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Personal correspondence, 1960-1978, consisting of letters and cards to Alfred & Mary Janes and family, relating to family matters and the death of Vernon Watkins. Correspondents include Ross [Janes]; Elizabeth [Parry]; Frances & Ceri Richards; Vernon Watkins; Marjorie Watkins; Sarah Watkins; Daniel Jones & family; Gwen [Watkins]; Gareth [?Watkins]; Constantine Fitzgibbon; Iorwerth Hughes Jones; Ethel [Ross]; John & Joyce [Parry]; Kenneth Hancock; and John & Christine Nash; together with a number of related papers including programme for memorial service for Ceri Richards, 1971; draft poetry (undated, 1968); four photos labelled ‘Michael’, ‘Christopher’, ‘Tom & Michael’ all 1990; cuttings, 1963, re Dylan Thomas memorial stone; a press cutting, re the death of Iorwerth Hughes Jones, 1972; order of service for memorial of Iorwerth Hughes Jones, 1972; and a copy of the Dulwich College Dramatic Society production programme ‘A Penny for a Song’ 1972. Additionally, the file also contains a catalogue of sale for ‘Porcelain, Art & Furniture’, Bond Street, London, 1949.

Personal correspondence, [1979]-1990, consisting of letters and cards to Alfred and Mary Janes, with replies and drafts of replies, relating to the Dylan Thomas Award and his memorial at Westminster Abbey, portrait commissions, reproduction fees, inclusion of works in exhibitions, and purchase of art works. Correspondents include George Tremlett (Corran Books); S. P. Lock; Frances Clifford-Jones (J. M. Dent & Sons Publishers); Richard Smith; Walford Davies; Jennifer Hallam (Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea); Charles Fisher; Caroline MacGregor (Pan Books); Jane Wood; Susan & Peter [Schurr]; Melanie Vaughan-Hughes; Andrew Knight (Andrew Knight Gallery); Geoff Hassell; Ann Landers (The Welsh Group); John Sheeran (Dulwich Picture Gallery); Valmai Ward (Welsh Arts Council); J. Idris Evans (Swansea & District National Eisteddfod); Alan Figg (Howard Martin Memorial Trust); Eric Rowan (Welsh Arts Council); John O[?rmond] (BBC); Professor John Parry (Harvard); Kate Parry; Joyce Parry; D. Naismith; Clifford Simmons (The Poetry Society); John Bunt (Glynn Vivian Gallery); Sally Williams (Oriel); Bruno Garbato; Eileen [?MacKenzie]; Colin D. Edwards; W. R. J. Pullen (Westminster Abbey); Glenys & John [Evans]; Peter L. Lantos (Institute of Psychiatry); John Gunn (Institute of Psychiatry); Richard D’Aeth; Jeremy Morgan; Don Lewis (Church of St Mary Swansea); Helen Ratcliffe & Christopher Hood (Swansea Fringe); Lowri Morgan (University of Wales Press); Barbara Chaffey (The Maudlsey Hospital); Graham King (West Glamorgan County Council); John Laws; Bill & Jean Warner; G. H. C. Wilmot; and Peter Jones (Welsh Arts Council). Amongst the correspondence are a number of other related papers, including press cuttings, 1980, 1982, and 1987-[?1988]; invoices, 1980-1981, 1984, and 1986-1987; drafts of tributes by Alfred Janes to Ceri Richards, undated, and Kenneth Hancock, 1982; a Corran Books Catalogue, 1983; a programme for ‘Under Milk Wood’ (Festival of Dylan Thomas), 1986; a copy of ‘Collectorplan/Cynllun Casglu’ for artworks in Welsh galleries, [1984]; a list of drawings to be sold, 1979; invitations to the Swansea & District National Eisteddfod, 1981, and the launch of ‘Wales in Verse’ by Dannie Abse [?1983];a ‘Notice to Artists’ (Royal Academy of Arts), 1983; and an advertisement for an exhibition ‘Andy Wood: Paintings and Watercolours’ (Thackeray Gallery, London), 1981.

Correspondence and papers relating to the artists: Emmanuall Georgion, Eric Gill, Ronald Gibbs, Esther Grainger, James Govier, Moses Griffith, H. Morgan Hall, Nina Hamnett, Kenneth Hancock, Hywel Harries, Dafydd Harris, John Heritage, Cicely Hey, Michael Higgins, Elizabeth Hill, Robert Hughes, Hugh Hughes, Ian Hickman, Joan Hutt, Cyril Ifold, [1953]-[1995].