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Cardboard file containing typescript of 'The Ship in the Forest', a film for children, dated 11 March 1955; a pencilled note states 'film for NFF.'.

Certificate issued by the Central Welsh Board for School Certificate Examination, July 1925.

Charles Parker: letters, 1972-4, concerning: Parker's job loss at the BBC and his future career plans; his writings; the illness and death of Dafydd Thomas; a visit to China; tape recordings, with guidelines on field recording techniques drawn up as a result of collecting oral material for 'Radio Ballads'; appreciation of the Leaping Hare; folk songs. Typescript article by Parker, 1970, on teaching the value of the oral tradition. Articles, 1970-2, on Parker's redundancy; his work recording live speech; a summary of his career and a list of the radio and television programmes with which he was involved; containerisation of the BBC; typed copies of press reviews. Annual reports of the Charles Parker Archive Trust, 1983-4, including a list of his tapes, accompanied by a related letter. Leaflets from the South Wales Miners' Library.

Contents of a file entitled 'Oral History', comprising notes, printed and typescript articles, press cuttings, occasional correspondence and a postcard, relating to: approach to recording oral history (1974); early man and prehistory; collection of folk songs and dances by Cecil Sharp and Douglas Kennedy; agricultural work; loss of rural crafts to technology; rural buildings; superstition connected with fishing; class and society; anthropology; Welsh folk stories, especially Beddgelert; George Ewart Evans's diary of events and thoughts at the time of an operation in Reading, October 1983.

A group apparently being a continuation of 392 above, originally contained in a file labelled 'Tape Transcripts', notes entitled 'Blaxhall Recordings (Eight Tapes)', on the character of the village and its inhabitants; interviews with some of the older people, entitled 'Sam Friend, Framsden' (June 1967), 'Charles Kindred in Albert Love's tape' (June 1969), 'Albert Love' (November 1968), 'Alice Peters', 'John Richard's Tapes: Bill Scoggins and Prentice Lane', 'C. Rookyard', 'George Sadler'; recollections of childhood games and fishing activities; various folk poems, counting rhyme and song. Notes on miscellaneous subjects, including George Ewart Evans's own dreams (1967), a reference work relating to maritime industries and customs, sheep grazing rights, and the significance of certain objects in agriculture. Press cuttings, 1963-78, relating to primitive agriculture, export of old-fashioned flat irons, and blizzards in Wales.

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Copy of The Times, 1805, reprinted 1955; an article by George Ewart Evans, entitled 'Building on History', Home Magazine, July 1961; other press cuttings, 1964-6, relating to local history, the horticulturalist, Robert Uvedale, in connection with cedar trees, and customs surrounding pig-killing.

Corrected typescript, entitled 'Valley Boy', which appears to have formed the basis of the author's autobiographical work, The Strength of the Hills.

Correspondence and contracts for books: The Voices of the Children (Penmark Press, 1947), The Fitton Four Poster (Blackie, 1952), and Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay (1956), The Horse in the Furrow (1958), The Pattern Under the Plough (1965), Where Beards Wag All (1967), The Farm and the Village (1967), The Leaping Hare (1969), Acky (1972), The Days That We Have Seen (1973), From Mouths of Men (1974), Let Dogs Delight (1974), Horse Power and Magic (1977), The Strength of the Hills (1982), Spoken History (1986), all published by Faber and Faber.