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Drafts of unpublished short stories by Margiad Evans, comprising a manuscript draft, [c. 1950-1], of 'The Equerry's House'; typescript drafts of 'And Every Day of their Lives', [c. 1951-3]; 'The Haunted Window', 1953, 'Knight's Move', 1953, and 'The Basilisk', 1953; an unfinished manuscript draft, [c. 1954], of 'A Borrower'; a typescript draft, 1954, of 'The Dome'; and a typescript fragment, [c. 1951-3], of an untitled and unidentified story.
Also included are two related letters to the author and two apparently unpublished draft poems, 'Ode. After Illness' (ff. 1-3) and 'Glass' (f. 99 recto-verso).

Manuscript and typescript drafts, [c. 1946]-1956, of poems by Margiad Evans, including penultimate and final drafts of her first published volume of poetry, Poems from Obscurity (London, 1947). Drafts of other published poems, [1953]-[1956], include eleven sonnets published in A Candle Ahead (London, 1956), pp. 32-38 (ff. 71-81), 'The Sufferer' (f. 85; marked 'published in Saskatchewan'), and 'In memory of a little god' (ff. 98-105). Unpublished poems include 'Yesterday and Today' and 'Poem' (ff. 87-89), and 'Cassandra desolated' (ff. 91-97).

Journal, September 1935-October 1939, of Margiad Evans, including an account of the death of her father in 1935 and of her visit to Iceland in 1936, comments on her relationships with family and friends, draft poems and the first draft of her 'Little Journal of being Alone' (ff. 138-148), later included in Autobiography (London, 1943).

Two incomplete manuscript drafts, 1954, of 'The Nightingale Silenced', an unpublished autobiographical work by Margiad Evans, describing the worsening of her epilepsy.
Also included is an apparently unpublished draft poem, 'Dedication. The Egotist' (f. i verso), and a list of poems written whilst a patient in the Kent and Sussex Hospital, Tunbridge Wells (f. 112).

An apparently complete manuscript draft, 1955, of 'The Nightingale Silenced', an unpublished autobiographical work by 'Margiad Evans', together with a draft poem, 'The Crows Answer' (f. 100 verso).

Manuscript volume containing two essays, [c. 1953], by Margiad Evans, on Emily Brontë (ff. 1-16, chapter 1 of a projected book-length study), and John Clare (ff. 45-54), together with an apparently unpublished short story entitled 'The Lordly Ones' and four draft poems, one of which, 'In memory of a little god', appeared in The Fortnightly, n. s. 1053 (Sept. 1954), pp. 198-200, whilst the others are apparently unpublished.