Dangos 10 canlyniad

Personal correspondence, [1972]-1979, consisting of letters and cards to Alfred and Mary Janes, with replies and drafts of replies, relating to portrait commissions and sales, shipping of works, personal & family matters, Croydon College of Art, and Dylan Thomas. Correspondents include Stuart and Nicola Denyer; Professor John Parry, Harvard; Joyce Parry; Kate Parry; Colin Edwards; Ross Janes; Isabel Alonso; Charles Fisher; W. H. Hofmann & Co.; Michael & Carol [Fleming]; Barbara Evans; Take Okada; Marjorie [Watkins]; Alfred Brandt; Peter Siegel; John Evans; Gianni [Gianmarco Bernadini]; Margaret West; A. M. Atkinson (Croydon Art Society); Ellen Edwards; D. G. Banwell (Dulwich College); Arthur W. Martin; P. Phillips (Croydon College of Art); Eno Falutti & others; Jonathan Attwood; Mervyn Levy; Lilian Whitehead; Denis O’Sullivan; Polly Crabtree (Artists in Schools Directory); Paul Ferris (The Observer); Bob Warner; Roland Mathias (The Anglo-Welsh Review); Bruno Garbato; Richard E. Kent; Peter [Schurr]; Margaret Ellis (Swansea Art Society); Paul Clough (Kettle’s Yard Gallery, Cambridge); Elizabeth Parry; Robin & Enid [H. Jones]; J. A. Sandover (Papua New Guinea University of Technology); Glenys & John [Evans]; Tom Jones; Olive Davison; Dan [Daniel Jones]; Hilly Janes; Kirstine [Dunthorne] (Welsh Arts Council); R. S. Thomas (University College Swansea); J. Bullingham (University College Swansea); E. Grey-Turner; and W. Warren, (Royal College of Psychiatrists). Amongst the correspondence are a number of related papers, including invoices for shipping ‘Boys with Crab’, 1978, and for Christie’s auction house, 1979; a Christie’s sale catalogue, ‘English & Continental Pictures & Icons’, 1979; a copy of ‘The Dulwich Villager’ newsletter, 1976; Welsh Arts Council ‘Awards to Artists 1976-77 Notes for Applicants’; invitations, to apply to Welsh Arts Council Editions Alecto Print Scheme 1976-1977 and Welsh Arts Council ‘Aid To Artists’ grants 1976-1977, and Cambridge Art & Design ‘Paintings & Sculpture’ exhibition, 1974; a press cutting, 1975; and a poster for Polytechnic of Central London exhibitions, undated.

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.

Professional correspondence, 1993-1999, consisting of letters to Alfred and Mary Janes (with some replies by Alfred Janes) relating mainly to the Dylan Thomas Society (of which Janes was a vice-president), and various art publications and documentaries. Correspondents include Huw Ceiriog Jones (National Library of Wales); Angela M. Brunt (re the Vernon Watkins Trail); Selwyn Roderick & Derwyn Williams, re the documentary ‘Goodbye What Were You’; Charles Fisher; Alan Torjussen; Stephen Done; Peter Lord; Robin Paisey; Colin Shewring; Richard Davies; Bernard Houser; Esme Loxton; Penelope Minney; Gilbert Bennett; Eurwen Price; Susan & Peter [Schurr]; Enid & Robin H. Jones; John & Jean [Hosea]; Eileen & Arthur [MacKenzie]; Robert Scott; Andrew Vicari; and Paul Joyner (National Library of Wales Framed Works Digitisation Project). Amongst the correspondence there are a number of related papers, including a cuttings of obituaries for Mervyn Levy, 1996, Caitlin Thomas, 1994, Daniel Jones, 1993, and Giandomenico Bernadini, 1994; Dylan Thomas Society programmes, 1994-1995; a programme for ‘An evening of tribute to Dylan Thomas and Daniel Jones’, 1993; Dylan Thomas Society newsletter, 1994; and a typescript of two chapters for an untitled work re the Kardomah gang, Swansea, 1993.

Includes letters, 1935-1997, from John Malcolm Brinnin (4), John Davenport (2), Nicolette Devas, George Firmage (2), Alfred Janes (2), Mary Keene, Mervyn Levy, Mably Ceredig Owen (2), John Prichard (to Dylan Thomas, enclosing typescript play, 'The centric part'), Bill Read (2), Lynette Roberts, Stephen Spender (3), Margaret Taylor (2), and Tom Warner (2). Amongst the recipients are Vernon Watkins, Daniel Jones, and Charles Fisher. Also included are press cuttings, [1949]-1999, relating to Alfred Janes, mostly tributes.

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.

Seven autograph letters, one signed typescript letter, and a postcard, [1935]-1947, from Dylan Thomas to Charles Fisher, in which he mainly discusses personal news and his work, responds to CF's enquiry about his "theory of poetry" and explains his method of drafting and recording his work on paper (ff. 1-2), refers to the company at Blashford and his fondness for Swansea (f. 3), collaborating with CF on 'Murder of the King's Canary' [sic] (f. 4), his new poems and book, In the direction of the beginning (f. 7), the war and the 'Keidrych Rhyses' (f. 8), and a forthcoming stay in Italy with the family where he hopes to write poetry (f. 11).

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.

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.

A photo print labelled 'Dylan Thomas funeral', showing a group of people gathered around a kitchen table, [1953]. Those in the photo include Jim Jones (brother of Daniel Jones); John Ormond; John Prichard; Alfred Janes; Irene Jones; Margaret Taylor; Charles Fisher; Mabley Owen; Daniel Jones; 'Mrs Thomas' (Dylan's mother); and Mary Janes.