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Recollections of local (named) characters, regarding customs associated with Blaxhall Ship Fair Day, sheep shearing, village families and childhood.

Typed inventory of miscellaneous implements, instruments, pictures and archaeological finds, with the names of their owners [? possibly for the Blaxhall exhibition].

Notes taken from local government and published sources mainly relating to buildings of historic and architectural interest in Blaxhall, Needham Market (especially the church, of which a printed plan and illustrations are included), and Suffolk in general; rubbings of merchants' marks; sketch plan of an unnamed house; Stuart coinage; the Icknield Way; folklore, and the custom of wife-selling.

Xerox copy, 1980, of the sixth draft of a pedigree chart of the Jehu family, originally of Llangynyw and Llanfair Caereinion, Montgomeryshire (ff. 1-5).
A few manuscript emendations and additions, [1980], are also included (f. 6).

Printed material comprising: a short story, 'He Saith Among the Trumpet Ha, Ha', by George Ewart Evans (photocopy); articles on the local history of Norfolk, linguistics, opium consumption in the Fenlands, and deafness.

Typescript Welsh poems by Peate, 1974, 1980, on the deaths of his brother and son, the subject of hospital, and year's end.

Transcripts:: a court roll, 1718, and a terrier of Barking and Needham; article from the Illustrated London News, 1851, on a meeting for the improvement of the labouring classes, chaired by Prince Albert; an obituary notice from The Times, 1886, and a biography of Mrs Girling of the Shaker community; survey of the rural districts of Suffolk. Date of transcripts estimated [1950x1980]

Correspondence concerning folklore associated with St Brigid's crosses (1971), and the author's help in producing a promotional leaflet for a local history journal (1980).

A memorandum, March 1979, containing additions and corrections to 'The Jehu Story', compiled by the donor (see NLW MS 17447xxxixE).

Llythyr, 22 Awst [1976x1979], oddi wrth Rachel Bromwich, Bethesda, at Mr [David] Jenkins, [Penrhyn-coch, sir Aberteifi], yn trafod rhai lleoliadau yng ngogledd sir Aberteifi ac iddynt gysylltiad â Dafydd ap Gwilym, yn arbennig 'Melin y Prior' a 'Bwlch y Maen'. Aeth Jenkins a Bromwich ar daith tywys o amgylch yr ardal wythnos ynghynt; ganed Dafydd ap Gwilym, mae'n debyg, ym Mrogynin, Penrhyn-coch. = A letter, 22 August [1976x1979], from Rachel Bromwich, Bethesda, to Mr [David] Jenkins, [Penrhyn-coch, Cardiganshire], discussing certain places in northern Cardiganshire associated with the poet Dafydd ap Gwilym, in particular 'Melin y Prior' and 'Bwlch y Maen'. Jenkins had given Bromwich a tour of the area the previous week; Brogynin in Penrhyn-coch was Dafydd ap Gwilym's probable birthplace.

Three letters, 1963, 1966, 1970 (ff. 157-159), from R. S. Thomas to the author and book collector Eric Quayle, thanking him for a donation for the village school at Eglwysfach, Cardiganshire (f. 157), and for several gifts of books.
Three photographs, [?1970s], of Eglwysfach Vicarage (f. 160), and church (ff. 161-162) are also included. There is a reference to Sir Rupert Hart-Davis on f. 158.

Miscellaneous correspondence, including draft letters by George Ewart Evans, with support from Iorwerth C. Peate and Norman Scarfe, and replies from Sir Mortimer Wheeler, in connection with an application for a British Academy award, January 1962 - February 1963; note from Ffransis Payne of the Welsh Folk Museum, November 1966; correspondence and invoices for subscription to a dictionary, October - November 1979.

Press cutting reporting the wedding of the author's sister, no date [?1930x1940]. Other cuttings, 1965-79, relating to: dialect; an article by George Ewart Evans, entitled 'Old Carpenters' Tales' in the Times Educational Supplement, 4 November 1966; Mulbarton Pond; American politics; and a local fair.

Envelope containing routine correspondence and papers of Clifford Dyment relating to pensions, National Insurance and Social Security, 1948-1971; together with his school report at Loughborough, Spring Term, 1929; and papers, 1978, of Dyment's mother, concerning a 'British Poetry Today' reading including one of his poems.

Correspondence, 1974-8, mainly from Faber and Faber, relating to the publication of Let Dogs Delight, including the jacket illustration by David Gentleman, and to the preparation of The Days That We Have Seen; copy letter from the BBC giving notice of a broadcast of three stories.

Transcripts of other Blaxhall recordings, specifically interviews with Rookyard (also Aldous), A. S. Pluck and H. E. Rowe, Mrs Savage, Mr Tom Jay (and his wife).

Miscellaneous notes relating to the recordings, (some of them entitled 'In the Country: History on the Doorstep'), concerning the use of agricultural implements, the role of oral history, changes in rural life, village customs, especially the Ship Inn Fair, diet, dress and bell ringing.

A revised typescript draft, 1977-1978, of a poem entitled 'Crewe Blues' by John Tripp.
The draft has numerous manuscript revisions and annotations and has the typescript title 'British Rail Blues (The Junction of Despair)' crossed through and replaced with 'Crewe Blues' in ink. A heavily revised version of the poem (see NLW MS 24013D, f. 136) was published as 'Northern Railway Blues' in John Tripp, The Meaning of Apricot Sponge, ed. by Tony Curtis (Cardigan, 2010), pp. 162-163. The poem was apparently written after a Christmas visit by Tripp to his friend the philosopher Allen Phillips Griffiths in Coventry.

Manuscript and typescript notes for lectures presented between 1973 and 1978, on old village life and speech of the villagers; the oral tradition and methods of recording oral evidence; the importance of oral tradition and dialect; cottage childhood; agriculture; and links between land and sea.

Xerox copies, [?1977], of a summary compiled by the donor, July-September 1976, of the history of the Jehu family of Melin-y-ddol, Llanfair Caereinion, Montgomeryshire (ff. i, 1-29), and an accompanying family tree, October 1976 (f. 30).