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Autograph and typescript essays and lecture notes, [c. 1935]-[1966], on Wilfred Owen and his poetry.

Ink score in three parts, dated 14 July 1993, and titled Opus 67: 'Three Songs for Tenor and Piano: Settings of Poems by Wilfred Owen'. The piece was originally composed to commemorate the centenary of Wilfred Owen's birth, and in memory of the composer's friend William Mathias. It was commissioned by the Fishguard Music Festival, 1993, in association with the Welsh Arts Council, and was first performed at the Fishguard Music Festival by Maldwyn Davies, tenor, and the composer.

First edition of poet and translator Vernon Watkins's collection of poems Cypress and Acacia, published by Faber & Faber in 1959, the frontispiece inscribed in Watkins's hand: 'for Maurice Zarb, a true friend of unfailing kindness, in gratitude [signed] Vernon'.
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Letter, 1959, from Vernon Watkins to Maurice Zarb, which references Watkins's family, the poems titled 'A Man with a Field' and 'The Scythe' (both of which appear in the enclosed volume) and Watkins's and Zarb's work at Bletchley Park (see note below) during the Second World War. For Cypress and Acadia see, for example: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cypress-Acacia-Vernon-Watkins/dp/0571036872.

(Undated) photocopied typescript of a critical analysis by Vernon Watkins titled 'The Poetry of Wilfred Owen'. According to a note which originally accompanied this sub-archive, this item was given to Tony Curtis by Vernon Watkins in 1966 when Watkins was tutor to Curtis at the then University College, Swansea (for further material relating to Curtis's period of study at University College, Swansea, see April 2016 papers under heading University College, Swansea).