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Letters, 1956-7, regarding a portrait photograph, publication by the Country Book Club, a transcription into Braille for the National Library for the Blind (with a copy of its annual report, March 1956), publicity in the Esso Farmer and the Western Mail.

Letters, 1987, relating to the publication of the book, thanks for copies received, points of interest, and a press review. Correspondents include: Graeme [Fife], 1987 (489/1), with details of his own work; [Sir] Bernard [Miles], 1987 (489/2); Raphael [Salaman], 1987 (489/3).

Letters, 1966-86, covering various topics relevant to the Suffolk books: merchants' marks and other customs connected with domestic and church architecture; folk cures for animals; local characters as sources for oral history; appreciation of the books; lecturing work; dialect; folk-lore and customs; BBC television broadcast; technical details of metallurgy in relation to the blacksmith's craft; tools used in forestry, with three typed articles on the return of working horses to the forestry industry; social change among farm workers in the Netherlands. Correspondents include: Elwyn [?Evans], 1971 (469/14); Lady Tollemache to Mrs Evans, following a picture auction in which some of David Gentleman's sketches were sold, 1972 (469/29). Press cuttings, 1965-72, relating to the discovery of horse potions, removal of a manor house to a new site and a modern instance of witchcraft.

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.

Letters, 1970 & 1983-6, with occasional press cutting and greetings cards, relating to the author's early years in Abercynon and his autobiography. Correspondents include: Victor Bonham-Carter, 1983 (480/7); Elwyn [? Evans], 1985 (480/19-20); Graeme [Fife], 1983 (480/27); D. Llewellyn Jenkins, 1983-4 (480/39-42); Lord Bernard Miles, 1984 (480/50-1), including some details of Henry Morris, educationalist.

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.

Line drawings by David Gentleman for The Strength of the Hills, showing village street scenes in Blaxhall, local characters, horses, Irish scenes, Abercynon, Ipswich, Aldeburgh and Southwold, Bungay, Huntingfield, agricultural machinery, the Mari Lwyd, and Southwell Minster. (32 items).

Manuscript and typescript copies of poems: 'Winter 1939', 'Crystal waters to a waiting world are gone...'; 'Spring 1940' (dated April 1940), 'The black freeze of months flows...'; untitled poem dated April 1940, 'Long years have loitered...'; 'May 1940', 'Alone behind the ramparts of this room...'; 'June 1940', 'Hearing battles and the agony of men...'; 'July 1940', 'After day's dearth and night's crooked sleep...'. (12 items).

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 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.

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).