Poems by Margiad Evans,

A collection of holograph poems, 1953-1956, by Peggy Eileen Whistler ('Margiad Evans'), including 'The Country Churchyard' (1955) (f. 3), 'God's Love' (1953) (f. 4), 'Autumn' ([1956]) (f. 5), 'Bather' ([1953]) (f. 7), 'The Old Name' ([1953]) (f. 8), and 'Cherry Orchard in Bloom' (f. 9).
Other fragments, also in Whistler's hand, include a page of an original play 'Dear Desdemona' (f. 10) [cf. NLW MS 23373E & NLW, Margiad Evans MS 29], and an excerpt from the second part of her unfinished 'Widower's Tale' (ff. 11-14).

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Bloomsbury Book Auctions (Harry and Virginia Walton sale); London; Purchased at auction, lot 274; 14 May 2009; 004659119.

Title based on contents.

Originally kept in blue folder (not retained), labled 'M.S. POEMS Margiad Evans', and numbered 'A-1651'.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 23994F.

October 2009.

Description compiled by Maredudd ap Huw;

Usual copyright laws apply. Information regarding ownership of Margiad Evans copyright can be found at http://tyler.hrc.utexas.edu/ (viewed October 2009).

Also included is a letter, [1958] from Whistler to Dorothy Hancox of Cheltenham enclosing manuscript poems (f. 2), and an invoice from Hancox's bookdealer husband, Alan, 22 July 1958, selling this collection to Harry Walton of Covington, Virginia (f. 1).

For another manuscript with the same provenance, see NLW MS 23997D. A collection of letters from Whistler to Alan and Dorothy Hancox, 1954-6, is now NLW MS 22432D.

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