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Notebooks containing drafts and fair copies of poems, some unpublished [c. 1946-56]. No. 1 includes a fair copy of Poems from Obscurity (London, 1947).

Notes from material lent by Winifred Ellerman ('Bryher') including a brief calendar of Margiad Evans's Irish journal and copies of 16 drawings by her.

Pedigree and draft chapter on the Whistler family, draft outline of W.A. Thorpe's study of Margiad Evans with plan of illustrations and select bibliography of her works.

Photographs of Margiad Evans and the Whistler family, of places associated with her and of drawings by her, 1920-65: 35/1 The Whistler sisters, Ross 1920 (Left: Nancy Esther Whistler; centre: Betty Brackett Whistler; right: Peggy Eileen Whistler); 35/2 Peggy Eileen Whistler, Ross 1925. Age 17; 35/3 Margiad Evans, portrait by Peter North, London, Feb.-March 1936; 35/4 The Whistler family, Lavender Cottage, Bridstow, near Ross, early 1936 (Left to right: Nancy Esther Whistler, Betty Brackett Whistler, Peggy Eileen Whistler, and their mother, Isabel Katharine Whistler); 35/5 Margiad Evans with 'Sian Evans' (Nancy Esther Whistler, on left), and their dogs, Daniel Nathaniel Spaniel Smith and Gladys. Springherne Guesthouse, Bull's Hill, near Ross, c. 1938; 35/6 Margiad Evans with Gladys, Ross Station, late 1939; 35/7 Margiad Evans at work on her unfinished book on Emily Bronte, at the Black House, Elkstone, co Gloucester. From a photograph in the Cheltenham Chronicle, 13 May 1950; 35/8 Margiad Evans with her daughter Cassandra, and dog Rosie, probably at Leckhampton Road, Cheltenham, c. 1953; 35/9 Anne Evans, Margiad Evans's grandmother, wife of Henry Radcliffe Whistler, c. 1850; 35/10 Cours St. Denis, Loches, France, c. 1925. [Compare The Wooden Doctor]; 35/11 Coch-Y-b-g, Pontlyfni, Caernarfon, where Margiad Evans stayed in 1930 with the Lloyd Jones family. [Compare The Wooden Doctor]. 3 photographs taken by George Thomas, Caernarfon, 1965; 35/12 17 Brookend, Ross, thought to be the home of Margiad Evans and her mother, 1934-35; 35/13 Chest's Mill, The Brookend, Ross. [Compare Creed]; 35/14 Lavender Cottage, Bridstow, Ross. Photograph taken 1963; 35/15-16 Springherne Guesthouse, Bull's Hill, Ross, c. 1938. The guesthouse was kept by Margiad Evans, her sister Nancy, and friend Helen Blackwell, 1936-39; 35/17-18 The Black House, Elkstone, Gloucester. [Compare A Ray of Darkness]; 35/19-20 Drawings for Alfred Williams, Tales from the Panchatantra (Oxford 1930) (cf. Margiad Evans MSS 941-959) - 19 King Putraka and the Magic Boots - 20 Mother Shandalee; 35/21 A Penny for the Guy, c. 1934. [Compare Turf or Stone, p. 260]; 35/22 A Party for the Nightingale [Compare Welsh Review vol. vii (1948), p. 85]; 35/23 Scene at Llangarron, Archenfield, c. 1948-49. Pastels; 35/24 Scene at Gloucester, c. 1948-49. Pastels; 35/25 Scene at Elkstone, c. 1950. Sepia drawing; 35/26 Dream drawing, made at Elkstone, c. 1951, after a visit to St. John's Church, Elkstone, seen on left; 35/27 Rapunzel, pen and ink, n.d.; 35/28 Oats and Corn, four drawings for a Christmas card, possibly c. 1934. Negatives of nos. 35/1-10, 15-16, 19-23, 26-28, and duplicate prints of nos. 35/1-16, 19-23, 26-28, have been transferred to the Department of Prints, Drawings and Maps.

September 1982 Donation (Margiad Evans MSS). Manuscripts, correspondence and drawings of Margiad Evans. Transcripts and facsimiles of some of these papers are included in the June 1982 Donation.

Short stories from The Old and the Young (London, 1948)