Dangos 569 canlyniad

Notes taken from historical sources, relating to Norfolk and Suffolk, especially Crowshall, Aldeburgh and Snape [?1966]

Containing Welsh dialect and the author's background in Abercynon (including the Senghennydd explosion in 1913), local Suffolk characters, Suffolk sayings and traditions, Greek and Latin quotations, personal experiences, thoughts and dreams, transcript of a letter from George Ewart Evans to John Layard, 21 November 1972, comparing attitudes of primitive societies to those of western man, notes taken from reference sources, especially relating to linguistics and psychology, 1968-1977; two loose sheets at front of volume.

Diary of a visit to France, March 1970; note at the front, recording a Suffolk saying.

File of correspondence, programme, notes and written exercises from a Welsh language summer school at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, 1975.

Small notebook, entitled 'Wales', containing Welsh sayings, traditions, attitudes, life in the mining valleys; a note from the author' s daughter, Mary, thanking her parents for presents. [?1930x1960]

Typed and manuscript notes, with a typescript copy, of the sayings of the author's children, recorded between 1941 and 1953. (2 items).

Various handwritten notes, printed articles and press cuttings, originally in a file entitled 'Survivals', relating to: Welsh local history and the canals of Wales and the border, together with the typescript of a radio feature entitled 'Our Parish', set in Llanwynno; evolution and genetics; anthropology; relationship of body and mind; philosophy; rural implements; horse lore; country traditions; social values; language, dialect and relevance of the oral tradition; mythology; preservation of East Anglian culture; literature; extracts from reference works.

Contents of a file entitled 'Oral History', comprising notes, printed and typescript articles, press cuttings, occasional correspondence and a postcard, relating to: approach to recording oral history (1974); early man and prehistory; collection of folk songs and dances by Cecil Sharp and Douglas Kennedy; agricultural work; loss of rural crafts to technology; rural buildings; superstition connected with fishing; class and society; anthropology; Welsh folk stories, especially Beddgelert; George Ewart Evans's diary of events and thoughts at the time of an operation in Reading, October 1983.

Manuscript and typed notes under various headings: 'Charles Edward Fisher (born 1888)' and the subject of malting; 'Bob and Percy's Place', a description of the lives of two elderly cottagers; 'Interview with Hubert Reeve', 'Wheelwrights', 'Shottisham Street'; 'Mr Teddy Baker', 1987, on village life in Alderton; other notes on dialect; extracts from Bawdsey school minute book, 1902-20; harvest and allotment agreements with related letter attached; article on contemporary capitalism entitled 'Thatcher Puts the Clock Back'; notes from reference works on harvest customs and measurements used for the construction of Mediaeval houses.

Vol. 18, no. 42, February 1970, containing a review by Roland Mathias of Studies in Folk Life: Essays in Honour of Iorwerth C. Peate, to which George Ewart Evans contributed.