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The file comprises papers relating to A new romantic anthology, ed. S. Schimanski & H. Treece (London, 1949), in which the chapter 'Welsh poetry' was selected and introduced by Glyn Jones. Included are manuscript drafts of his introduction, 'Romanticism and Welsh Poetry', and transcripts by Glyn Jones of selected pieces by various authors. The file also contains a draft letter by Glyn Jones to Dylan Thomas, letters, 1945-1946, from publishers and literary agents, and a letter to Lynette Roberts.

Typescript copies of 'A merry manshape (or Dylan Thomas at a distance)', [1950x1970]; and 'A niche for Dylan Thomas', [1973], which appears to be an earlier draft of the article published in Poetry Wales, vol. 9, no. 2 (Autumn 1973).

An address book ([?1945x?1947]) belonging to Alfred Janes, including notes on painting and composition; and addresses of contacts listed in alphabetical order. Contacts include Charles Fisher, Esther Grainger, Arthur Giardelli, Lord Harlech, Wynne Cemlyn Jones, Augustus John, Daniel Jones, Mervyn Levy, Cedric Morris, John Prichard, Keidrych Rhys, Ceri Richards, Edith Sitwell, Goronwy Rees, Bert Trick, Dylan Thomas, Wynford Vaughan Thomas, Vernon Watkins, Eliot Crawshay-Williams, Huw Wheldon, and Sir Watkins Williams-Wynn, among others.

Edited and annotated screenplay by Wayne Parker titled Adulation, together with plot synopses and brief critical evaluations. The storyline centres around a series of murders carried out in New York in the days preceding the death there in 1953 of poet Dylan Thomas.

Copies of magazines featuring articles relating to the works of Alfred Janes, Vernon Watkins, and Dylan Thomas, comprising copies of ‘The Listener’, vol. LXVIII no.1754, 1962; ‘Audit’, vol. II no.2, 1962; ‘Mademoiselle’, 1955; ‘Poetry’, vol. 101 no. 1-2, 1962; ‘Morley Magazine’, vol. 80 no.2, 1974; ‘Picture Press: The Journal of Pressed Steel Company Ltd’, undated; and ‘Observer Magazine’, 1976; together with a programme for ‘Tribute to Vernon Watkins’, Swansea Little Theatre, 1968.

Papers, 1966-2015, relating to the filming and production of Under Milk Wood (1972), directed by Andrew Sinclair, together with papers relating to the financing and distribution of the film and to other Dylan Thomas projects.

Copies and cuttings of articles written by or featuring works of Alfred Janes and others, comprising ‘Sir Alfred Munnings’ Presidential Speech’ (Royal Academy), 1949; ‘William Scott: a life study’ (published in The Independent), [?1989]; ‘Portrait of an artist as a young man’ (article in Western mail using Janes’s 1934 portrait of Dylan Thomas), 1997; three typescripts of a radio broadcast ‘Swansea and the Arts’, by Dylan Thomas, Vernon Watkins, Alfred Janes, Daniel Jones & John Prichard, 1949; and a copy of Croydon College School of Art & Design Programme in Complementary Studies for Fine Art Students, [?1960s-1970s]; together with a note titled ‘Details of Fred at RA Schools’, undated.

Letters to Sam Adams from Professor Barbara Handy (5) concerning a Dylan Thomas number of Poetry Wales, including an article by her entitled 'The personal and the impersonal in some of Dylan Thomas's lyrics', together with letters from Rhoda Goodwin (3) concerning the 'Collected stories' of Geraint Goodwin, and a card from Myfanwy [Lumsden] about genealogical research by members of Geraint Goodwin's family.

Bound typescript (photocopy), [1965x1968], of a paper by B. W. Murphy, entitled 'Creation and destruction. Notes on Dylan Thomas'; together with an offprint of an article based on this work published in the British Journal of Medical Psychology, 41, (1968), pp. 149-167; three related letters, 1964-1965, from the author to Vernon Watkins; and an undated typescript copy of an unsigned letter by Dylan Thomas to Marguerite Caetani.

Thirty-five letters, 1944-1957, to the artists' model Mary Keene, comprising twenty-three from her friend Caitlin Thomas, 1945-1954 (ff. 1-30), six from the latter's sister Brigit Marnier, 1944-1949 (ff. 33-43), and six from Florence Thomas, mother of Dylan Thomas, 1954-1957 (ff. 44-53), all containing personal and family news.
Also included is a letter, 11 October 1950, to Caitlin Thomas from her domestic help, Dolly Long of Laugharne (ff. 31-32). There are numerous references to Dylan Thomas (ff. 1 verso-10 passim, 19, 20 27 verso) and his funeral (ff. 43-44) and to Caitlin (in addition to her own letters) (ff. 36 verso, 44-54 passim). There are also references to Laurie Lee (f. 16 verso), Anthony Devas (f. 23 verso), Louis MacNeice (f. 45 verso) and Daniel Jones (f. 47 verso).

Full score transparencies, 1961, of 'Cantata' (opus 32) by Denis ApIvor, being a setting for four solo voices, chorus, speaker, and orchestra of the ten 'Altarwise by owl-light' sonnets by Dylan Thomas; and vocal score, 1961, of the same work in a photographic reproduction from transparency. Autograph additions to the vocal score include corrections made in 1985 and a note on performance on back flyleaf.

Papers of Colin Edwards (d. 1994), a radio journalist of Welsh descent, relating to his incomplete book on Dylan Thomas ('Dylan Remembered'), comprising typescript chapters of the work and index cards; transcripts of audio tapes including interviews with Philip Burton, Gwynfor Evans, Glyn Jones, Vernon Watkins, and Florence Thomas, mother of Dylan Thomas; and address books containing names and notes on Dylan Thomas's relatives, acquaintances and persons interviewed by him

Further papers of Colin Edwards, to be added to the papers received in July 1996 and April 1999, comprising press cuttings, mainly 1970s, relating to Dylan Thomas (1914-1953); copies of Dylan Thomas Remembered published by the Dylan Thomas Society Welsh Branch in 1978; the Adam International Review, no. 238, 1953, dedicated to Dylan Thomas, Ethel Ross's Dylan Thomas and the Amateur Theatre, published by Swansea Little Theatre, and The New Welsh Review, Spring 1992 ('Dylan Thomas Special'); together with a typescript transcript of an interview with Philip Burton, and a script entitled 'Dylan in His Youth'

Additional papers of Colin Edwards, mainly relating to Dylan Thomas, including letters from Glyn Jones, Ralph Maud, Constantine FitzGibbon and Bert Trick, a script of an interview with Sada Thompson and Nancy Wickwire on Dylan Thomas, notebooks, and press cuttings.

A script, 1948, featuring the Isle of Thanet in the 'Country Magazine' series, a BBC Home Service transmission, with Dylan Thomas introducing the programme.

A copy of a paper by B. William Murphy, Maryland, USA, entitled 'Creation and Destruction. Notes on Dylan Thomas' used by Colin Edwards (d. 1994), California, when preparing his incomplete and unpublished work on Dylan Thomas.

Seven pocket diaries (1944, 1950-1953, and 1955) belonging to Alfred Janes, including names and addresses, notes, sketches, memos, and shopping lists. Addressees include Dylan Thomas (The Boathouse, Laugharne), Charles Fisher, Keidrych Rhys, and Esther Grainger.

Notebook containing diary of Daniel Jones for 1936, which describes his travels throughout Europe after being awarded the Mendelssohn Scholarship, a British and German award presented to young composers to facilitate their further studies. Daniel Jones's name and address written in his hand inside front cover. First entry dated 'Thursday Sept 24 1936'. The diary notes are interspersed with annotated pencil sketches of buildings and architectural features noted while travelling, together with sections of musical scores.
f. 43: reproduced photograph of the poet and writer Dylan Thomas, a close friend of Daniel Jones, as a very young man, taped to page.
f. 55: observations on Dylan Thomas's nascent poetic talent taken from a printed source, taped to page.
f. 55v: draft letter written in French to a [Monsieur] Pirretti and signed 'DJ'.
f. 71 poem in Daniel Jones's hand titled 'The Colloseum [sic], Rome Nov. 16th 1936'.
f. 81: notification of a piano recital by Leonard Morris, taken from the Radio Times, 9 October 1936, taped to page.
f. 90: observations on Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, taken from a printed source, taped to page.
Loose contents inserted into the volume comprise rough notes, a record of cheque payments, a traced map of a section of Europe and an untitled draft poem written on hotel notepaper.

Notebook containing diary of Daniel Jones describing his visit to the then Soviet Union in 1960. Some Russian (Cyrillic) script. 'DANIEL JONES' written in his hand on front and back covers and on flyleaf. Daniel Jones's name and address, partly in Russian (Cyrillic) script, written in his hand inside front cover. First entry reads: 'Saturday April 30th'. Calendars for 1958 and 1959 printed on back cover.

Miscellaneous drawings by Ceri Richards comprising a Christmas card, c. 1930; a series of nine preliminary sketches, [November 1953], in pencil and ink, for the decorations executed by him on four copies of the first edition of Dylan Thomas's Collected Poems (1952) (see note to 544 and 581, below); a signed collage entitled 'Hammerklavier' presented to the artist's daughter, Rachel, Christmas 1953, together with four printed cards announcing his exhibition of lithographs on the 'Hammerklavier' theme, 1959, each with different original decorations by the artist in crayon and ink (see 544, below). Also included are an untitled, numbered lithograph signed by Frances Richards, [1970s], and miscellaneous notes, [?late 1940s], by Ceri Richards, comprising notes for a lecture on art, and transcripts, in English translation, of writings on art by Henri Matisse.

The file comprises a scrapbook, press cuttings, articles and programmes, 1954-1998, relating to the life and work of Dylan Thomas.

Material relating to the Dylan Thomas Jazz Suite 'Twelve Poems', a piece commissioned by the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the death of celebrated Swansea-born poet and writer Dylan Thomas. Composed by Jen Wilson, the Suite comprises jazz settings of twelve of Thomas's poems. The work was performed as part of the Sean Dunne Writer's Festival in Waterford, Ireland, at the 2003 Brecon Jazz Festival and at the Madog Center for Welsh Studies, Unviersity of Rio Grande, Ohio; however, funding for a tour of 'Twelve Poems' to mark the Dylan Thomas 100 centenary festival of 2014 was rejected. The material includes copious correspondence; funding applications; projected expenses; list of potential performance venues; enquiry sheets; press releases and previews; posters; concert programmes; performance contracts; and press cuttings; together with general material relating to Dylan Thomas and Dylan Thomas festivals.

Details of the 'BOAS London Youth Choir Charity London Event', held 27 October 2014 to celebrate the centenary of Anglo-Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas's birth, at which Tony Curtis introduced contributors to the event and read works by himself and others. Annotated/amended in both Tony and Margaret Curtis's hands.
See also poem titled 'Dylan at One Hundred' under heading Individual poems by Tony Curtis and interview with Kate Noakes under heading Interviews conducted by/with Tony Curtis.