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Papers of George Ewart Evans, including manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poetry, short stories, children's literature, a drama, oral history and autobiographical material, 1932-1986; illustrations, including drawings and photographs, [1932x1985]; journals and pamphlets, 1922-1988; other publications, 1950-1969; notebooks, 1927-1987; oral history, dialect and local history notes, 1941-1988; miscellaneous notes and source materials, [1894x1988]; notes for lectures, [1950]-[1984]; radio, tape transcripts, television and film material, [1947x1988]; correspondence and related material, including official and private letters, 1934-1987; personal items such as certificates, university papers and diaries, 1866-1988; engagement diaries and address books, [1927x1988]; cuttings, reviews and articles by or about George Ewart Evans, 1947-1988; and miscellaneous articles and reference books, 1875, 1906, [1927x1986].

Photocopied articles and photographs relating to: an experimentalist farmer in Suffolk; a horse-drawn cart; harvest; and the death of an expert on weed and insect control.

Offprint of an article in Medical History, 1983, by Dr David van Zwanenberg, consultant physician at Ipswich Hospital, entitled 'The Training and Careers of Those Apprenticed to Apothecaries in Suffolk, 1815-1858'.

Hardback file containing the typescript of a series of articles, 1986, entitled 'Facets of Life in Town and Country Prior to the First World War', by Michael Field, a researcher based in Norfolk; he acknowledges George Ewart Evans's work, and emphasises the importance of oral evidence as a historical source.

'Reflections', a three-part article by Hannah Arendt, on the processes and philosophy involved in thinking, printed in the New Yorker, November 1977.

Typescript draft article entitled 'Workshop Folklore in England', by Raphael Salaman, dated January 1983, written for the Early American Industries Association's Journal, accompanied by a personal letter, 1985.

Two printed pamphlets on the history and nature of the Faber and Faber publishing company, one of which contains a photograph of George Ewart Evans.

Printed booklet, 1906, and a typescript article on the Palace of Theobolds. Paper entitled 'Myddleton's Glory' ('Article on the New River').

Typescript of The South Wales Coalfield History Project report, produced in July 1974 by the Department of History and Economic History, University College, Swansea, showing the results of three years' work collecting manuscripts, printed material and particularly oral evidence gathered through tape recordings, as a record of the social and economic history of the coalfield; mention of George Ewart Evans's contribution to oral history, pp. 129 & 136; and a copy of the Third Annual Report of the South Wales Miners' Library, 1976-7.

Illustrated Farm Ballads by Will Carleton (New York: 1875). Articles, [?] 1967-73, on agricultural machinery and horticultural practices, vernacular architecture, and the parish of 'Lodden in the Nineteenth Century'.

Press obituaries of George Ewart Evans, January 1988 and David Thomson, March 1988. A page from the Radio Times, February 1988, advertising 'A Writer's Suffolk'.

Press and magazine reviews, 1983-4, of The Strength of the Hills, and two edited extracts printed in the Western Mail, October-November 1983.

Typescript drafts, press cuttings and correspondence, 1969-81, relating to George Ewart Evans's reviews of other country books, including: The Survival of the English Countryside by Victor Bonham-Carter, 1971 (544/7); A Lad of Evesham Vale by Fred Archer, 1972 (544/13); Akenfield by Ronald Blythe, 1972-4 (544/19-30), the book and the film heavily criticised by George Ewart Evans, with a response from Sir Bernard Miles, 1975 (544/29); an article entitled 'I Am a Tape Recorder' in Encounter, containing a review of Speak for England by Melvyn Bragg, 1976 (544/39); Hovel in the Hills by Elizabeth West, 1977 (544/42-6). Miscellaneous, comprising: an article, 'The Hare' in New Society (no. 56); a letter to the press, 1978, and an article, 1982, relating to village events; two typescript articles, concerning a riding master and a 'Small Country Town'; press cutting, 1974, on George Ewart Evans's life and work; part of an untitled typescript article on village traditions, including his remarks on the Blaxhall stone; letter requesting submission of a short story.

Reader's Reports for Faber and Faber, on the following manuscripts, with dates of reading given in brackets where known: Second Draft by Hugh Barrett; I'll Dig No Graves by Alan Bloom (1973); The Owl: Lore and Truth by Juliette De Bairacli Levy; The Humber and Me by Harry Fletcher (1974); Rathlin Island by Rosemary Harris (1969); History from the Farm, Dr W. G. Hoskins (ed.);. What Is a Gypsy? by Ronald Lee; The Turning Tide by Barbara Maude (1974); Whims of the Father by Jack Overhill; Welsh Rural Society by D. Parry-Jones; The Phoenix Throne by Iorwerth C. Peate; From the Bottom to the Middle by Denny Scroggins.