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Copies of printed material on Glastonbury, Bensington Manor, Drake's Drum; history of art notebook; file of papers relating to extra-mural teaching; folders of maps, pedigrees and notes, mostly Cornwall and West Country; folders of offprints and drafts of articles and lectures with related correspondence, mostly on Arthurian topics, with special reference to Cornwall, Brittany and onomastics. Correspondents include: Leslie Alcock (2 lrs., 1968), Sir Tufton Beamish (2 lrs., 1966), Sir Basil Blackwell (2 lrs., 1970-9), Rachel Bromwich (5 lrs., 1966-76), Theo Brown (3 lrs., 1966), Nora Chadwick (3 lrs., 1958-63), Armel Diverres (2 lrs., 1968), A.W. Wade Evans (2 lrs., 1957-8), A.O.H. Jarman (1 lr., 1968), Dominica Legge (5 lrs., 1966-72), C.S. Lewis (1 lr., 1958), Roger S. Loumis (3 lrs., 1963-4), C.A. Ralegh Radford (8 lrs., 1955-71), R. J. Thomas (1 lr., 1968), Lewis Thorpe (17 lrs., 1958-69), William Urry (1 lr., 1968), Sir Mortimer Wheeler (1 lr., 1966), Professor Mary Williams (4 lrs., 1961-9).

Research papers of E. M. R. Ditmas, 1919-1980, including material on art history and on folklore, 1919-1980; bibliographical, topographical, personal and subject indexes on Arthurian and mediaeval studies; papers relating to the International Arthurian Society; typescript drafts of studies of the Tristan legend and Geoffrey of Monmouth, [1960s], and correspondence concerning their publication, 1960-1972.

Metal box file containing offprints, notes and drafts of research papers and related correspondence; papers concerning the International Arthurian Society, 1978-1979; correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the work of Aslib with special reference to the donor's contribution, 1933-1979.

November 1983 donation: Typescripts and offprints of research articles and lectures, mainly relating to Arthurian legends, 1969-1976; manuscript and typescript verse and short stories, and draft of an unpublished novel, 'Merlin and the Four Queens', 1914-1970; six issues of a manuscript magazine, Bedford Pie, edited by Miss Ditmas, 1915-1916.

Photocopies or primary and secondary material, mainly on Glastonbury, mediaeval chronicles, Arthurian topics, history and topography, with special reference to Cornwall and S.W. England. Papers of conferences of the International Arthurian Society, 1963, 1966-1969, 1971-1975; papers of Fifth International Congress of Celtic Studies, 1975.

Photograph albums with family and autobiographical notes, 1869-c.1945; pocket diaries, 1940, 1946, memorabilia of foreign travel, 1962-1972; miscellaneous personal records, 1931-1951; notes on Arthurian topics and local history; an incomplete typescript draft of a novel, Merlin and the Four Queens.

Typescript drafts of studies of the Tristan legend and Geoffrey of Monmouth, together with correspondence concerning their proposed publication, 1960-1972; correspondents include Professors James Carney, Norman Davis, James Delargy and Mary Williams. Files of miscellaneous notes on Oxfordshire local history and on Arthurian and mediaeval studies, with special reference to Glastonbury and the Grail. January 1983 donation: Notes, typescripts and photocopies of secondary material, mainly relating to Celtic saints, history and onomastics with special reference to Cornwall and Wales, Arthurian traditions and folklore, together with related maps and bibliographical references, [1919 x 1980]. August 1983 donation: A copy of Miss Ditmas's A History of Benson (1983).