Dangos 92 canlyniad

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

Typed inventory of miscellaneous implements, instruments, pictures and archaeological finds, with the names of their owners [? possibly for the Blaxhall exhibition].

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

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.

Envelope containing notes and press cutting, 1964, on the role of the constable and village lock-up; transcript of an epigram on a parish priest; short story about a poacher, in the Suffolk dialect; three photographs of miscellaneous seventeenth century documents; and a printed copy of Gentleman's Grocer and Draper Shooting Account.

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.

Suggestions and treatment for Welsh film, 1956, Blaxhall film, 1957, and rural crafts film.

General correspondence, 1966, relating to a [film] order and tape recording of a programme.

Notes for lectures and conferences presented between 1969 and 1980, covering the topics of oral history and techniques for recording it, folk-life and lore, the South Wales miners, horse brasses, George Ewart Evans's own life as a writer; and a printed programme for a family history course, 1984.

Extracts from reference works in connection with village communities, philosophy and horses; letter and article on shepherds from Country Life, Christmas 1974; press cutting, 1984, and a draft letter by George Ewart Evans relating to financial cuts in the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies at Leeds University.

'The Old Rural Community', transcripts of a series of interviews with the older [named] residents of the village, dated June 1964 - January 1965.

Material relating to a film entitled 'Requiem for a Village', directed by David Gladwell, including correspondence between David Gladwell and George Ewart Evans, 1973-6, with the latter in an advisory capacity regarding the planning, and letters relating to the eventual showing of the film; a typescript plan for the treatment of the film; programmes for the first showing at the nineteenth London film Festival, November 1975; an invitation to attend the première of the film in Ipswich, March 1976; together with reviews.

Letters, February 1963 - January 1986, requesting permission to use extracts from the short stories, especially 'Let Dogs Delight' and 'Possessions', with royalty statements for the same.

Licence to grant permission for a performance of a play, 'The Fence', 1961; list of tapes to be taken to the Arts Theatre, Ipswich, 1973; and two copies of an agreement for use of the Blaxhall tapes, 1975.

Manuscript and typed notes taken from medical journals, on the subject of cyanosis in infants linked to pollution in water, and two copies of an article by George Ewart Evans, entitled 'Guns Before Water', 1952.

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).

General correspondence, 1983-4, relating to the Race family of Suffolk and their involvement with horses, research on harvest barrels, and a tape recording.

A letter and xeroxed extracts and articles on the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Programme of summer courses at Coleg Harlech. See also no. 450.