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1982 Donation:.

1982 Donation: Research notes (1 box) of H.J.F., 1966-67, mainly concerned with the distribution of blood groups in the United Kingdom, with special reference to Wales, comprising notes and drafts for Ada C. Kopc, The Distribution of the Blood Groups in the United Kingdom (London, 1970), lecture notes of Dr. Kopc, 1963-65, and offprints of articles by Elizabeth S. Brown and I. Morgan Watkin, 1963-67; correspondence, 1963-68, mainly from Ada C. Kopc, A.E. Mourant and R.A. Pelham; miscellaneous papers and correspondence on the archaeology of the Channel Islands, Cornwall and Devon, 1963-65.

Copies of 'An Accurate Survey and Measurement of the Island of Guernsey ... by William Gardner 1787', sheets 1 and 2.

Ordnance Survey charts of Aberystwyth, 1905, 1912 (the southern chart has ownership of land holdings and boundaries outlined in watercolour by Fleure).

Slides: (a) one wooden slide box of labelled black-and-white slides, some of USA travel, majority of anthropological interest illustrating racial features, (b) one box of labelled colour slides of racial types, (c) one box inscribed 'Wales types negatives', (d) four boxes of labelled slides of USA, (e) one box inscribed 'The loess and settlement farms', and (f) one box inscribed 'Town and village'.

(A) Manuscript talk for Armistice Day, 5 pp., (b) manuscript paper on carbon dating, 5 pp., (c) 'Thoughts on human evolution', manuscript pages noted A-r, (d) 'The almighty', manuscript talk, 5 pp. (the last three items were written when Fleure was almost blind), (e) poem: 'Lihou Isle off Guernsey', and (f) 'On All Souls Eve. A mystic's apology', signed H. J. Fleure (written in Wales).

(A) Manuscript talk on tolerance, untitled, pages noted A-e, c.1950, (b) 'The study of man and the welfare of society', typescript 17 pp., (c) typescript talk on racial and social diversity, untitled, 4 pp., and (d) manuscript talk on world religions, untitled, 1 p.

(A) 'Parallels between India and Europe: a sketch of the story of civilization', 5 pp., (b) 'Cities', 8 pp., (c) 'Brittany', 3 pp., [?1911], (d) 'The church' (on architecture), 1 p., and (e) 'Peoples of the world and their homes', 3 pp.

Work on A natural history of man in Britain; conceived as a study of changing relations between men and environments (first published in the New Naturalist Series, London 1951, revised in collaboration with Margaret Davies, London, 1970). Copy of Readers Union edition, 1959, with manuscript alterations by Fleure, miscellaneous pages of corrections and additional material for revised ed., many in Fleure's hand with Mrs Fleure's transcriptions, and typed versions. (Fleure was almost blind when he undertook this task). Two letters from Sir Dudley Stamp, 1966, concerning proposed revision of book, with, on verso of letter of 6 June, Fleure's plans for alterations and additions. Twenty-five letters from Dr Margaret (Peggy) Davies, Dec. 1966-Aug. 1967 during collaboration, discussing changes and current ecological and archaeological ideas etc.

'The Guernsey farmhouse', MS and typescript. Two separate typescript accounts entitled 'Guernsey', with notes of 'suggestions' by K. C. Edwards.

Maps of Guernsey and Channel Islands, drawn by Fleure (ink). Printed material concerning Channel Islands. Typescript and manuscript account of life in Channel Islands under German occupation during the second world war, 6 pp., 1st page dated 13 June 1944, last page dated 5 May 1945. (A xerox copy of this document is in the Dept of Documents, Imperial War Museum, London).