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- [1935]-1947. (Creation)
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11 ff.
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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).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Action: condition reviewed. Date: 20121114. Site of action: The National Library of Wales. Action agent: Siân Bowyer. Status: both pages are pasted onto separate pieces of cardboard; the last page is torn halfway across where the letter was previously folded. Institution: WlAbNL.
Action: condition reviewed. Date: 20121114. Site of action: The National Library of Wales. Action agent: Siân Bowyer. Status: contains two small tears either side where the letter was previously folded. Institution: WlAbNL.
Action: condition reviewed. Date: 20121114. Site of action: The National Library of Wales. Action agent: Siân Bowyer. Status: contains three small tears either side, two where the letter was previously folded. Institution: WlAbNL.
Action: condition reviewed. Date: 20121115. Site of action: The National Library of Wales. Action agent: Siân Bowyer. Status: contains two small tears either side where the letter was previously folded. Institution: WlAbNL.
Action: housed. Date: 20131003. Site of action: The National Library of Wales. Institution: WlAbNL.
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Arranged chronologically at NLW.
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Note
Notes in an unidentified hand are included in one corner on the reverse of the letter dated 11 February 1938.
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The reverse of the letter, dated [July 1938], contains a rough pencil sketch, in an unidentified hand, which appears to be the layout of a page, headed 'Angling'.
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Draft verses in pencil, in an unidentified hand, are noted on the reverse of the letter dated 8 August 1938.
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Preferred citation: C1/1/1.
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- Fisher, Charles, 1914- (Subject)