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Magazine cuttings and postcards featuring images of artworks by various artists including works dated 1914, 1923-43, 1946, and 1949, from artists such as Graham Sutherland, Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, Gauguin, Ben Nicholson, Paul Nash, Utrillo, Paul Klee, Leopold Zborowski, Cedric Morris, Modigliani, Mantegna, Graham Sutherland, Henri Rousseau, Paul Cezanne, Turner, Renoir, James Ensor, Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, Henry Moore, John Piper, Rouault, Georges Braque, and Louis Marcoussis, among others. The file also includes a letter to Alfred Janes from Winifred Coombe-Tennant, 1949.

The file includes photocopies of letters, 1937-1938, from Augustus John to [Sir John] Lavery; letters, 1920, relating to Augustus John's portrait of Lord Leverhulme, 1920, with a letter, 1970, from the Honorary Director of Beaverbrook Library; J. B. Manson, [1912]-[1940]; [General Bernard] Montgomery, 1938; Grant Murray, 1948; Arnold Palmer, 1930-[1959]; Hugo [Pitman], 1952-1953, and transcripts of letters, 1954 and [?1956], to Reine Pitman; Will[iam] [Rothenstein], [1911]-[1935], with transcripts of letters, [?1900]-[1913], and of two letters from Dorelia [John] to Alice [Rothenstein], [1914x1927]; [John Sampson, 1914-1915]; Frances Stevenson, 1919-1920, and extracts from letters, [1919], in NLW MS 21570E, concerning Augustus John's commission to paint the Paris Peace Conference in 1919; [Frida Strindberg], [?1911]; Winifred Coombe Tennant, 1950, with a photocopy of a letter from her; [Henry] Tonks, 1918; Sir Emery Walker, [1916]; and Maynard Walker, 1945. Also included are a few letters to some unidentified recipients.

Photocopies (some text faint) of forty-seven letters (one apparently incomplete) and one postcard, 1945-1947, from John Cowper Powys to the poet Huw Menai (Huw Owen Williams). The letters include references to health matters, works in progress, and family news, including the death of Powys's wife Margaret and of his brother Littleton Charles Powys's wife Elizabeth Myers, both in 1947. Enclosures comprise a photocopy of a letter [?from one of Huw Menai's daughters to her mother] (f. 5), a photocopy of printed poems by Kenneth Hopkins as they appeared in 'The Grasshopper' (f. 26), and a photocopy of a letter to Huw Menai from 'Mam o Nedd', i.e. Winifred Coombe Tennant (ff. 47-50). Some of the letters are illustrated with Powys's ink drawings, which include caricatures of himself and of Huw Menai, the latter often depicted as a sea-serpent.

Professional correspondence, 1928-1955, consisting mainly of letters to Alfred Janes (with some replies) relating to various matters such as featuring works in galleries and exhibitions, the purchase and shipping of artworks, and the death of Dylan Thomas. Correspondents include Alfred Janes; Charles [Fisher]; Tom Warner; Rex Nan Kivell (The Redfern Gallery); Heinz Koppel; Arthur Giardelli; Cyril Fox (National Museum of Wales); David [Wiseman] (British Institute of Adult Education); R. S. Farrington; F. H. Mayor (The Mayor Gallery); Jan Gordon; Peter Watson; Mervyn [Levy]; Elwyn Evans (BBC); E. M. O’Rooke Dickey (Ministry of Information re Artist’s Advisory Committee); D. H. I. Powell (South Wales Evening Post); Gillian Browse; Margaret Thomas; Michele Guidano; D. Brynmor Anthony (Contemporary Art Society for Wales); Heal & Son Gallery; Joseph E. Donington; Keidrych Rhys (at the Druid Press); Vernon & Gwen Watkins; Arthur R. Howell (St George’s Gallery London); South Wales Art Society; Isabelita Alonso; David Bell (Arts Council of Great Britain); Ceri [Richards]; Margaret S. Taylor (Cyfarthfa Castle Art Gallery & Museum); Cedric Morris; Winifred Coombe Tennant; Irene Bache; Margaret Gunnell (The British Council); John Steepman (National Museum of Wales); Esther Grainger; Bill Price; C. G. Tagholm; Mervyn Rees; Dilys Rowe; C. Joynson (River Towy Fishery Board); W. Harding Edwards; Mr Baker (Dunvant College); A. E. Rees; Dilwyn John (National Museum of Wales); Iorwerth Hughes Jones; A. E. Wade (South Wales Art Society); A. L. Lavender (Swansea Art Society); Gwyneth V. Lewis; R. Gregory Absalom (Newport Museum & Art Gallery); John Petts (Arts Council of Great Britain); Philip James (Arts Council of Great Britain); N. Thomas (Arts Council of Great Britain); Selwyn Jones; War Office; W. Grant Murray (Swansea School of Arts & Crafts); T.S. Bertram Coats; P. J. Barlow (The South Wales Group); Stuart Thomas; David Higham; Jenkyn Jones; Charles Carter (The Art Gallery Aberdeen); B. P. Rees; Rex Nan Kivell (The Redfern Gallery); John Griffiths (BBC); Henry Tonks; and Dan [Daniel Jones]. Additionally the file contains various related papers, 1940-1955, including a receipt for the purchase of the painting ‘Hyacinths’, 1949; BBC invite, talk on ‘What is Modern Painting?’ for Arts Magazine, 1949; receipt for ‘Two Lobsters’, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1949; an invitation for submission of work to Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales, 1950; receipts for packing & shipping paintings, Alfred Stiles & Sons, 1940; a rent book, Alfred Janes, Swansea, 1951-1952; a draft constitution for the South Wales Academy, 1954; and a Swansea street plan, 1954-1955.

A copy of Dr Emyr Wyn Jones's work 'Winifred Coombe Tennant a'r Eisteddfod' to be published in Y Traethodydd, based mainly on the letters of Winifred Coombe Tennant ('Mam o Nedd', 1874-1956) to Beriah Gwynfe Evans (1848-1927) (now NLW MS 23644C).

Copi o waith Dr Emyr Wyn Jones 'Winifred Coombe Tennant a'r Eisteddfod' i'w gyhoeddi yn Y Traethodydd, yn seiliedig yn bennaf ar lythyrau Winifred Coombe Tennant ('Mam o Nedd', 1874-1956) at Beriah Gwynfe Evans (1848-1927) (yn awr NLW MS 23644C).

Llythyrau, [1949]-[1963], gan gynnwys rhai oddi wrth y Fonesig Amy Parry-Williams, Brynallt (3), Mam o Nedd, Cynan, Telynores Rhondda (2), Caerwyn (3), J. Dyfnallt Owen, Trefîn (2), Syr John Cecil-Williams, D. Jacob Davies, Clement Davies, Gwilym R. Tilsley; ynghyd â mân bapurau gan gynnwys taflen, 1931, yn hysbysebu cyhoeddi llyfr Erfyl Fychan, Bywyd Cymdeithasol Cymru yn y Ddeunawfed Ganrif a 'Serch ifanc a huna' sef cyfieithiad Erfyl Fychan o eiriau Arthur Somerverell 'Young love lies sleeping', Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Caerdydd 1960 (printiedig).