Dylan Thomas letters top Desmond Hawkins

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

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 23529C.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004656173
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1935-1940
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 41 ff.
      Fasciculed.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Thirty-three autograph and typescript letters, 1935-40, from Dylan Thomas to the novelist, critic and broadcaster Desmond Hawkins, containing personal news and comments on his literary work, including a detailed response (ff. 25-9) to Hawkins's questions about poems included in The Map of Love (London, 1939). Two sketches pasted on to ff. 18 and 19 do not appear to be Thomas's work. The letters were published in Ferris, Paul (ed.): The Collected Letters of Dylan Thomas (London, 1985).

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Sotheby's; London; Purchased at auction, lot 296; 11 July 1996

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 23529C.

Other Finding Aids

The contents are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 9 (Aberystwyth, 2003).

Archivist's Note

May 2009.

Description compiled by Bethan Ifans for the retrospective conversion project of NLW MSS.

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Additional Information

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