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Illustrations for Horse Power and Magic, comprising photographs, postcards and prints of draught and race horses, horse-drawn implements, advertisements, elecampane, the horseman's herb, a stable building, and harvest; also occasional correspondence, a photographic portrait and two miscellaneous colour prints. (42 items).

Institute of Recorded Sound: correspondence, 1969-86, from the British Institute of Recorded Sound, Social Sciences Research Council and individuals, mainly concerning tape recordings for social history purposes, meetings, reviews of the Suffolk books, copyright of the tapes, mention of Imogen Holst, 1976 (437/29); the purpose of the British Institute of Recorded Sound as a repository for oral history; importance of the correct technique for recording; dialect studies; applications for research funds. Newsletters, circulars and reports, 1969-83, concerning the purpose and activities of the British Institute of Recorded Sound.

James Delaney, Longford Account: Letters, 1986-7, concerning: an accident involving George Ewart Evans and David [...]; preparation of the latest book, with permission to use one of Delaney's articles; the latter's own writing on folk-lore; review. Typescript notes and offprints of articles by James Delaney, 1978-86, on: collecting oral history evidence and oral traditions, especially in Longford; customs; horse training; folk medicine; agricultural procedures; crafts. Miscellaneous printed and typescript material: article on the seasonal migration of Irish workers; notes from a translation of Bede; press article on the artist, Tim Robinson; programme for a conference.

Keele University: letters, 1982-3, programmes, tickets, printed news release and list of graduates, relating to George Ewart Evans's honorary doctorate.

Later Books: 1972-86, mainly acknowledgements of copies received, praise and discussion of the following: Acky, The Days That We Have Seen, Let Dogs Delight, Where Beards Wag All, From Mouths of Men, Horse Power and Magic, The Leaping Hare and The Horse in the Furrow. Correspondents include: Spike [Mays], 1972 (483/1); Victor Bonham-Carter, 1973 (483/2), 1975 (483/44), 1976 (483/62); Sir Bernard Miles, 1975-7 (483/18-23); Raphael [Salaman], 1979 (483/72); and Iorwerth [Peate], 1979 (483/74).

Entitled 'Latin Prose Hints', notes from George Ewart Evans's university days in Cardiff, translations of Latin verse, and press cuttings relating to literary competitions in which he had frequent success; six pages of miscellaneous loose notes on literary style, Latin verse and prehistory, 1927.

Let Dogs Delight, (London: Faber and Faber, 1975), corrected proof. Fire-damaged typescript of the original short story of the same title, with handwritten caption, 'Life and Letters Today, March 1940'. (2 items).

James Delaney: 1969-87, letters from James Delaney and occasionally his wife, May, with some reference notes on various topics, including: recording the oral tradition, and its value; Delaney as a collector of Irish folk-lore, lecturer and writer, working at the University of Dublin under Delargey and Almqvist; praise and appreciation of the Suffolk books; work of David Thomson, 1970-87 (478/3, 478/28, 478/52, 478/76, 478/106); mention of Robert Graves, 1970 (478/9); agricultural implements and crafts, especially basket making and stone cutting; dialect; Delaney's deafness; social conditions and attitudes of old country people, particularly regarding marriage; articles; reviews; Irish literature; customs and folk-lore; personal news; George Ewart Evans's proposed return to Wales, 1971-6; admiration for Iorwerth Peate and the latter's death, 1982 (478/79); horse training and lore; television broadcast; George Ewart Evans's visits to Ireland, 1974, 1984; his offer of a Welsh Arts Council grant, 1974; his lecturing work; death of his mother, 1975; preparation of his autobiography and his honorary doctorates, 1982 (478/78), 1983 (478/80); progress on his latest book, 1986; and his ill health, 1987 (478/106).

Letter from Mouths of Men: correspondence, 1973-84, mainly from Faber and Faber, regarding publication of From Mouths of Men (originally entitled 'The Lively Word'), corrections to the text, mention of Melvyn Bragg, 1975 (445/28), distribution of complimentary copies, reviews, royalty notices; some letters from Lord Rhodes, 1974-6 (445/65-72), arranging meetings with George Ewart Evans and expressing thanks for books received. List of further corrections; typescript draft of the introduction; source notes on Lord Rhodes; press cutting on traditions relating to childrens' dress.

Letters from Robert Graves: 1969, April 29 (475/1), concerning the publishing of The White Goddess, horse magic in Australia, discussion of language and logic, personal comments. 1971, September 17 (475/2), thanks for a copy of Pattern Under the Plough, and regrets for the displacement of traditional crafts and rural activities by technology. 1972, January 12 (475/3), concerning a ghost dog, peasant tradition disappearing in the face of tourism, looking forward to a new book and an eventual meeting, and a mutual acquaintance, Graeme Fife.

Letters, 1966-86, covering various topics relevant to the Suffolk books: merchants' marks and other customs connected with domestic and church architecture; folk cures for animals; local characters as sources for oral history; appreciation of the books; lecturing work; dialect; folk-lore and customs; BBC television broadcast; technical details of metallurgy in relation to the blacksmith's craft; tools used in forestry, with three typed articles on the return of working horses to the forestry industry; social change among farm workers in the Netherlands. Correspondents include: Elwyn [?Evans], 1971 (469/14); Lady Tollemache to Mrs Evans, following a picture auction in which some of David Gentleman's sketches were sold, 1972 (469/29). Press cuttings, 1965-72, relating to the discovery of horse potions, removal of a manor house to a new site and a modern instance of witchcraft.

Line drawings by David Gentleman for The Strength of the Hills, showing village street scenes in Blaxhall, local characters, horses, Irish scenes, Abercynon, Ipswich, Aldeburgh and Southwold, Bungay, Huntingfield, agricultural machinery, the Mari Lwyd, and Southwell Minster. (32 items).

Manuscript and typescript copies of poems: 'Winter 1939', 'Crystal waters to a waiting world are gone...'; 'Spring 1940' (dated April 1940), 'The black freeze of months flows...'; untitled poem dated April 1940, 'Long years have loitered...'; 'May 1940', 'Alone behind the ramparts of this room...'; 'June 1940', 'Hearing battles and the agony of men...'; 'July 1940', 'After day's dearth and night's crooked sleep...'. (12 items).