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Childhood & Swansea Years

“To begin at the beginning…” “The memories of childhood have no order, and no end.” It is 27th of October 1914, and Dylan Marlais Thomas is born into an ugly, lovely town…crawling, sprawling by a…  

Swansea Intermediate School Exercise Book

Swansea Intermediate School exercise book belonging to Dylan Thomas, and labelled 'D.M. Thomas IV A Physics'. D2/1 Casgliad Jeff Towns Collection © Digital reproductions of manuscripts used…  

Daniel Jones' Exercise Book (p. 1)

A Swansea Intermediate School exercise book belonging to Daniel Jones with an unpulished poem amongst his notes, in the hand of Dylan Thomas. E1/1/2 Casgliad Jeff Towns Collection © Digital…  

Daniel Jones' Exercise Book (p. 2)

A Swansea Intermediate School exercise book belonging to Daniel Jones with an unpulished poem amongst his notes, in the hand of Dylan Thomas. E1/1/2 Casgliad Jeff Towns Collection © Digital…  

Exercise Book Stanza

Page of a ruled exercise book containing the first of three stanzas by Dylan Thomas. It appears that this particular poem, 'Oblique epern of paper's cellar-fern', is unpublished and unrecorded. …  

Exercise Book Stanza (no. 2)

Page from a ruled exercise book containing the second of three stanzas by Dylan Thomas. E1/1/1 Casgliad Jeff Towns Collection © Digital reproductions of manuscripts used with the permission of…  

Exercise Book Stanza (no. 3)

Page from a ruled exercise book containing the third of three stanzas by Dylan Thomas. E1/1/1 Casgliad Jeff Towns Collection © Digital reproductions of manuscripts used with the permission of…  

Untitled Limerick

An untitled limerick by Dylan Thomas about his friend Daniel Jones, with a selection of rhyming words noted at the top of the page. E1/1/3 Casgliad Jeff Towns Collection © Digital reproductions…  

An Original Poem

An original poem of two stanzas signed by Dylan M Thomas. It was written at Hendre Farm, Pembrokeshire in 1930, when Dylan was just sixteen years old. MS 12043B © Digital reproductions of…  

Letter to Charles Fisher, 16 March 1938

Letter dated 16 March 1938 from Dylan to Charles Fisher. In it he mentions the rest of the Kardomah gang, a group of writers, musicians and artists who would often meet at the Kardomah Cafe in…  

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