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Manuscript and typed notes and occasional correspondence for lectures, some undated, but the majority given between 1953 and 1969, on the subjects of domestic country crafts, the history of village life, changes in the rural community due to mechanisation, rural beliefs and customs, horse-lore, dialect, history of ideas on farming, recording of oral evidence and links with documentary sources, and architecture.

Private letters, 1953[?]-86, concerning dialect, local characters and places, discussions of the book, letters of thanks for copies received. Correspondents include: Fred Urquhart, 1956 (460/6); Aneirin Talfan Davies at the BBC, 1957 (460/18).

"Cotman-Color" postcard showing The Great Court, Trinity College, Cambridge. Posted 29th June 1953 to Mrs Edgar Jones & Mrs Stanley Lewis, Barry, signed "G" ( possibly Gwyneth ).

Two typescript letters, 1953-1955, from Vernon Watkins, Pennard, to poet and publisher John Lehmann, the first, 13 November 1953, concerning the death of Watkins's close friend Dylan Thomas four days earlier (f. 46), the second, 8 August 1955, concerning his foreword to Dylan Thomas, Adventures in the Skin Trade (London, 1955) (f. 47).

Miscellaneous: Coronation souvenir card, 1953; ration book, 1953-4; list of family savings books; pamphlet and subscription form from Llantrisant town trust, 1958; premium bonds, 1958-77; invitation to royal garden party, 1975; passport guidance notes, 1976; programme for a literary dinner, 1976; pamphlet commemorating Morley Kennerly, 1985; cards and family photographs of Florence Evans's eightieth birthday, 1987; and a diet sheet.

Colour print of the Brecon Beacons by John Warwick Smith, 1795; two black and white sillhouette cards showing country scenes; and the business card of John Harrison & Sons, Dronfield, tool manufacturers [? c. 1953].

Two letters, 16-18 November 1953, from [the Rev.] S[ydney] B[owen] Williams, Vicar of St Martins, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, to Dr [Daniel] Jones, concerning arrangements for Dylan Thomas's funeral. Thomas died in New York on 9 November 1953 and would be buried in Laugharne on 24 November.

Cerdyn post, 3 Rhagfyr 1952, oddi wrth [y Parch.] Gwilym R. Tilsley, Bae Colwyn, at Miss [Sara] Roberts, JP, Trelan, Pwllheli, yn diolch iddi, ar ffurf englyn, am ei chroeso. = A postcard, 3 December 1952, from [the Rev.] Gwilym R. Tilsley, C[olwyn] Bay, to Miss [Sara] Roberts, JP, Trelan, Pwllheli, thanking her, in the form of an englyn, for her welcome.

Manuscript and typed notes taken from medical journals, on the subject of cyanosis in infants linked to pollution in water, and two copies of an article by George Ewart Evans, entitled 'Guns Before Water', 1952.

Miscellaneous manuscript and typescript notes, transcripts and occasional press cuttings relating to old domestic crafts, agricultural practices, horse-lore, condition and life of the agricultural labourer, smugglers, oral history, customs and dialect.

Correspondence from the BBC, June 1951 - August 1955, relating to radio broadcasts of 'The Ajax Gold' and The Voices of the Children; a cutting from Radio Times, August 1955; correspondence and contracts from the Children's Film Foundation, March 1955 - August 1957, relating to 'A Ship in the Forest' and 'The Crow's Nest'.

Two articles, with notes and relevant press cuttings attached, on Christmas customs, particularly in Wales, and on home brewing.

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].

Manuscript and typescript notes, press cuttings and other printed material relating to bell ringing, horses, rural life and traditions, folk tales, dialect, domestic architecture (including rubbings and sketches of merchants' marks), Herman Biddell, a Suffolk horse breeder, extracts from reference works and a paper on the horse in agriculture.

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.

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.

Handwritten and typed transcripts of an inventory, 1844, bible inscriptions, 1698-1926, invitation cards, 1805, school log-book, 1800-99, award (valuation), 1902, lease agreement, 1903, and a tenancy agreement, 1919.