Canu'r Carchar

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

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 13692A
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004217330
      (alternative) (WlAbNL)0000217330
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1940
  • Physical Description
    • ii, 206 ff. ; 115 x 165 mm.
      Red buckram.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Autograph sonnets and other poems composed during T. E. Nicholas's incarceration in Swansea and Brixton prisons, 11 July-22 Oct. 1940; there is also a short, typewritten preface to the collection by the author.

Note

Most of the poems contained here were later published in Llygad y Drws: Sonedau'r Carchar (Aberystwyth, 1940) and Canu'r Carchar (Llandysul, 1942).

Preferred citation: NLW MS 13692A

Alternative Form Available

Online version available on the Library’s website: https://www.llgc.org.uk/discover/digital-gallery/manuscripts/modern-period/t-e-nicholas/ (viewed July 2016)

Related Material

For the background to Nicholas's imprisonment and an English translation of the prison sonnets, refer to the Islwyn Nicholas Collection donated to NLW in 1980-1981 (Annual Report (1980-1981), p. 52.

Additional Information

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