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Thomas, Dylan, (1914-1953), poet and dramatist

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Surname: Thomas
Forenames: Dylan
Gender: Male
Date: 1914-1953
Places:
  • Swansea, Glamorgan
Biography: ODNB link for Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953) poet and prose writer
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P127903 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P28224 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Dylan Thomas
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
literary papers
State University of New York: Buffalo State College
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
2
1935-1965: literary ms, corresp
New York Public Library: Manuscripts and Archives Division
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
3
literary papers
Ohio University Library
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
4
literary papers
University of Delaware Library
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
5
c1934: notebook
Swansea University: Richard Burton Archives
See Annual Return 2014
6
c1940: drafts of 'Unluckily for a Death' and 'Into Her Lying Down Head'
Swansea University: Richard Burton Archives
See Annual Return 2016
7
1936-54: corresp, poems and papers (c150 items)
Harvard University: Houghton Library
NRA 20129 Harvard Univ MSS

See NUC MS 81-649
8
1920-1991: literary ms, corresp, notebooks, drawings, financial records, photographs, proofs, and broadcast scripts
University of Texas at Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library
NRA 19861 Univ of Texas papers
9
1925-2013: additional papers incl family corresp, scripts, programmes, papers rel to the publication and productions of 'Under Milk Wood' and poetry manuscripts incl 'Elegy', 'In country heaven' and 'Poem on his Birthday' collected by Jeff Towns, antiquarian bookseller based in Swansea
National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services
See Jeff Towns (Dylan Thomas) Collection, Annual Return 2008, 2010
10
1930-34: letters (11) to Percy Eynon Smart, a schoolfriend
National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services
See Annual Report 1992-93 p58
11
1935-40: letters to Desmond Hawkins
National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services
See Annual Return 1997
12
1935-53: letters
University of Victoria: McPherson Library
See Union list of MSS in Canadian repositories , suppl 1976
13
1936-52: letters (70) to Vernon Watkins
British Library, Manuscript Collections
14
papers from his estate incl corresp rel to his final trip to New York, and a unique manuscript map of Llareggub
National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services
See Annual Return 2004
15
ms of radio broadcast 'The Outing'
West Glamorgan Archive Service
See Accession return 2001
16
a manuscript letter from Dylan Thomas to Graham Greene, and a typescript of an annotated poem fragment "Into her lying-down head" by Thomas
National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services
See Annual Return 2009
17
holograph manuscript notes for the poem to his father entitled "Elegy" by Thomas
National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services
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