Rev. B. G. Rees papers

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 24059E.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls006741842
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1935-1945
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 127 ff.
      Placed in melinex sleeves within ringed box at NLW.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Papers, 1935-1945, of the Rev. B. George Rees, Curate of Llangynwyd, Maesteg (1936-38), and Laleston (1938-44), Rector of Llansannor (1944-48), and a WEA lecturer on literature at the Maesteg Unemployed Centre and elsewhere. The papers include letters, 1939-1940, from a number of authors and poets, responding to requests by Rees for their thoughts on lecture subjects such as 'Life and Literature'.
The respondents include W. H. Auden, [1939] (ff. 2-3), Winston Churchill, 17 January 1939 (f. 8), C. Day Lewis, [?1939]-1940 (ff. 10-12), Aldous Huxley, 27 March 1940 (f. 16), Glyn Jones, April 1939-February 1940 (ff. 19-27), Herbert E. Palmer, February-March 1940 (ff. 35-44), John Cowper Powys, February-March 1940 (ff. 45-47), J. B. Priestley, 10 January 1939 (f. 48), Dylan Thomas, September 1939-February 1940 (ff. 56-60), and Emlyn Williams, 8 February 1940 (f. 63); a few respondents, such as Glyn Jones (f. 25) and Dylan Thomas (ff. 59-60), supplied Rees with brief essays. Also included are notes, newspaper cuttings and other papers relating to Rees's lectures (ff. 66-91); and papers, 1935-1945, relating to his Church career, including letters and telegrams concerning his Institution at Llansannor, August-September 1944 (ff. 92-100), sermon notes (ff. 102-109), and parish magazines and pages from annual reports relating to Laleston, 1935-1944 (ff. 110-120).

Arrangement

Arranged at NLW as follows: literary correspondence; notes; cuttings; personal papers.

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Acquisition Information

Mrs Ann Griffith, niece of B. G. Rees; Chesterfield; Donation (with NLW ex 2866 and NLW Photo Album 5302D); April 2014; 006741842.

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 24059E.

Archivist's Note

October 2014.

Description compiled by Rhys Morgan Jones

Conditions Governing Use

Usual copyright laws apply.

Related Material

For signed photographs of some of the correspondents, donated with the manuscript, see NLW Photo Album 5302D; for Rees's scrap-book and W. H. Auden proofs see NLW ex 2866.

Additional Information

Published

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