Editing Dylan Thomas (section)

====...and back to Laugharne====
A month later, in May 1949, Thomas and his family moved to his final home, the [[Dylan Thomas Boathouse|Boat House]] at Laugharne, purchased for him at a cost of £2,500 in April 1949 by Margaret Taylor.{{sfnp|Ferris|1989|p=239}} Thomas acquired a garage a hundred yards from the house on a cliff ledge which he turned into his writing shed, and where he wrote several of his most acclaimed poems.<ref name="Writing shed">{{cite web|url=http://www.dylanthomasboathouse.com/english/boathouse/shed.html|title=The Writing Shed|access-date=25 July 2012|work=dylanthomasboathouse.com|archive-date=21 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921013124/http://www.dylanthomasboathouse.com/english/boathouse/shed.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> He also rented "Pelican House" opposite his regular drinking den, [[Brown's Hotel (Laugharne)|Brown's Hotel]], for his parents{{sfnp|Ferris|1989|p=240}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/nature/sites/walking/pages/sw_laugharne.shtml|title=Laugharne|access-date=27 July 2012|publisher=BBC}}</ref> who lived there from 1949 until 1953.

Caitlin gave birth to their third child, a boy named Colm Garan Hart, on 25 July 1949.{{sfnp|Thomas|Tremlett|1986|p=112}}

In October, the New Zealand poet, [[Allen Curnow]], came to visit Thomas at the Boat House, who took him to his writing shed and "fished out a draft to show me of the unfinished ''Under Milk Wood''" that was, says Curnow, titled ''The Town That Was Mad''.<ref>Curnow, A. (1982) "Images of Dylan" in the ''NZ Listener'', 18 December.</ref> This is the first known sighting of the script of the play that was to become ''Under Milk Wood''.<ref>For more on this, see {{harvp|Thomas|2004|loc="The Birth of Under Milk Wood"|p=297}}.</ref>