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Recollections of local (named) characters, regarding customs associated with Blaxhall Ship Fair Day, sheep shearing, village families and childhood.

Typed inventory of miscellaneous implements, instruments, pictures and archaeological finds, with the names of their owners [? possibly for the Blaxhall exhibition].

Typescript copy of the Rector's address at the funeral of Raymond Wilfrid Cordy Keer, who died on 15 April 1966.

Press cuttings: a page from the Ipswich Journal, Nov. 1894, in an envelope covered with the author's notes; an envelope containing articles (one dated 1912) about the Ashburnham family; miscellaneous cuttings, 1949-67, relating to prehistory, archaeology, local history, place-names, early agricultural machinery, rural crafts, Iorwerth Peate on the preservation of small communities (The Times, 2 September 1958), the Phoenix Trust, regional cultures, architecture, literature, attitudes to and techniques for interviewing, sociology, folklore, changes in rural communities, study of Scottish culture, the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, cookery and dialect.

Printed leaflets, c. 1914; certificates of exemption, volunteer service and medical examination, 1916-18, belonging to Caleb Howe, a Suffolk farm foreman.

Envelope containing notes and press cutting, 1964, on the role of the constable and village lock-up; transcript of an epigram on a parish priest; short story about a poacher, in the Suffolk dialect; three photographs of miscellaneous seventeenth century documents; and a printed copy of Gentleman's Grocer and Draper Shooting Account.

Manuscript and typescript notes, press cuttings and other printed material relating to bell ringing, horses, rural life and traditions, folk tales, dialect, domestic architecture (including rubbings and sketches of merchants' marks), Herman Biddell, a Suffolk horse breeder, extracts from reference works and a paper on the horse in agriculture.

Suggestions and treatment for Welsh film, 1956, Blaxhall film, 1957, and rural crafts film.

General correspondence, 1966, relating to a [film] order and tape recording of a programme.

Notes for lectures and conferences presented between 1969 and 1980, covering the topics of oral history and techniques for recording it, folk-life and lore, the South Wales miners, horse brasses, George Ewart Evans's own life as a writer; and a printed programme for a family history course, 1984.

Extracts from reference works in connection with village communities, philosophy and horses; letter and article on shepherds from Country Life, Christmas 1974; press cutting, 1984, and a draft letter by George Ewart Evans relating to financial cuts in the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies at Leeds University.

Items originally contained in a file labelled 'British Association and Other Talks', two amended typescript drafts, some handwritten notes and the final version of a lecture entitled 'Anthropology and Oral History', presented at the centenary meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at the University of East Anglia in September 1984, accompanied by notes on the development of the anthropology section of the British Association; and a programme and notices in English and Welsh, advertising forthcoming lectures by George Ewart Evans in 1984.

'The Old Rural Community', transcripts of a series of interviews with the older [named] residents of the village, dated June 1964 - January 1965.

A group apparently being a continuation of 392 above, originally contained in a file labelled 'Tape Transcripts', notes entitled 'Blaxhall Recordings (Eight Tapes)', on the character of the village and its inhabitants; interviews with some of the older people, entitled 'Sam Friend, Framsden' (June 1967), 'Charles Kindred in Albert Love's tape' (June 1969), 'Albert Love' (November 1968), 'Alice Peters', 'John Richard's Tapes: Bill Scoggins and Prentice Lane', 'C. Rookyard', 'George Sadler'; recollections of childhood games and fishing activities; various folk poems, counting rhyme and song. Notes on miscellaneous subjects, including George Ewart Evans's own dreams (1967), a reference work relating to maritime industries and customs, sheep grazing rights, and the significance of certain objects in agriculture. Press cuttings, 1963-78, relating to primitive agriculture, export of old-fashioned flat irons, and blizzards in Wales.