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Margiad Evans manuscripts Iceland -- Description and travel.
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Journal,

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).

Autobiographical notes,

Fragments of autobiographical writings and personal notes, [c. 1934]-[c. 1955], by Margiad Evans, including a draft of the 'Little Nature Diary' (ff. 43-70) published in Autobiography (London, 1943), p. 145-173, and 'Icelandic Notes' (ff. 71-75), which represent a reworking, [1951x1953], of a journal of a visit to Iceland in 1936; ff. 1-35 verso were written during the same period as NLW MS 23366D, and ff. 36-42 just before her departure to Dorset in September 1939 to work as a housekeeper, whilst ff. 76-77 contain notes on her epilepsy. Also included are three letters, 1943-1950, to Margiad Evans, including one from Robert Herring (f. 78), praising her essay 'Down Green Ladders', published by him in Life and Letters Today, 38 (1943), pp. 79-85, later incorporated in Autobiography, pp. 131-136.