Dangos 569 canlyniad

Article for The Countryman: correspondence, 1986, and typescript of an article on the hill farms of South Wales, requested by Christopher Hall to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of The Countryman; a private letter used as source material for the article.

1947-58, From William Glynne Jones, regarding personal details and family visits; writing and publishing; radio broadcasts; appreciation and criticism of George Ewart Evans's early short stories and articles; intended changes in his career; news of other Welsh writers, e.g. Jack Jones, 1947 (456/5); Glyn [Jones], Gwyn [Thomas], and the editor of Wales, Keidrych Rhys, 1948 (456/29), Aled Vaughan, 1951 (456/67), Cledwyn Hughes and Emyr Humphreys, 1951 (456/69); mention of Dr Thomas Jones, CH, 1947-8 (456/24, 456/27); William Glynne Jones's own career; his health problems, including a hare lip, 1958 (456/78).

1951-66, On a variety of topics, including: agricultural practices and implements, horse-lore; praise and discussion of the Suffolk books; news of local people and places; dialect and the language of children; folk-lore; country dancing; bell ringing; architecture; rural industry; sociology; education; Welsh connections; the composition of Welsh verse; lecturing work; radio broadcasts, especially 'The Golden Bird'; the making of a film; photographs; tape recordings; articles, writing and publishing. Correspondents include: Raphael Salaman, 1965 (459/1-2); Fred Urquhart, 1956 (459/43).

Manuscript drafts and typescripts of the introduction to the book; list for distribution of complimentary copies; photographs of a county map of Suffolk; press cuttings, 1956, relating to reviews of the book and a radio broadcast of Suffolk dialect; printed programme for lectures on the folk-lore of plants. See also no. 421.

1956-7, From John E. Morgan of Ynysybwl, concerning: the correspondent's own health and friendships; reference to an arson attack by Welsh Nationalists, including Saunders Lewis and the Rev. Lewis Valentine, 1956 (461/1); George Ewart Evans's preparations for a talk on the mining community; Morgan's own writings on the political activities of miners, including a proposed sabotage; the realization of the need to record eye-witness accounts of life in the coalfields; changes in rural and mining communities due to mechanisation; articles in Seren Gomer; language; anecdote about Lloyd George, 1957 (461/6); mention of Dylan Thomas's widow, 1957 (461/8); radio broadcasts; writing; thanks for a copy of the latest book. Manuscript notes referring to changes in the coal mining communities of South Wales, ideas on religion, and human psychology; a typescript story entitled 'The Missing Exhibit'.

Notebooks in the form of wartime diaries, but including ideas for writing and definitions of words, 1942-1943.

Small notebooks, 1949-1987, containing miscellaneous material and ideas for writing, including: local characters and their occupations, dialect, historical sources and items of interest, occasional press cuttings, outline plans for broadcasts and articles, Welsh background, Greek texts and translations, Latin quotations, Suffolk agriculture and associated terminology, country lore and customs, definitions of words, sketches of implements, husbandry, horses, personal reminders, appointments, addresses, train timetables, expenses, notes deriving from interviews with local people, book titles and extracts, country cures, notes on China and an envelope containing fibre found during restoration of the Imperial Palace in Peking (no. 344, June 1976), diary of a visit to the Netherlands (no. 348, 1983-1984).

Notebook entitled 'Dialect: Suffolk', with further heading on flyleaf, 'Suffolk Sayings and Dialect Words: Blaxhall', containing definitions and examples of local dialect, country cures, stories of local characters and families, customs, traditions, smuggling, poaching, with names of the author's informants, 1953; two loose sheets at front of volume.

'The Horse', notes gathered from reference works and directly from oral evidence, concerning the work of horses and horsemen, folklore, breeding Suffolk Punches, horse-drawn implements, migration of horsemen to London and Burton on Trent [? c. 1959]

Two exercise books of Welsh vocabulary, definitions of words and phrases; no. 364 contains three sets of loose sheets [?1975]

Notes taken from local government and published sources mainly relating to buildings of historic and architectural interest in Blaxhall, Needham Market (especially the church, of which a printed plan and illustrations are included), and Suffolk in general; rubbings of merchants' marks; sketch plan of an unnamed house; Stuart coinage; the Icknield Way; folklore, and the custom of wife-selling.

Notebook, 1954, containing notes on literature, notably the work of Capell Lofft and the Bloomfield brothers, and descriptions of dreams experienced by George Ewart Evans.

Manuscript and typed notes and occasional correspondence for lectures, some undated, but the majority given between 1953 and 1969, on the subjects of domestic country crafts, the history of village life, changes in the rural community due to mechanisation, rural beliefs and customs, horse-lore, dialect, history of ideas on farming, recording of oral evidence and links with documentary sources, and architecture.

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.

Sketches and notes on domestic and church architecture, including an envelope which contains a house plan, rubbings taken from beams, and relevant correspondence.

Contents of a file originally entitled 'Dialect: Ilketshall St Lawrence': handwritten notes and extracts from reference works; manuscript and typed notes for lectures presented to various historical societies between 1962 and 1975 (including a series of six talks given at Ilketshall St Lawrence early in 1970), covering the topics of dialect and its relationship to old rural life, archaeology and oral tradition, local history source material, East Anglian dialect, language and folklore, and the story of Robert Bloomfield; a letter, 1971, and notes on the oral history of Lothingland in the fourteenth century; programme and membership list for two short courses.