'Margam Abbey' by P. H. Burton, 1937, and an edition of 'Makers of Modern Wales' by David Williams on the subject of Thomas E. Ellis.
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- English
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English.
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The 'Margam Abbey' script was supplied to Ellis by T. Rowland Hughes (see his letter, 13 September 1938, in TC1/2).
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- Margam Abbey -- Drama (Subject)
- Ellis, Thomas Edward, 1859-1899 -- Drama (Subject)