Sketchbooks

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

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 21520B.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls005014503
      (alternative) ISYSARCHB50
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1964]
  • Physical Description
    • 339 ff.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Sketchbooks of Brenda Chamberlain comprising: leaves from three sketch pads containing Greek material including drafts of poems, sketches and 'automatic drawings', [1964] (MS 39; 37 ff.); a sketchbook, [Summer 1964], containing some Greek material in prose and ballpoint sketches, notably of a dancer (Rovertos Saragas) dancing, with a note on these particular sketches on ff. 41-45 (MS 40; 64 ff.); three notebooks containing 'automatic drawings' in ballpoint, drawn while listening to the music of Halim El-Dabh, played by the composer, in Ydra. and Athens, October 1964 (MS 41; 117 ff.); and Xerox copies of the three notebooks in MS 41 with a few explanatory notes by Chamberlain, together with two drafts of a letter written by Chamberlain to Isabel Hitchman of the Welsh Arts Council (cf. NLW MS 21524E) explaining the drawings (MS 42; 121 ff.).

Note

Preferred citation: NLW MS 21520B.

Title based on contents.

Previously Brenda Chamberlain MSS 39-42.

Additional Information

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