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From Paul Edward Evans and his wife, Florence, of Los Angeles, on miscellaneous topics, including: personal details, etc.

1944-86, From Paul Edward Evans and his wife, Florence, of Los Angeles, on miscellaneous topics, including: personal details, life in America and the American navy; writing and publishing; interest in Welsh literature, especially items published in Wales and the Welsh Review; gifts of food and clothing rationed in Britain; the end of World War II and the problem of demobilisation; George Ewart Evans's deafness; British and American politics; association with Matthew, son of Aldous Huxley, 1945 (454/10); thanks for gifts of books and magazines; acquaintance with Dr Evelyn Anderson, editor of the Tribune and friend of Aneurin Bevan, 1945 (454/23); anticipation of the development of George Ewart Evans's writing skills; his life in Blaxhall; appreciation of The Voices of the Children and the Suffolk books; a tribute to Dylan Thomas by [Aldous] Huxley and a lecture by Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1954 (454/67); social changes in America from the 1950s to 1970s; an earthquake in Los Angeles, 1971 (454/87); and four photographs.

From Glyn Jones, regarding an invitation to submit poetry for an Anglo-Welsh anthology edited by Henry Treece, etc.

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).

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