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- [2000x2012] (Creation)
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Draft typescript prose pieces by Tony Curtis, most of which are annotated in Curtis's hand.
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Critical piece relating to some of the works of poet and physician Dannie Abse titled '"All change!" - Dannie Abse and the C20th Wars'.
Script of what appears to be an address given by Tony Curtis on the occasion of the unveiling of a statue called 'Boy with Book' by sculptor Robert Thomas (1926-1999).
Introduction by Tony Curtis to an unnamed publication which Curtis describes as 'the companion volume to After the First Death: an anthology of Wales and war in the twentieth century [Seren Books, 2009]'.
Piece titled 'My Tenby'.
Draft contents pages of proposed publication by Tony Curtis titled 'Concerning Wales[:] Writings on culture and life in Wales'.
Text of the Gwyn Jones Lecture 2009, given by Tony Curtis, titled '"The Meaning of Apricot Sponge: John Tripp's Taste for Life"'. See also Tony Curtis (ed.): The Meaning of Apricot Sponge: Selected Writings of John Tripp (Parthian Books, 2010) (see, for example: https://www.parthianbooks.com/products/the-meaning-of-apricot-sponge)
Together with one folio of draft piece apparently by the painter David Tress; inscribed at top of folio in Tony Curtis's hand: 'TS by David TRESS. DEC 2007'.
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For Dannie Abse, see, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dannie_Abse
For Robert Thomas, see, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Thomas_(sculptor)
For John Tripp, see, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tripp_(poet)
For David Tress, see, for example: https://www.davidtress.co.uk/
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- Abse, Dannie, 1923-2014 (Subject)
- Tripp, John, 1927-1986 (Subject)
- Tress, David, 1955- (Subject)
- Thomas, Robert, 1926-1999 (Subject)