Manuscript and typescript collection of drafts of poems and prose with letters

Item author: David Jones
Item date: not given
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 120,000
Item date acquired: 1985
Item institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion

530 autograph sheets and 260 typescript sheets of drafts of poems for The Anathemata; 1000 autograph sheets of poetry for The Roman Quarry; over 6,500 autograph sheets of drafts for prose works and letters; also some 1500 letters addressed to him. This collection, together with the small group pf papers bought by the library in 1978 forms Joness entire archive