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- 1981-1982 (Creation)
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1 folder
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Scope and content
Material relating to the Academi Gymreig Playwrights Group, of which Tony Curtis was a member, comprising: scripts of plays by group members, including plays titled 'Detention' and 'Patience Being a Virtue' and two untitled draft plays by Tony Curtis; correspondence; list of group members; and details of tasks set to members. One (untitled) play (photocopied typescript) is by Anglo-Welsh poet and writer Nigel Jenkins ((photocopied) signature at top left corner of first page).
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Accruals
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Different versions of the same play are kept together.
Correspondence arranged chronologically.
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Language of material
- English
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Note
For Yr Academi Gymreig/The Welsh Academy, see, for example: https://archives.library.wales/index.php/papuraur-academi-gymreig-welsh-academy-papers
Anglo-Welsh poet, writer and lecturer Nigel Jenkins was born in Gorseinon, Swansea and first came to prominence as one of the Welsh Arts Council's Three Young Anglo-Welsh Poets (the title of a 1974 collection featuring Jenkins, Tony Curtis and Duncan Bush, who were all winners of the Council's Young Poets Prize) (see August 2002 papers under heading Three Young Anglo-Welsh Poets (Welsh Arts Council, 1974) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Jenkins#Plays; see also Nigel Jenkins Papers in the National Library of Wales's collections).
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- Jenkins, Nigel, 1949-2014 (Subject)
- Academi Gymreig (Subject)