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- 1970-1997 (Creation)
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Christopher John Morgan was born 2 May 1944, the child of J. and Eileen C. Morgan, sometime of Roath Park, Cardiff. He was educated at De La Salle school and St Illtyd's college, Cardiff, and University College, Swansea. He taught at various schools, including Ladycross preparatory school, Sussex, 1965-1967 and 1972-1976, and Marlborough House school, Kent, 1976-1984, and (teacher training placements?) at Plasmarl junior school, Swansea, and Neath grammar school, both 1971, before taking early retirement in 1984 due to ill health. After retirement he was a full-time writer of plays, novels, poems and letters. He died in 2014.
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Copy of series of typescript poems (revised 1997) by poet, writer, playwright and teacher Christopher Morgan titled 'Paragraphs from a Fifties Cardiff Childhood'.
Photocopied typescript poem, 1972, by Christopher Morgan titled 'A Day in the Life', 'dedicated ... to the men at the Newbold Refractories, Leicestershire' (front cover dedication by Morgan).
Series of typescript poems, some dated, and poems photocopied from a printed source by Christopher Morgan. Some poems include critical notes in Tony Curtis's hand.
Poems by Christopher Morgan and others delivered at a poetry reading session run by Tony and Margaret Curtis in Northwich, 1970-71.
Typescript short story titled 'Jamie', dated August 1973, by Christopher Morgan. Note in Morgan's hand on front cover: 'Marg[aret] & Tony's copy ....'.
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- English
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Christopher Morgan was born in Cardiff and educated at De La Salle School and St Illtyd's college, Cardiff and at University College, Swansea. Following his retirement from teaching, he became a full-time writer of plays, novels, poems and letters (https://archives.library.wales/index.php/christopher-morgan).
See Christopher Morgan Papers within the National Library of Wales's collections.