Enoch Rees papers,

Papers of Enoch Rees of Maesteg, Glamorgan, comprising cyclostyled stage, musical radio plays, [1940]-[?late 1940s]; copies of published works, [1940s]; miscellaneous papers, including Lord Chamberlain's licences for the performance of plays and programmes, 1941-1945; and biographical and family papers, 1957-1969.

Enoch Rees (Enoch Howell Rees), of Maesteg, Glamorgan, was born in 1888 in Llandysul, Cardiganshire. He became an engineer and in 1911 emigrated to New Zealand. In 1914, he joined the New Zealand expedition force where he served in West Africa and France. He was injured and moved to Maesteg, where he formed the firm of Rees & Williams. In the 1940s he published several short stories in the Glamorgan Advertiser (later issued as books), and the short novel Witched Waters (Arthur J. Stockwell Ltd, 1943). He also wrote a large number of stage and radio plays in the 1940s, including Dark o' the Moon which was the basis for the light opera Gwyneth (published 1943), with music by Dr Haydn Morris and lyrics by 'Caerwyn'. In 1957-1958, he was President of the Welsh Rugby Union.

Arranged into the following groups: plays; published works; and miscellaneous papers.

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Donated by his daughter-in-law, Mrs Betty Rees, Swansea, December 1987 and January 1988.

Enoch Rees (Enoch Howell Rees), of Maesteg, Glamorgan, was born in 1888 in Llandysul, Cardiganshire. He became an engineer and in 1911 emigrated to New Zealand. In 1914, he joined the New Zealand expedition force where he served in West Africa and France. He was injured and moved to Maesteg, where he formed the firm of Rees & Williams. In the 1940s he published several short stories in the Glamorgan Advertiser (later issued as books), and the short novel Witched Waters (Arthur J. Stockwell Ltd, 1943). He also wrote a large number of stage and radio plays in the 1940s, including Dark o' the Moon which was the basis for the light opera Gwyneth (published 1943), with music by Dr Haydn Morris and lyrics by 'Caerwyn'. In 1957-1958, he was President of the Welsh Rugby Union.

Title supplied from contents of fonds. The archive includes obituaries of Rees published after his death.

A hard copy of the catalogue is available in Minor Lists and Summaries 1988, pp. 60-62, at the National Library of Wales.

May 2003

Compiled by Seri Crawley for the ANW Project. The following sources were consulted in the compilation of this description: NLW, Minor Lists and Summaries 1988; NLW, W. W. Price Biographical Index (unpublished), Vol. XXII. There is another Enoch Rees, from Ogmore, Glamorgan, who published novels in the the 1940s, including Whose Sun Is It? and This House Thy Refuge, published by Kobold Knight, London.

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