Gwenallt MSS,

Papers, [1960s]-1982, of David James Jones (Gwenallt), comprising autograph and typescript drafts of Ffwrneisiau - Cronicl Blynyddoedd Mebyd (Llandysul, 1982), with some related material.

David James Jones (Gwenallt), poet and writer, was born and brought up in the Swansea Valley. The industrial environment of his early childhood informed Gwenallt's unfinished autobiographical novel Ffwrneisiau, published posthumously in 1982.

Arranged according to NLW MSS reference numbers: NLW MSS 22054-22060.

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Mrs Nel Gwenallt, widow of Gwenallt; Aberystwyth; Purchase; 1984

David James Jones (Gwenallt), poet and writer, was born and brought up in the Swansea Valley. The industrial environment of his early childhood informed Gwenallt's unfinished autobiographical novel Ffwrneisiau, published posthumously in 1982.

Title based on contents.

The descriptions are also available, together with a detailed list of contents, in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume VIII (Aberystwyth, 1999).

February 2005 and July 2009.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS, and revised by Bethan Ifans. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume VIII (Aberystwyth, 1999); Cydymaith i Lenyddiaeth Cymru (Llandysul, 1986);

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Photocopies, typescript and proof copies included in this purchase are now NLW ex 702; see also NLW, Papurau Gwenallt.

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