Poetry by various authors,

Drafts of 'The Frenchmaster' and 'Before sleep' by Dannie Abse (the former pub. in Poems, Golders Green (London, 1962)) (ff. 1-11); Draft of 'Winter' by A. G. Prys-Jones (ff. 12-13); Drafts of 'With the sea's volubility' and 'Cwmchwefri Rocks' (both pub. in The Beast at the Door (London, 1963)) and 'Disorderly Spring' (pub. in The Colour of Cockcrowing (London, 1966)) by T. H. Jones (ff. 14-19); Three drafts, autograph and typescript, of 'Freshwater West revisited' by Roland Mathias (pub. in Absalom in the Tree (Llandysul, 1971)) (ff. 20-22); 'Kismet' by Huw Menai (f. 23); Twenty poems, mostly uncollected, by Huw Menai. Fair holograph copies. Originally loose leaves mostly dated by decade on the dorse probably by the author recently (1968), [1920s]-[1950s] (ff. 24-46); Draft of sections III and IV of 'Indian Day' (pub. in Ha Ha Among the Trumpets (London, 1945)) and rough and fair drafts of an apparently unpublished poem 'In the days when I could choose', of 20 lines, by Alun Lewis (ff. 47-48); Fair draft of 'Ponies, Twynyrodyn', dated 1965 by Meic Stephens (pub. in Welsh Voices, ed. by Bryn Griffiths (London, 1967)) (ff. 49-50); Fair holograph copies of 'The stone Face', 'Thanks in winter' and 'For T. H. J.' by Harri Webb (all pub. in The Green Desert (Llandysul, 1969)) (ff. 51-54); Fair copy of a sonnet 'Y Wyddfa / The Tomb' by John Cowper Powys, 1954 (f. 55); Fair copy of 'A woman to a man' by Dannie Abse (pub. in Poems Golders Green (London, 1962)) (f. 56); Fair copy of 'Feathers', beginning 'I stoop to gather a seabird's feather' by Vernon Watkins, probably late, not published in any of VW's collections (f. 57).

Preferred citation: NLW MS 20782E.

Formerly Welsh Arts Council MSS 10-14, 26-28, 66-67.

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