Report from Ibookcollector
Dylan Thomas's last unfinished poem has been given a permanent home at the National Library of Wales after being bought from a collector.
Elegy was bought as part of a collection of Thomas's work.
It was written during his time in America, just a few years before his death in 1953.
The National Librarian Andrew Green said: "This collection of work gives us an insight into how Dylan Thomas worked as a poet."
The manuscript for Elegy is said to be a "very early draft".
The collection also includes an extensive word-list for Poem on His Birthday, first published in World Review in 1951, and some of his very early poems, such as A Refusal to Mourn the Death by Fire of a Child in London.
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