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Items originally contained in a file entitled 'Talks on Oral Tradition and Oral History', typed and handwritten notes for lectures presented to universities, historical societies and conferences between 1970 and 1982, on the subjects of oral tradition and history, and techniques for collecting oral evidence, East Anglian farming customs and implements, the rural working classes in the nineteenth century, attitudes to work, status and dress linked with occupation, decline of rural culture, study of communities in Wales and England; occasional related correspondence; programmes for oral history courses; notes on Richard Gough and his History of Myddle.

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.

Typescript film sequences, treatment and filming schedule, 1979, for a programme on Blaxhall in a BBC television series, 'Writers and Places'; correspondence from John Archer at the BBC, July 1979-May 1980, relating to preparation and showing of the film; other, personal correspondence following its showing on television, 1 April 1980, including letters from Adrian Bell (409/17), Graeme [Fife] (409/30), Raphael Salaman (409/44), David [Thomson] (409/47); press cuttings advertising the programme; a printed pamphlet for St Peter's - Blaxhall Flower Festival, 1979; miscellaneous correspondence, March-May 1980, relating to a book illustration, possible establishment of local museums, publishing and personal acquaintances.

Foreign journal dated 1983, with the name of George Ewart Evans included in a list on the fly-leaf.

[?1972], From Dafydd [Thomas], on various subjects, including: recollections of a stay in Suffolk and George Ewart Evans's visit to see him; news of friends; request for Faber books; mention of Charles Parker films; humour; a BBC radio broadcast, leading to reminiscences of schooldays in Ynysybwl; dialect; contemporary situation in the Middle East; an invitation to visit him in Welshpool; and his disability [due to a stroke].

1945-50 (With several undated), from Glyn Jones, regarding an invitation to submit poetry for an Anglo-Welsh anthology edited by Henry Treece; appreciation of The Voices of the Children; personal visits and family; his own life as a teacher in a South Wales school and his writing; contemporary Welsh literature, with frequent references to other writers, including William Glynne [Jones] (passim) and Dylan Thomas, 1947-50 (455/10, 455/12 455/26-7, 455/29); womens' writings; George Ewart Evans's departure from teaching and the appointment of his wife as village schoolmistress [at Blaxhall], 1948 (455/20); radio broadcasts, reviews and articles; the publishing work of Keidrych Rhys, with his assistant, Harry Webb, 1949 (455/27); publication of George Ewart Evans's short stories; encouragement to attempt a change of direction in his writing; mention of Megan Lloyd-George, 1950 (455/32); acquaintance with T. S. Eliot (455/42).

1956-7, From John E. Morgan of Ynysybwl, concerning: the correspondent's own health and friendships; reference to an arson attack by Welsh Nationalists, including Saunders Lewis and the Rev. Lewis Valentine, 1956 (461/1); George Ewart Evans's preparations for a talk on the mining community; Morgan's own writings on the political activities of miners, including a proposed sabotage; the realization of the need to record eye-witness accounts of life in the coalfields; changes in rural and mining communities due to mechanisation; articles in Seren Gomer; language; anecdote about Lloyd George, 1957 (461/6); mention of Dylan Thomas's widow, 1957 (461/8); radio broadcasts; writing; thanks for a copy of the latest book. Manuscript notes referring to changes in the coal mining communities of South Wales, ideas on religion, and human psychology; a typescript story entitled 'The Missing Exhibit'.

1944-86, From Paul Edward Evans and his wife, Florence, of Los Angeles, on miscellaneous topics, including: personal details, life in America and the American navy; writing and publishing; interest in Welsh literature, especially items published in Wales and the Welsh Review; gifts of food and clothing rationed in Britain; the end of World War II and the problem of demobilisation; George Ewart Evans's deafness; British and American politics; association with Matthew, son of Aldous Huxley, 1945 (454/10); thanks for gifts of books and magazines; acquaintance with Dr Evelyn Anderson, editor of the Tribune and friend of Aneurin Bevan, 1945 (454/23); anticipation of the development of George Ewart Evans's writing skills; his life in Blaxhall; appreciation of The Voices of the Children and the Suffolk books; a tribute to Dylan Thomas by [Aldous] Huxley and a lecture by Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1954 (454/67); social changes in America from the 1950s to 1970s; an earthquake in Los Angeles, 1971 (454/87); and four photographs.

1947-58, From William Glynne Jones, regarding personal details and family visits; writing and publishing; radio broadcasts; appreciation and criticism of George Ewart Evans's early short stories and articles; intended changes in his career; news of other Welsh writers, e.g. Jack Jones, 1947 (456/5); Glyn [Jones], Gwyn [Thomas], and the editor of Wales, Keidrych Rhys, 1948 (456/29), Aled Vaughan, 1951 (456/67), Cledwyn Hughes and Emyr Humphreys, 1951 (456/69); mention of Dr Thomas Jones, CH, 1947-8 (456/24, 456/27); William Glynne Jones's own career; his health problems, including a hare lip, 1958 (456/78).

Geoff Stanford: letters, 1986-7, concerning points of interest raised by the Suffolk books, including: productivity in animal husbandry; the historical question of provisioning large troupes of men and animals on the move; sense of smell in horses; the revitalisation of family farms in USA; characteristics of and customs associated with plants and the weather; links with Bentley Old Hall near Ipswich, and its architecture; dialect words; London dairies; agricultural practices; customs linked with pub-going; historical anecotes.

Going to Burton: letters, 1968-9, mainly from David Thomson at the BBC, regarding preparation of a radio programme entitled 'Going to Burton'; some personal details, arrangements for visits and thanks for a book received. See also no. 471.

Letters mainly relating to the publication of The Voices of the Children and other Welsh short stories, from Simon and Schuster, publishers, New York, July 1941 - October 1946; Professor Gwyn Jones, Aberystwyth, editor of The Welsh Review, July 1944 - July 1957 (nos. 414/6-41); and Penmark Press, May 1947 - September 1948. Correspondence between the BBC and George Ewart Evans concerning the possible serialisation and broadcasting of the book, March - August 1955. Pamphlet for a memorial service in Abercynon, November 1934, and a subscription leaflet for the Welsh Review.

Horse Power and Magic: correspondence, 1977-84, primarily from Faber and Faber, regarding preparation and publication of the book, with royalty statements, and permission to transcribe an extract into braille; personal letters including a note of thanks from Victor [Bonham-Carter], 1980 (446/1); others relating to dialect, photographs used for the book, the site of a farm, rejection by Thames Television. Manuscript notes by Peter du Sautoy on alterations and corrections to the text; lists of complimentary copies; illustrations and photograph; Faber press advertisement; copy of press review, 1979; cuttings reporting results of the Suffolk horse section at the Norfolk show, 1979.

Horse Power and Magic, large bundle of manuscript drafts and notes, some written on the reverse of correspondence and discarded typescripts of other works. Includes letters, transcripts of tape-recordings and a radio programme, a rough sketch, press cuttings and photocopied articles, typescript of the author's proposals for this book (dated 1976), a paper on the horse in agriculture, and a programme for the centenary dinner of the Suffolk Horse Society, 1977.

Illustrated Farm Ballads by Will Carleton (New York: 1875). Articles, [?] 1967-73, on agricultural machinery and horticultural practices, vernacular architecture, and the parish of 'Lodden in the Nineteenth Century'.