Thomas, Dylan.

the first enclosing two poems for possible broadcast on the BBC, expressing concern about reading both ("...they're very much alike in feeling and would give a monotonous effect - even if a reader read one of them and I the other...I suggest that only Poem In October is selected..."), the second inviting Arlott to lunch and admitting he had already told the host, his patron Margaret Taylor, that Arlott would attend, also mentioning that "I hope you get this note before you go Test-wards", 3 pages, 8vo, 39 Markham Square, London, and Holywell Ford, Oxford, [1945?] to 22 July 1946

John Arlott; the sale of his library, Christie's, South Kensington, 11 September 1992, lot 142

Thomas discussing broadcasting one of his most popular poems, 'Poem in October', first published in Horizon in February 1945, with his friend John Arlott, then producer of Book of Verse on the BBC Home Service. As Arlott later recalled, they worked together "some twenty or thirty times a year from 1945 to 1950" and he found Thomas "the perfect touchstone for a producer". These are thought to be the only surviving letters from Thomas to Arlott, the latter having destroyed the others out of concern that they showed the poet in an unfavourable light.