Vernon Watkins, 'Fidelities'

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

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 20787E.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls005716289
      (alternative) ISYSARCHB39
  • Dates of Creation
    • [c. 1968]
  • Physical Description
    • ii, 505 ff.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Cuttings from magazines, fair typescript copies, fair and worked typescript and autograph drafts of the poems collected in Fidelities (London, 1968). All but one of the poems in the volume are represented, by numbers of drafts up to twenty. Also included are drafts of the preliminaries of the volume (ff. 4-9) and a letter from Gwen Watkins (f. 3) concerning these papers. Drafts of a few poems in 'Fidelities' are among the Vernon Watkins Papers in the British Museum, as Mrs Watkins's letter explains. A contents list shows the number of drafts of each poem, as well as locating them. Some of the drafts are dated. There are five short poems not included in 'Fidelities', cf. contents list.

Note

Preferred citation: NLW MS 20787E.

Formerly Welsh Arts Council MSS 30 & 37, see note on f.i.

Additional Information

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