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Manuscript and typescript poems: 'After the Disaster'; 'Ailsa Craig', 'for Ellen', 1944; 'Autumn Images'; 'Bird Flight'; 'Christmas'; 'The Clerk', 1940; 'The Clerk's Calendar'; 'Dylan Thomas', 1939, a cycle of poems including 'In the Spring I Looked into the Eye of a Blackbird', 'Calf Lymph', 'Collier Boy', 'Swan in a Mining Village', and 'Chorus'; 'Exacted Labour: Light Denied', 1960; 'Feng Shui'; 'For Jane and Matthew'; 'In Praise'; 'Labels and Numbers'; 'Live Advertisement', 1940; 'Migration'; 'An Old Lady on a Chair - Rocking'; 'Partridges', 1940; 'Poem', 'To a flat sky is pinned the tilted moon...'; 'The Pursuit', 1945; 'The Recruit', 1941; 'The Rod / The Water Diviner'; 'Search Lights'; 'Seeing is not Seeing'; 'The Snowman', 1978; 'The Two Birch Trees'. Also included in this file are: a 'Synopsis of an Idea for a Verse Feature'; manuscript notes for a sketch, dated 1942, miscellaneous manuscript notes, 1946; fragments of poetry; manuscript notes on social conscience regarding the hydrogen bomb. (114 items).

Manuscript notes on various village characters; notes on The Vicar of Wakefield; typescripts of two stories for broadcasting, 'Just like a Horse', and 'Wil Slag'; typescript of 'Survivors', all of which were originally contained in an envelope entitled 'Welsh Stories'. (7 items).

Manuscript short stories comprising an untitled work, centred on a Welsh chapel, described as having been 'published in Life and Letters, June 1939'; 'Billy Thomas'; 'Kid Sweetheart'. Typescript stories: 'The Moon by Night', 'Reward for Death' (1937), 'The Silver Horn'. Manuscript play entitled 'Of Sanctuary after Death,' 'the "Mine" Play, final version'. Published story, 'Folk Tale', extracted from Welsh Review 1939, annotated in pencil. (8 items).

March 1976, containing an article, 'Untidy Reality: Edwardian Britain and the Tape-Recorder', by E. P. Hennock, which describes the work of George Ewart Evans, Paul Thompson and Raphael Samuel in the field of oral history.

Miscellaneous papers, 1970-87: information sheets, payment slips and receipts relating to pensions, tax, repair of electrical items; bank statements; NHS medical card, correspondence, ophthalmic prescriptions, surgery information; details of County Council home help service; press cutting, 1977, on tax and the elderly.

Miscellaneous photographs of village street scenes, and architectural details; people at work in agriculture, the fishing industry, saddlery, the wheelwright's and light engineering; agricultural machinery; single and group portraits of country people, showing dress, occupations, riding on horseback, local characters and schoolchildren; the pool at Blaxhall; certificate for burying in woollen; a mathematical problem and line drawings with notes relating to hares; plan of cottage allotments; French postcards, illustrating ranching and architecture; photographic negatives. (48 items).

Mostly press cuttings from local and national newspapers and journals, including: articles by George Ewart Evans, 1950-69, on aspects of rural life, local history and customs; anonymous articles, 1953-60, on language, farm implements and mechanisation, and rural amenities; short story and summary of another; articles about Evans, 1955-60, and transcript of a short television programme, 1964; reviews of poetry and music, 1953, a play, 1961, and books, 1954-65; items of local and historic interest, including a reproduction of John Speed's map of Suffolk; typescript speech on the need for a rural water supply and sewerage system, 1952; dust jacket for Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay.

National Health and Pensions Insurance card, 1946-7; passport, 1976-86; vaccination record, 1976; official forms, correspondence and statements from the Inland Revenue, National Savings and Barclays Bank, accompanied by occasional handwritten notes; royalty statements from Faber and Faber, 1987; certificate of pension, official correspondence and bank statements, 1985-7, belonging to Florence Evans.

Newspaper cuttings of short stories, 'The Miller and His Pony', 1956, and 'The Mattress', 1959; cuttings relating to the behaviour of horses and bees, and advice for contributors to radio programmes, 1958; manuscript notes for miscellaneous stories.

No. 2, October 1943, containing an article, 'An Emergent National Literature'; and on a loose sheet, a handwritten piece by F. R. Lewis, entitled 'The Grand Fellow', addressed to 'Annabelle'.