File A2/3 - Professional correspondence

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A2/3

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Professional correspondence

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  • 1953-1982 (with gaps) (Creation)

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1 folder

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(1911-1999)

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Professional correspondence, 1963-1982, consisting of letters to Alfred Janes (with replies by Alfred Janes) relating mainly to exhibitions, portrait commissions, and the sale of artworks. Correspondents include Herbert Brabin (The Constitutional Club); Roberto Sanesi; Olive Davison; Herbert Wiesner; L. V. Newman (Port Talbot Steelworks art exhibition); Jonathan Ingersoll (St Mary’s College Maryland); Principal, Croydon College of Design & Technology; R. Wilkinson; Roland Mathias (Anglo-Welsh Review); Kirstine Dunthorne (Welsh Arts Council); Robert Baines; D. W. Boorman; Take Ocada; Audrey Davies; Geraint Rees (HTV); Maurice Cooke; Duchess of St Albans (Upper Grosvenor Galleries London); R. Brangwyn; Valmai Ward (Welsh Arts Council); Lawrence Wass; Francine Sherlock (Welsh Arts Council); Peter Jones (Welsh Arts Council); Gwynfor [Evans]; Sheila Lochhead (Friends of the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery); J. S. Bunt (Glynn Vivian Art Gallery); R. L. Wakelin (Swansea Art Society); Clive Barda; T. Arfon Owen (Coleg Prifysgol Cymru); Thomas Parry (University of Wales Aberystwyth); Pamela Watson (J. M. Dent & Sons re ‘The Selected Letters of Dylan Thomas’), together with a copy of a letter to Alfred Janes from Dylan Thomas, January 1953, copied from Swansea Public Libraries, 1969; Ethel [Ross]; Frances Edwards (Welsh Arts Council); Leslie M. Rees (Swansea Libraries); Robin [H. Jones]; Colin D. Edwards; G. W. Churcher; Gerald M. Porter; Joan Saunders (Writer’s & Speaker’s Research); Rollo Charles (National Museum of Wales); Ivor Keys; John Hewitt (Herbert Art Gallery and Museum); Norman Pegden (Herbert Art Gallery); Karl Kasten (University of Berkeley California); Diana Gruffydd Williams; Warren Roberts (University of Texas); Denis Mitchell; Elwyn W. Timothy (BBC); and Vernon [Watkins]. Additionally, the file also contains some related papers, including press cuttings, 1973-1975; invoices for return of artworks and commissions, 1966-1971; and an invitation and seating plan for the Thomas & Enid Parry Honorary Dinner, Penbryn, Aberystwyth, 1969.

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The file was originally labelled 'Painting'.

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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

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  • Text: Alfred Janes Papers A2/3