Thomas (Dylan), Collection on
The Collection on Dylan Thomas contains five holograph poetry notebooks (1930-1951); a prose notebook of ten short stories (1933-1934); holograph and typed manuscripts, many with corrections, for such works as The Doctor and the Devils (1953); a film script of Life in a Girl’s Reform School; corrected or fragmentary versions of over a dozen individual poems including "Do not go gentle into that good night," "Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait," and "Fern Hill"; approximately 81 items of correspondence including Thomas’s letters to Henry Treece, Trevor Hughes, Donald Taylor, and Pamela Hansford Johnson (Lady Snow); three of Pamela Hansford Johnson's (Lady Snow) diaries, 1933-1935; and two 1953 portraits of Thomas painted by Gordon Stuart.
Born in Wales, Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) was one of the most influential English poets of the twentieth century and also the author of numerous short stories, radio scripts, and plays. His publications include The Map of Love (1939), Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (1940), Deaths and Entrances (1946), Collected Poems, 1934-1952 (1952), The Doctor and the Devils (1953), and Under Milk Wood (1954).