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Manuscript and typescript notes, press cuttings and other printed material relating to bell ringing, horses, rural life and traditions, folk tales, dialect, domestic architecture (including rubbings and sketches of merchants' marks), Herman Biddell, a Suffolk horse breeder, extracts from reference works and a paper on the horse in agriculture.

Miscellaneous manuscript and typescript notes, transcripts and occasional press cuttings relating to old domestic crafts, agricultural practices, horse-lore, condition and life of the agricultural labourer, smugglers, oral history, customs and dialect.

Part of the proof of Let Dogs Delight [?c. 1975]; an article by George Ewart Evans on his impressions of the old and new offices of Faber and Faber; typescript reader's report on The Land Remembers by Gwyn Williams; notes on textual changes to The Dying Gaul; typed and printed articles on dialect, a book fair and a libel case involving Faber and Faber; printed leaflet for the funeral service of Morley Kennerley, March 1985.

Press cuttings: a page from the Ipswich Journal, Nov. 1894, in an envelope covered with the author's notes; an envelope containing articles (one dated 1912) about the Ashburnham family; miscellaneous cuttings, 1949-67, relating to prehistory, archaeology, local history, place-names, early agricultural machinery, rural crafts, Iorwerth Peate on the preservation of small communities (The Times, 2 September 1958), the Phoenix Trust, regional cultures, architecture, literature, attitudes to and techniques for interviewing, sociology, folklore, changes in rural communities, study of Scottish culture, the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, cookery and dialect.

Press cuttings, 1950-6, relating to poor water supplies and infant deaths; two issues of the Deben Bulletin, July 1950 and April 1951.

Press cuttings, 1958-81, relating to the Freemen of Llantrisant and Llantrisant Town Trust, George Ewart Evans's pensioners' classes in Ipswich, Henry Morris's ideas on education, local grazing rights, letter from George Ewart Evans on oral archives. For further personal memorabilia see nos. 490-503 below.

Press cutting reporting the wedding of the author's sister, no date [?1930x1940]. Other cuttings, 1965-79, relating to: dialect; an article by George Ewart Evans, entitled 'Old Carpenters' Tales' in the Times Educational Supplement, 4 November 1966; Mulbarton Pond; American politics; and a local fair.

Colour print of the Brecon Beacons by John Warwick Smith, 1795; two black and white sillhouette cards showing country scenes; and the business card of John Harrison & Sons, Dronfield, tool manufacturers [? c. 1953].

Private letters, 1953[?]-86, concerning dialect, local characters and places, discussions of the book, letters of thanks for copies received. Correspondents include: Fred Urquhart, 1956 (460/6); Aneirin Talfan Davies at the BBC, 1957 (460/18).

Recollections of local (named) characters, regarding customs associated with Blaxhall Ship Fair Day, sheep shearing, village families and childhood.

Typescript copy of the Rector's address at the funeral of Raymond Wilfrid Cordy Keer, who died on 15 April 1966.

School Certificate, 1927, and university certificate for rugby, 1927-31 (with copy).

Typescripts of two speeches given at the author's admittance to his honorary doctorates at the universities of Keele and Essex, 1982.

Printed material comprising: a short story, 'He Saith Among the Trumpet Ha, Ha', by George Ewart Evans (photocopy); articles on the local history of Norfolk, linguistics, opium consumption in the Fenlands, and deafness.