Item 467/1-160. - Correspondence relating to various topics: thanks for tape recordings; BBC radio and television features; appreciation of Suffolk books, etc.

Correspondence, 1965-82, relating to a wide variety of topics: thanks for tape recordings; BBC radio and television features; appreciation of the Suffolk books; dialect, folk life, relevant articles and reference works; invitation to become president of the anthropology section of the British Association, 1969, (467/6); interest in the preparation of material for The Leaping Hare; publication of Peate's own works on folk life, The Welsh House, George Ewart Evans's reader's report on this book, and Welsh Clock and Watch Makers; Peate's career, including his work at the Welsh Folk Museum, St Fagans, his honorary DLitt from the University of Wales, Swansea, 1970, his retirement and presentation of a painting by Kyffin Williams, 1971, his work as a lecturer after retirement; recording oral history; recommendations to the University of Wales to bestow an honorary degree on George Ewart Evans, 1971 (467/11 and 467/15); possibility of Evans returning to live in Wales, 1971-2; effects of the miners' strike, 1972; Welsh grammar; possibility of publishing letters by John Cowper Powys, 1972-4; linguistics; reviews; conferences, visits and meetings; Welsh Arts Council Awards, 1973, 1975-6, and the Cymmrodorion medal, 1978; Peate's view on the establishment of a Welsh Language Council, 1973; mutual acquaintances and friends; Peate's autobiographical details, especially his attitude to the oral tradition, dialect and folk life, 1973 (467/57); deaths of his brother and son, 1974, 1980, and of George Ewart Evans's mother, 1975 (467/95); praise and correction of George Ewart Evans's letters written in Welsh, 1975-6; personal life, including eyesight problems, 1977-9, and an interest in gardening; George Ewart Evans's honorary doctorate from the University of Essex, 1982 (467/158).