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Nine letters, 1965-1971, from the poet, novelist and film director B. S. Johnson to the poet Bryn Griffiths, discussing the latter's poetry and prose contributions to Transatlantic Review and other publications edited by Johnson, as well as giving news of Johnson's own work.
Also included are a carbon copy of a testimonial from Johnson, supporting Griffiths's application for a bursary from the [?Welsh] Arts Council, [1967] (f. 4), and a contract (ff. 7-8) and letter (f. 9), February 1968, from the publishers Victor Gollancz, concerning Griffiths's article for The Evacuees, ed. by B. S. Johnson (London, 1968).

The file comprises undated and incomplete letters to David Jones from various people including Bryn Griffiths, Aneirin Talfan Davies, Rachel Maxwell-Hyslop, J. H. Gettins, Rachel Bromwich, Michael Rothenstein, Gerald Morgan, Will Carter (2), Margaret Aeron-Thomas, Dedwydd Jones, William Hayward (2), Morag McLennan, Lynette Roberts, Stanley [Honeyman], and others.

The file comprises papers, 1966-1967, relating to Welsh voices. An anthology of new poetry from Wales, ed. Bryn Griffiths (London, 1967), mostly correspondence between Glyn Jones and Bryn Griffiths which includes lists of poems for the anthology (one letter also contains observations regarding the Aberfan disaster). Glyn Jones appears to have acted as consultant on behalf of the Welsh Arts Council during the compilation of the anthology.