Commemorative Dylan Thomas First Day Cover
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The birthplace and childhood home of Dylan Thomas launched a First Day Cover on Tuesday 25th March 2014 featuring a new Dylan Thomas First Class stamp from the Remarkable Lives series which went on sale at the same time.
Dylan was a prolific letter writer and most of his early surviving letters were written in his tiny bedroom at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive in the Uplands, Swansea and posted in a Royal Mail box just fifty yards from the house.
The First Day Cover features images of the house and the desk in his bedroom which has been dubbed Wales’ first World Literary Heritage Site.
Geoff Haden who has restored the house to its condition as a new house when bought by the Thomas family in 1914 a few months before Dylan was born in the front bedroom explains “Dylan’s letters to friends and literary people give a huge insight into his life as a developing poet and writer and may of them are long and almost like short stories in themselves.
“In fact, it was the description in many of his surviving letters that has helped us set the room at a time when he published his first book 18 Poems to critical acclaim when he was only nineteen years old.“
Inside the First Day Cover is a leaflet giving details of Dylan’s life and the works produced at the house which amounted to two thirds of his published work making it the single most important place in his life.
Dylan was a prolific letter writer and most of his early surviving letters were written in his tiny bedroom at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive in the Uplands, Swansea and posted in a Royal Mail box just fifty yards from the house.
The First Day Cover features images of the house and the desk in his bedroom which has been dubbed Wales’ first World Literary Heritage Site.
Geoff Haden who has restored the house to its condition as a new house when bought by the Thomas family in 1914 a few months before Dylan was born in the front bedroom explains “Dylan’s letters to friends and literary people give a huge insight into his life as a developing poet and writer and may of them are long and almost like short stories in themselves.
“In fact, it was the description in many of his surviving letters that has helped us set the room at a time when he published his first book 18 Poems to critical acclaim when he was only nineteen years old.“
Inside the First Day Cover is a leaflet giving details of Dylan’s life and the works produced at the house which amounted to two thirds of his published work making it the single most important place in his life.