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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.

1947-58, From William Glynne Jones, regarding personal details and family visits; writing and publishing; radio broadcasts; appreciation and criticism of George Ewart Evans's early short stories and articles; intended changes in his career; news of other Welsh writers, e.g. Jack Jones, 1947 (456/5); Glyn [Jones], Gwyn [Thomas], and the editor of Wales, Keidrych Rhys, 1948 (456/29), Aled Vaughan, 1951 (456/67), Cledwyn Hughes and Emyr Humphreys, 1951 (456/69); mention of Dr Thomas Jones, CH, 1947-8 (456/24, 456/27); William Glynne Jones's own career; his health problems, including a hare lip, 1958 (456/78).

General correspondence, 1966, relating to a [film] order and tape recording of a programme.

General correspondence, 1983-4, relating to the Race family of Suffolk and their involvement with horses, research on harvest barrels, and a tape recording.

Geoff Stanford: letters, 1986-7, concerning points of interest raised by the Suffolk books, including: productivity in animal husbandry; the historical question of provisioning large troupes of men and animals on the move; sense of smell in horses; the revitalisation of family farms in USA; characteristics of and customs associated with plants and the weather; links with Bentley Old Hall near Ipswich, and its architecture; dialect words; London dairies; agricultural practices; customs linked with pub-going; historical anecotes.

Papers of George Ewart Evans, including manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poetry, short stories, children's literature, a drama, oral history and autobiographical material, 1932-1986; illustrations, including drawings and photographs, [1932x1985]; journals and pamphlets, 1922-1988; other publications, 1950-1969; notebooks, 1927-1987; oral history, dialect and local history notes, 1941-1988; miscellaneous notes and source materials, [1894x1988]; notes for lectures, [1950]-[1984]; radio, tape transcripts, television and film material, [1947x1988]; correspondence and related material, including official and private letters, 1934-1987; personal items such as certificates, university papers and diaries, 1866-1988; engagement diaries and address books, [1927x1988]; cuttings, reviews and articles by or about George Ewart Evans, 1947-1988; and miscellaneous articles and reference books, 1875, 1906, [1927x1986].

Going to Burton: letters, 1968-9, mainly from David Thomson at the BBC, regarding preparation of a radio programme entitled 'Going to Burton'; some personal details, arrangements for visits and thanks for a book received. See also no. 471.

Letters mainly relating to the publication of The Voices of the Children and other Welsh short stories, from Simon and Schuster, publishers, New York, July 1941 - October 1946; Professor Gwyn Jones, Aberystwyth, editor of The Welsh Review, July 1944 - July 1957 (nos. 414/6-41); and Penmark Press, May 1947 - September 1948. Correspondence between the BBC and George Ewart Evans concerning the possible serialisation and broadcasting of the book, March - August 1955. Pamphlet for a memorial service in Abercynon, November 1934, and a subscription leaflet for the Welsh Review.

Horse Power and Magic: correspondence, 1977-84, primarily from Faber and Faber, regarding preparation and publication of the book, with royalty statements, and permission to transcribe an extract into braille; personal letters including a note of thanks from Victor [Bonham-Carter], 1980 (446/1); others relating to dialect, photographs used for the book, the site of a farm, rejection by Thames Television. Manuscript notes by Peter du Sautoy on alterations and corrections to the text; lists of complimentary copies; illustrations and photograph; Faber press advertisement; copy of press review, 1979; cuttings reporting results of the Suffolk horse section at the Norfolk show, 1979.

Horse Power and Magic, large bundle of manuscript drafts and notes, some written on the reverse of correspondence and discarded typescripts of other works. Includes letters, transcripts of tape-recordings and a radio programme, a rough sketch, press cuttings and photocopied articles, typescript of the author's proposals for this book (dated 1976), a paper on the horse in agriculture, and a programme for the centenary dinner of the Suffolk Horse Society, 1977.

Illustrated Farm Ballads by Will Carleton (New York: 1875). Articles, [?] 1967-73, on agricultural machinery and horticultural practices, vernacular architecture, and the parish of 'Lodden in the Nineteenth Century'.

Illustrations for Horse Power and Magic, comprising photographs, postcards and prints of draught and race horses, horse-drawn implements, advertisements, elecampane, the horseman's herb, a stable building, and harvest; also occasional correspondence, a photographic portrait and two miscellaneous colour prints. (42 items).