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Envelope containing: Memorial Register 10, 1939-45, The Alamein Memorial, Introduction to the Register and Part IX (Air Forces) Ab-Fut, recording the loss of George Ewart Evans's brother, David Ronald [Roy], in 1942; a message of sympathy from King George and the Queen; a letter, 1966, to [Janet Evans] from a daughter, Molly, concerning the RAF and Alamein memorials.

Envelope marked 'Plan of Top Field', containing: two sketch maps showing roads, land-marks and position of No. 53, Park View, Abercynon; two copies from tithe and OS maps, showing part of the River Taff near the New Inn; plan and elevation for a proposed stable for Mr W. Evans at Abercynon.

Essex University: correspondence, 1969-82, from members of the Department of Sociology, University of Essex, especially Paul and Thea Thompson, on various subjects, including: oral history conferences; articles; publishing; appreciation of the Suffolk books; invitations to lecture; the appointment of George Ewart Evans as a fellow of the university, 1973 (435/16, 435/19); his honorary doctorate, 1982, (435/56-62); tape recordings; report for a proposed research project on Suffolk farm workers; criticism of Ronald Blythe's Akenfield; and a press cutting, 1973, describing a study of changes in farming communities by the university.

Two exercise books of Welsh vocabulary, definitions of words and phrases; no. 364 contains three sets of loose sheets [?1975]

Extracts from reference works in connection with village communities, philosophy and horses; letter and article on shepherds from Country Life, Christmas 1974; press cutting, 1984, and a draft letter by George Ewart Evans relating to financial cuts in the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies at Leeds University.

Hardback file containing the typescript of a series of articles, 1986, entitled 'Facets of Life in Town and Country Prior to the First World War', by Michael Field, a researcher based in Norfolk; he acknowledges George Ewart Evans's work, and emphasises the importance of oral evidence as a historical source.

Items originally contained in a file entitled 'The American Language and the Suffolk Dialect': two typed copies of a lecture, 'Common Origins (The American Language and the Suffolk Dialect)', presented in April 1957, with related correspondence and press review; two further, untitled lectures on similar topics, and a printed article entitled 'Let Your Yeah be Yeah'; manuscript notes taken from reference works on American language and houses; magazine and press uttings on English dialects and American life and history.

Contents of a file originally entitled 'Dialect: Ilketshall St Lawrence': handwritten notes and extracts from reference works; manuscript and typed notes for lectures presented to various historical societies between 1962 and 1975 (including a series of six talks given at Ilketshall St Lawrence early in 1970), covering the topics of dialect and its relationship to old rural life, archaeology and oral tradition, local history source material, East Anglian dialect, language and folklore, and the story of Robert Bloomfield; a letter, 1971, and notes on the oral history of Lothingland in the fourteenth century; programme and membership list for two short courses.

Items originally contained in a file entitled 'Talks on Oral Tradition and Oral History', typed and handwritten notes for lectures presented to universities, historical societies and conferences between 1970 and 1982, on the subjects of oral tradition and history, and techniques for collecting oral evidence, East Anglian farming customs and implements, the rural working classes in the nineteenth century, attitudes to work, status and dress linked with occupation, decline of rural culture, study of communities in Wales and England; occasional related correspondence; programmes for oral history courses; notes on Richard Gough and his History of Myddle.

Items originally contained in a file labelled 'British Association and Other Talks', two amended typescript drafts, some handwritten notes and the final version of a lecture entitled 'Anthropology and Oral History', presented at the centenary meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at the University of East Anglia in September 1984, accompanied by notes on the development of the anthropology section of the British Association; and a programme and notices in English and Welsh, advertising forthcoming lectures by George Ewart Evans in 1984.

Typescript film sequences, treatment and filming schedule, 1979, for a programme on Blaxhall in a BBC television series, 'Writers and Places'; correspondence from John Archer at the BBC, July 1979-May 1980, relating to preparation and showing of the film; other, personal correspondence following its showing on television, 1 April 1980, including letters from Adrian Bell (409/17), Graeme [Fife] (409/30), Raphael Salaman (409/44), David [Thomson] (409/47); press cuttings advertising the programme; a printed pamphlet for St Peter's - Blaxhall Flower Festival, 1979; miscellaneous correspondence, March-May 1980, relating to a book illustration, possible establishment of local museums, publishing and personal acquaintances.

Foreign journal dated 1983, with the name of George Ewart Evans included in a list on the fly-leaf.

[?1972], From Dafydd [Thomas], on various subjects, including: recollections of a stay in Suffolk and George Ewart Evans's visit to see him; news of friends; request for Faber books; mention of Charles Parker films; humour; a BBC radio broadcast, leading to reminiscences of schooldays in Ynysybwl; dialect; contemporary situation in the Middle East; an invitation to visit him in Welshpool; and his disability [due to a stroke].

1945-50 (With several undated), from Glyn Jones, regarding an invitation to submit poetry for an Anglo-Welsh anthology edited by Henry Treece; appreciation of The Voices of the Children; personal visits and family; his own life as a teacher in a South Wales school and his writing; contemporary Welsh literature, with frequent references to other writers, including William Glynne [Jones] (passim) and Dylan Thomas, 1947-50 (455/10, 455/12 455/26-7, 455/29); womens' writings; George Ewart Evans's departure from teaching and the appointment of his wife as village schoolmistress [at Blaxhall], 1948 (455/20); radio broadcasts, reviews and articles; the publishing work of Keidrych Rhys, with his assistant, Harry Webb, 1949 (455/27); publication of George Ewart Evans's short stories; encouragement to attempt a change of direction in his writing; mention of Megan Lloyd-George, 1950 (455/32); acquaintance with T. S. Eliot (455/42).

1956-7, From John E. Morgan of Ynysybwl, concerning: the correspondent's own health and friendships; reference to an arson attack by Welsh Nationalists, including Saunders Lewis and the Rev. Lewis Valentine, 1956 (461/1); George Ewart Evans's preparations for a talk on the mining community; Morgan's own writings on the political activities of miners, including a proposed sabotage; the realization of the need to record eye-witness accounts of life in the coalfields; changes in rural and mining communities due to mechanisation; articles in Seren Gomer; language; anecdote about Lloyd George, 1957 (461/6); mention of Dylan Thomas's widow, 1957 (461/8); radio broadcasts; writing; thanks for a copy of the latest book. Manuscript notes referring to changes in the coal mining communities of South Wales, ideas on religion, and human psychology; a typescript story entitled 'The Missing Exhibit'.