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Papers relating to and created by Margiad Evans (Peggy Eileen Whistler), [1930s]-[1958x1965], comprising material for an unpublished critical biography of Margiad Evans, compiled by W. Arnold Thorpe, [1936x1965], including transcripts by Thorpe of poems, prose and letters by Margiad Evans, scripts of radio broadcasts and extracts of reviews of Margiad Evans's published prose works; correspondence relating to information on Margiad Evans; biographical and related material; Whistler family photographs; notes by W. Arnold Thorpe and source material; together with manuscripts and papers of Margiad Evans, including drafts and copies of poems, some unpublished [c. 1945]-[1958]; unpublished and published prose works, [c. 1930s]-[1958]; notebooks and journals, which include drafts of poems and prose pieces, 1942-[1950s]; correspondence, mainly from Margiad Evans to her husband, 1934-1958; reviews of Autobiography and A Ray of Darkness[1943-1952]; drawings including drawings representing eighteen out of the thirty illustrations for Alfred Williams, Tales from the Panchatantra (Oxford, 1930); and family papers, 1939-[1950s].

Additional papers donated October 2021: see added Series.

Copies of letters from W.A. Thorpe to relatives, friends and publishers, requesting information on Margiad Evans, with their replies, 1936-55, in the original arrangement, partly by subject, partly by correspondent. Correspondents include Sir H. Idris Bell (1 letter, 1964), Sir Basil Blackwell (8 letters, 1963-65), Arthur Calder-Marshall (1 letter, 1963), Lord David Cecil (1 letter, 1963), Winifred Ellerman ('Bryher', 4 letters, 1963-64), David Garnett (3 letters, 1963), Sir Frederick Golla (2 letters, 1963), Robert Herring (1 letter, 1963), Glyn Jones (3 letters, 1964), Professor Gwyn Jones (2 letters, 1963), C. Day Lewis (4 letters, 1963-64), Keidrych Rhys (4 letters, 1963-65), Derek Savage (3 letters, 1963), Michael Williams (7 letters, 1963-65).

Pedigree and draft chapter on the Whistler family, draft outline of W.A. Thorpe's study of Margiad Evans with plan of illustrations and select bibliography of her works.

Notes from material lent by Winifred Ellerman ('Bryher') including a brief calendar of Margiad Evans's Irish journal and copies of 16 drawings by her.

Photographs of Margiad Evans and the Whistler family, of places associated with her and of drawings by her, 1920-65: 35/1 The Whistler sisters, Ross 1920 (Left: Nancy Esther Whistler; centre: Betty Brackett Whistler; right: Peggy Eileen Whistler); 35/2 Peggy Eileen Whistler, Ross 1925. Age 17; 35/3 Margiad Evans, portrait by Peter North, London, Feb.-March 1936; 35/4 The Whistler family, Lavender Cottage, Bridstow, near Ross, early 1936 (Left to right: Nancy Esther Whistler, Betty Brackett Whistler, Peggy Eileen Whistler, and their mother, Isabel Katharine Whistler); 35/5 Margiad Evans with 'Sian Evans' (Nancy Esther Whistler, on left), and their dogs, Daniel Nathaniel Spaniel Smith and Gladys. Springherne Guesthouse, Bull's Hill, near Ross, c. 1938; 35/6 Margiad Evans with Gladys, Ross Station, late 1939; 35/7 Margiad Evans at work on her unfinished book on Emily Bronte, at the Black House, Elkstone, co Gloucester. From a photograph in the Cheltenham Chronicle, 13 May 1950; 35/8 Margiad Evans with her daughter Cassandra, and dog Rosie, probably at Leckhampton Road, Cheltenham, c. 1953; 35/9 Anne Evans, Margiad Evans's grandmother, wife of Henry Radcliffe Whistler, c. 1850; 35/10 Cours St. Denis, Loches, France, c. 1925. [Compare The Wooden Doctor]; 35/11 Coch-Y-b-g, Pontlyfni, Caernarfon, where Margiad Evans stayed in 1930 with the Lloyd Jones family. [Compare The Wooden Doctor]. 3 photographs taken by George Thomas, Caernarfon, 1965; 35/12 17 Brookend, Ross, thought to be the home of Margiad Evans and her mother, 1934-35; 35/13 Chest's Mill, The Brookend, Ross. [Compare Creed]; 35/14 Lavender Cottage, Bridstow, Ross. Photograph taken 1963; 35/15-16 Springherne Guesthouse, Bull's Hill, Ross, c. 1938. The guesthouse was kept by Margiad Evans, her sister Nancy, and friend Helen Blackwell, 1936-39; 35/17-18 The Black House, Elkstone, Gloucester. [Compare A Ray of Darkness]; 35/19-20 Drawings for Alfred Williams, Tales from the Panchatantra (Oxford 1930) (cf. Margiad Evans MSS 941-959) - 19 King Putraka and the Magic Boots - 20 Mother Shandalee; 35/21 A Penny for the Guy, c. 1934. [Compare Turf or Stone, p. 260]; 35/22 A Party for the Nightingale [Compare Welsh Review vol. vii (1948), p. 85]; 35/23 Scene at Llangarron, Archenfield, c. 1948-49. Pastels; 35/24 Scene at Gloucester, c. 1948-49. Pastels; 35/25 Scene at Elkstone, c. 1950. Sepia drawing; 35/26 Dream drawing, made at Elkstone, c. 1951, after a visit to St. John's Church, Elkstone, seen on left; 35/27 Rapunzel, pen and ink, n.d.; 35/28 Oats and Corn, four drawings for a Christmas card, possibly c. 1934. Negatives of nos. 35/1-10, 15-16, 19-23, 26-28, and duplicate prints of nos. 35/1-16, 19-23, 26-28, have been transferred to the Department of Prints, Drawings and Maps.

Letters from Margiad Evans to friends and relatives, 1936-55, in the original arrangement, partly by correspondent, partly by provenance. Correspondents include Winifred Ellerman ('Bryher', 1 letter, 1952), Robert Herring (1 letter, 1941), Professor Gwyn Jones (18 letters, 1938-45), Derek Savage (16 letters, 1950-51), Michael Williams (103 letters, 1943-45, cf. Margiad Evans MSS., correspondence).

Material for an unpublished critical biography of Margiad Evans, compiled by the late W. Arnold Thorpe and presented by his widow, Mrs Josephine Thorpe.

Notebooks containing drafts and fair copies of poems, some unpublished [c. 1946-56]. No. 1 includes a fair copy of Poems from Obscurity (London, 1947).

'A Fairy Story', a fair copy of a short story, illustrated by the author with pen and ink drawings, c. 1930s.