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Press cuttings, 1950-6, relating to poor water supplies and infant deaths; two issues of the Deben Bulletin, July 1950 and April 1951.

A copy of Clifford Dyment, First Day (London, 1935), inscribed by the author 'To Mummy wishing you a very happy birthday. March 1956' (front endpaper). This was the author's first book.

Autograph copy, [1956], of Margiad Evans's poem 'The Thunderstorm', dated 1954 but said to have been written while a patient at the [Kent and Sussex] Hospital, Tunbridge Wells, two years earlier. The poem is apparently unpublished.

View of Windsor End, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, published by Francis Frith. Posted from Amersham, 22 Aug 1970. Addressed to Miss G V Vaughan Jones, Barry.

A group of letters from Jim Adlam, Abercynon, March 1941 - December 1953, concerning discussion of 'Let Dogs Delight, Ben Knowledge' and other contemporary Welsh literature; a fire which destroyed George Ewart Evans's library; air raids on Cardiff; wartime politics; mutual acquaintances; Evans's feelings of alienation in East Anglia; a letter from Adlam's daughter on her father's death, 24 March 1955; notes on Welsh local characters, on the reverse of a typescript story about a donkey on a church roof.

Llythyr, 5 Ebrill 1955, oddi wrth D. J. Williams, Abergwaun, at Huw Davies, [Llandaf], yn mynegi ei farn ynghlŷn â Mudiad Gweriniaethol Cymru, a sefydlwyd gan Davies ymysg eraill. = Letter, 5 April 1955, from D. J. Williams, Fishguard, to Huw Davies, [Llandaf], giving his views on the Welsh Republican Movement, of which Davies was a founder member.

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).

A copy of Clifford Dyment, Experiences and Places: New Poems (London, 1955) containing pencil annotations by the author.
These include notes headed 'Capricorn / middleclass / heart in middle' (front endpaper); notes relating to the poems 'Derbyshire born, Monmouth is my home' (p. 7) and 'The Corner Shop' (p. 19); and an early version of 'Bahnhofstrasse' (p. 36).

Three letters, September-October 1954, from John Cowper Powys, Corwen, to Mr [Henry] Evans Jones, [of Edward Jones & Son, solicitors], relating to his and Phyllis Playter's purchase of 1 Waterloo, Bethania, Blaenau Ffestiniog.

Notebook, 1954, containing notes on literature, notably the work of Capell Lofft and the Bloomfield brothers, and descriptions of dreams experienced by George Ewart Evans.

A letter, November 1954 (dated 'Calan Gaeaf MCMLIV' [1 November 1954] but completed at a later date), and decorated with a coloured inscription, from the artist and writer David Jones to the dramatist, poet and critic Saunders Lewis.
The letter contains personal news and refers to the Lewis's contribution to a radio broadcast about David Jones transmitted on the Welsh Home Service, 29 October 1954 (see NLW, Alun Oldfield-Davies Papers 27 for a copy of the script).

"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 ).

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.

Llythyr awyrbost, 28 Gorffennaf [19]53, oddi wrth y dringwr mynyddoedd Charles [Evans], yn Kathmandu, Nepal, at y Parch. Robert Evans, Derwen, yn rhoi adroddiad yn y fan a'r lle o fywyd bugeiliol y Sherpa brodorol ym mhentref Khumjung, Nepal. Evans oedd dirprwy arweinydd y cyrch ar Everest ym 1953, a arweiniwyd gan John Hunt; ysgrifennwyd y llythyr deufis ar ôl ymgais aflwyddiannus Evans a Tom Bourdillon i gyrraedd y copa ar 26 Mai 1953, tri diwrnod cyn esgyniad Tenzing a Hillary. = An air mail letter, 28 July [19]53, from the mountaineer Charles [Evans], in Kathmandu, Nepal, to the Rev. Robert Evans, Derwen, giving an eyewitness account of the pastoral life of native Sherpas in the village of Khumjung, Nepal. Evans was deputy leader of the 1953 British Everest expedition, led by John Hunt; the letter was written two months after Evans's unsuccessful attempt to reach the summit of Everest with Tom Bourdillon on 26 May 1953, three days before Tenzing and Hillary's ascent.

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.

A letter, 30 August 1916, in pencil, from the Irish nationalist [Seán] Hales of Bandon, County Cork, then a prisoner at Frongoch Internment Camp, Merioneth, to his friend [William] McDonnell, Bandon, in which he describes life during his incarceration and pays tribute to McDonnell's wife, [Kathleen], for her support (f. 34). The letter was apparently smuggled out of the camp by a visitor.
Also included is a typescript transcript of the letter, [?20 cent., second ¼], apparently supplying the fragments of text now lost in the original (ff. 35-36). Hales was later a member of the Dáil Éireann but was assassinated on 7 December 1922.

Correspondence between George Ewart Evans and the Ministry of Health, the local education authority, Socialist Medical Association, local MPs, and the New Statesman, concerning the inadequate and polluted water supply in Blaxhall, and the urgency of establishing a piped system; includes a draft letter by the author to Aneurin Bevan, March 1950, regarding the shortage and poor quality of water at the village school and school house.