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Where Beards Wag All: 1968-86, primarily letters of thanks and discussions concerning points of interest raised by the book, including: folk-lore and customs; language and dialect; place-names; local characters as sources for oral history; agricultural practices; loss of the old rural culture and migration from the land. Correspondents include: Adrian [?Bell], [1970] (474/12]; Graeme Fife, 1971-2 (474/37-9); David [Gentleman], 1969 (474/47); Bernard Miles, 1970-1, (474/70-2); Lord Tollemache, 1970 (474/116). Typescript notes on ideas stimulated by the book; two press cuttings, 1970 & 1973; scrap paper with telephone number and address. See also no. 430.

Where Beards Wag All: correspondence, 1967-84, primarily from Faber and Faber, concerning preparation and publication of the book (originally entitled 'The Fruitful Field'), discussion of the illustrations by David Gentleman, reviews, permission to and from other writers to use extracts and quotations, the American edition, work of Matthew Evans, royalty statements, mention of Robert Graves, 1970 (430/68); other letters relating to background research, on maltsters, tape recordings; note from Bernard Miles, 17 June 1970 (430/111). Handwritten and typed notes on the migration of workers to the maltings in Burton; lists of complimentary copies, corrections and insertions, list of illustrations, dust jackets for the hardback and paperback editions. See also no. 474.

Welsh Short Stories: letters 1957-9, relating to selection and publishing of the stories, from publishers, literary agents, individuals at the BBC, notably Emyr Humphreys, 1957 (420/2-3), and from or about various authors, including: Curtis Brown re Rhys Davies 1957 (420/8-11); J. M. Dent & Sons re Dylan Thomas, 1957 (420/14-15); Victor Gollancz re Gwyn Thomas, 1957-8, (420/18-21); John Greve, 1957 (420/22-4); Terry Hawkes, 1957-8 (420/25-32); Cledwyn Hughes, 1958 (420/35-6); Glyn [? Jones], 1957-8 (420/37-40); Gwyn Jones, 1958 (420/41); [William] Glynne [Jones], 1957 (420/45-8); Pearn Pollinger & Higham re Margiad Evans, 1957 (420/55-7); Dilys Rowe, 1958 and n.d (420/62-4); D. J. Williams, 1957 (420/66-7); Enid Williams, 1957-8 (420/68-75).

Typescript Welsh poems by Peate, 1974, 1980, on the deaths of his brother and son, the subject of hospital, and year's end.

File of correspondence, programme, notes and written exercises from a Welsh language summer school at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, 1975.

Welsh Folk Museum, St Fagans: correspondence, 1969-86, mainly from staff at the museum, particularly Vincent Phillips, Keeper of the Department of Oral Traditions and Dialect, and including some letters from Iorwerth Peate, 1970-1 (438/4, 438/6, 438/14, 438/17). Topics include: recording oral history; thanks for tapes, books and articles; George Ewart Evans's proposed move back to Wales (1971); his work as a writer and his autobiography; folk-lore, especially Beddgelert and the Mari Lwyd.

WEA: correspondence, 1963-84, mainly from the Workers' Educational Association and University of Cambridge Board of Extra-mural Studies, relating to lecturing work on the subjects of rural life, folk-lore and dialect. Syllabuses and programmes for WEA and extra-mural classes, 1962-70; report on a pensioners' class outing, 1965; guidance notes for tutors and the class secretary; lists of members, 1973-6; memoranda; typed transcript of thirteenth century accounts. Stray letter, 1971, from the BBC, concerning tape recordings and a forthcoming interview.