Idris Davies Manuscripts (GB 0210 MSIDRDAV)

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Tabl cynnwys | Table of contents

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Gwybodaeth grynodeb | Summary information

Lleoliad | Repository: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Teitl | Title: Idris Davies manuscripts ID: GB 0210 MSIDRDAV Virtua system control vtls004271734 number [alternative]: GEAC system control (WlAbNL)0000271734 number [alternative]: Dyddiad | Date: [late 1920s]-1983 (dyddiad creu | date of creation) Disgrifiad ffisegol | 23 volumes. Physical description: Iaith | Language: English Iaith | Language: Welsh Dyddiadau creu, golygu a dileu | Dates of creation, revision and deletion: Nodyn | Note The following sources were used in the compilation of this [sourcesDescription]: description: Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume VIII (Aberystwyth, 1999); Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Volume IX (Aberystwyth, 2003); Oxford Dictionary of National Biography on-line site, viewed 12 May 2009; The Dictionary of Welsh Biography (London, 2001).

Nodyn | Note Title based on contents. [generalNote]: Nodyn | Note NLW MSS 22397B, 22402-3B, 22406-8 contain poetry unpublished [generalNote]: at the time of acquiring the papers; some have since been included in The Complete Poems of Idris Davies, ed. by Dafydd Johnston (Cardiff, 1994).

Nodyn | Note Some miscellaneous papers accumulated by the Rev. Islwyn Jenkins [generalNote]: (see NLW MS 23539E) post-date the death of Idris Davies.

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Hanes gweinyddol / Braslun bywgraffyddol | Administrative history | Biographical sketch

Nodyn | Note Idris Davies (1905-1953), poet and schoolteacher, was born in a Welsh-speaking household and community in Rhymney, Monmouthshire, but spent much of his life living and working in London. It was, however, the industrial landscape of the South Wales valleys which was to have the greatest influence on his work, in which Davies frequently denounces the grimness and desolation of the surroundings while also reflecting the idealism and protest of its people during a time of great economic, social and religious change. His first volume of poetry, Gwalia Deserta (London, 1938), written at Rhymney, took as its theme the South Wales valleys during the Depression years of the 1930s. The Angry Summer, written at Meesden in Hertfordshire and published in 1943, is considered to be Davies's finest poem. Tonypandy and Other Poems (London, 1945) was completed while Davies was teaching in Treherbert in the Rhondda valley. In 1947 Davies returned as schoolmaster to his native Rhynmney, where he continued to write, broadcast and lecture. Selected Poems (London, 1953), the last volume to be produced during Davies's lifetime, was published less than a month before the poet's death in April 1953. Some of Davies's later material appeared posthumously in The Collected Poems of Idris Davies (Llandysul, 1972).

Natur a chynnwys | Scope and content

Papers, [late 1920s]-1983, of, or relating to, Idris Davies and including drafts of his poetic anthologies Gwalia Deserta (London, 1938), The Angry Summer (London, 1943), and Tonypandy and Other Poems (London, 1945); proofs of Selected Poems (London, 1953); unpublished poems and drafts and fragments of poems, novels, short stories, etc.; lecture notes; diaries for 1938, 1940, 1946, 1948, and 1951; a typescript of his radio talk 'The valleys revisited' (broadcast 1943); and correspondence of or relating to Davies, 1933-1983.

Nodiadau | Notes

Nodiadau teitl | Title notes

Ffynhonnell | Immediate source of acquisition NLW MSS 10810-12D: Mrs E. A. Davies, Idris Davies's mother; Rhymney; Donation; September 1953. NLW MSS 22397-23415: The Rev. Islwyn Jenkins & Mr Eben Morris, Davies's cousin and brother-in- law respectively; Carmarthen and Rhymney; Donation (with NLW ex 947); 1987

Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 4 GB 0210 MSIDRDAV Idris Davies manuscripts NLW MS 23539E: Dr Jean Jenkins, widow of the Rev. Islwyn Jenkins; Carmarthen; Donation (with NLW, Rev. Islwyn Jenkins Research Papers and NLW ex 947); September 1996; A1996/121.

Trefniant | Arrangement Arranged according to NLW MSS reference numbers: NLW MSS 10810-10812D, 22397-22415, 23539E.

Cyfyngiadau ar fynediad | Restrictions on access Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions noted on the 'Modern papers - data protection' form issued with their readers' tickets.

Amodau rheoli defnydd | Conditions governing use Usual copyright laws apply. Information regarding ownership of Idris Davies copyright can be found at http://tyler.hrc.utexas.edu/ (viewed March 2016).

Rhestrau cymorth | Finding aids The descriptions are also available, together with a detailed list of contents, in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, Vol. 3 (Aberystwyth, 1961), Vol. 8 (Aberystwyth, 1999) and Vol. 9 (Aberystwyth, 2003).

Disgrifiadau deunydd | Related material See also NLW MSS 20770-20771E, 24075D, NLW ex 947, and NLW, Rev. Islwyn Jenkins Research Papers.

Nodiadau eraill | Other notes • Statws cyhoeddiad | Publication status: Published • Dynodwr sefydliad | Institution identifier: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

Pwyntiau mynediad | Access points

• Davies, Idris -- Archives. (pwnc) | (subject) • English literature -- Welsh authors -- 20th century. (pwnc) | (subject) • English poetry -- Welsh authors -- 20th century. (pwnc) | (subject)

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Llyfryddiaeth | Bibliography

These papers are frequently referred to and quoted from in Islwyn Jenkins, Idris Davies of Rhymney (Llandysul, 1986).

Disgrifiad cyfres | Series descriptions

Cod cyfeirnod | Ref Teitl | Title Dyddiadau | Statws mynediad | Cynhwysydd | code Dates Access status Container NLW MS 10810D File - Poetry of Idris Davies [late 1920s]-[? NLW MS vtls004579183 1953] 10810D. NLW MS 10811D File - Poetry of Idris Davies [late 1920s]-[? NLW MS 1953] 10811D. NLW MS 10812D File - Diary of Idris Davies, 1939-1940 [1940x1948] NLW MS vtls004579189 10812D. NLW MS 22397B File - Early verse 1928-1951 NLW MS vtls004271731 22397B; $q - (WlAbNL)0000271731 Several leaves cut out. NLW MS 22398B File - Poetry [?1929]-[?1939] NLW MS vtls004271767 22398B. (WlAbNL)0000271767 NLW MS 22399C File - Gwalia Deserta 1938 NLW MS vtls004271780 22399C. (WlAbNL)0000271780 NLW MS 22400C File - The Angry Summer 1941 NLW MS vtls004271801 22400C. (WlAbNL)0000271801 NLW MS 22401D File - Tonypandy and Other Poems 1945 NLW MS vtls004271803 22401D. (WlAbNL)0000271803 NLW MS 22402B File - Notes and poems 1942-1948 NLW MS vtls004271809 22402B. (WlAbNL)0000271809 NLW MS 22403B File - Gwalia My Song 1943-1951 NLW MS vtls004271832 22403B. (WlAbNL)0000271832 NLW MS 22404D File - Selected Poems 1953 NLW MS vtls004271833 22404D. (WlAbNL)0000271833 NLW MS 22405B File - Selected Poems 1953 NLW MS vtls004271836 22405B. (WlAbNL)0000271836 NLW MS 22406A File - Epigrams [1947x1948] NLW MS vtls004271839 22406A. (WlAbNL)0000271839

Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales Tudalen | Page 6 GB 0210 MSIDRDAV Idris Davies manuscripts NLW MS 22407D File - Poems [?1936]-[?1951] NLW MS vtls004271842 22407D. (WlAbNL)0000271842 NLW MS 22408C File - Poems [?1932]-1953 NLW MS vtls004271846 22408C. (WlAbNL)0000271846 NLW MS 22409C File - Collier Boy, &c. [c. 1936] NLW MS vtls004271876 22409C. (WlAbNL)0000271876 NLW MS 22410C File - Draft novel, &c. 1933-[c. 1944] NLW MS vtls004271899 22410C. (WlAbNL)0000271899 NLW MS 22411C File - Lecture notes, &c. [?1933]-[?1951] NLW MS vtls004272105 22411C. (WlAbNL)0000272105 NLW MS 22412C File - Miscellaneous prose [1930s]-[1940s] NLW MS vtls004272129 22412C. (WlAbNL)0000272129 NLW MS 22413E File - Radio scripts 1940-1951 NLW MS vtls004272178 22413E. (WlAbNL)0000272178 NLW MS 22414C File - Diaries 1938-1951 NLW MS vtls004272201 22414C. (WlAbNL)0000272201 NLW MS 22415C File - Letters to Idris Davies 1933-1953 NLW MS (WlAbNL)0000272228 22415C. NLW MS 23539E File - Miscellaneous papers 1935-1983 NLW MS (WLABNL)P1Saan0000013234 23539E. (WlAbNL)0000017669

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