Identity area
Reference code
LS2
Title
The Wall
Date(s)
- [1950]-[1974] (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Extent and medium
12 folders
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
'The Wall' was first published in Poetry, LXXXVII, No 2, Chicago, November 1955, and reprinted in the David Jones Special Issue of Agenda, Vol. 5, Nos. 1-3 (Spring-Summer, 1967). David Jones received the Harriot Monroe Prize for the poem. 'The Wall' and 'The Tutelar of the Place' were broadcast by the BBC in 1956. David Jones has dated the poem on page 14 'c.1952, but using, in part some fragments written c.1940.'
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The series comprises eleven files of manuscript and typescript drafts, proofs, and BBC scripts of his reading in 1956.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Eleven files arranged in the following order: manuscript drafts, typescript drafts, proofs, and broadcast scripts.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Generated finding aid
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
Preferred citation: LS2
Alternative identifier(s)
Virtua system control number
vtls004366031
GEAC system control number
(WlAbNL)0000366031