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A letter and xeroxed extracts and articles on the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Programme of summer courses at Coleg Harlech. See also no. 450.

Signed copy of John Hadfield (ed.), A Suffolk Garland for The Queen (East Suffolk County Council, 1961), containing an article, 'Suffolk Folklore'.

A talk or article entitled 'Books on the Countryside, Chosen by George Ewart Evans', as examples of literature which influenced his thought or assisted his research into dialect and rural life.

Roll (facsimile) containing an account of Wymondham [Norfolk], dated 1385/6. Facsimile estimated date 1950x1980.

Accounts ledger, 1940-87, showing income and expenses in connection with publication of books and poetry, articles, radio broadcasts, with exact dates given, and in most cases, the number of words or time of the story to be read; separate section for annual accounts, 1964-76. Loose papers (now placed in an envelope) comprise: notes and press cuttings relating to philosophy, education and writing for the media; pencil sketches; a receipt; printed version of folk songs; typed notes on eighteenth century carriage-maker's accounts.

Press cutting containing review of George Ewart Evans's Acky, published by Faber and Faber in 1973. For the publication see, for example: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1673760.Acky.

American Correspondence: 1970-80, including: a request for details of George Ewart Evans's work for inclusion in Contemporary Authors; personal letters; correspondence with Pantheon Books on the possibility of producing a book on folk-lore for the American market; his election as a Knight of Mark Twain, with two copies of a letter from Sir Winston Churchill, 1943 (440/9-10), expressing his appreciation of a gold medal awarded by the International Mark Twain Society, and a copy of the society's journal; research on folk tales (press cutting attached); and a printed leaflet.

An issue of Y Faner, 1979, containing an article by Peate; loose press article on Peate, 1981, and his obituary, 1982.

Annotated typescript list of contents of the Blaxhall tapes, 1956; a list of contributors to 'The Country Child' programme and a brief review; two press cuttings, 1967-8, on the education of working class children. See also no. 471.

Article for The Countryman: correspondence, 1986, and typescript of an article on the hill farms of South Wales, requested by Christopher Hall to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of The Countryman; a private letter used as source material for the article.

Offprint of an article in Medical History, 1983, by Dr David van Zwanenberg, consultant physician at Ipswich Hospital, entitled 'The Training and Careers of Those Apprenticed to Apothecaries in Suffolk, 1815-1858'.

Printed article by George Ewart Evans titled 'Aspects of Oral Tradition'. [?Early 1970s: no footnote cites a work later than 1968.]

Printed article by George Ewart Evans titled 'A note on the anecdote', taken from Lore and Language, the journal of the Survey of Language and Folklore at the University of Sheffield. Source of article noted on first page in George Ewart Evans's hand. Undated.

Two copies of an article, [1971], by George Ewart Evans titled 'The Relevance of Oral Tradition', taken from unspecified printed source but identified in a footnote as the 'Presidential Address delivered to Section H (Anthropology) on 6 September 1971 at the Swansea Meeting of the British Association'. One copy of the article is inscribed by George Ewart Evans: 'I Jim a Nesta: gyda phob dymuniad da. [signed] George. 20.viij.71', i.e. Dr James Arthur (Jim) Davies, Principal of the Normal College, Bangor, and his wife Nesta, close friends of George Ewart Evans. Alongside footnote, also in Evans's hand and also, presumably, addressed to Dr Jim Davies and Nesta Davies, is the additional note: 'Please keep close till then [i.e. 6 September 1971, which has been underlined]. G'. The other copy of the article is inscribed, also by George Ewart Evans: 'I Gwen: gyda chofion gorau. Ewart' (date in footnote underlined here also, presumably by Evans); the correspondent being Gwen Yorath of Earl Soham, Suffolk, a friend of George Ewart and Florence Evans (see under heading Correspondence: General correspondence of George Ewart Evans).