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Typescript; contract and correspondence with publishers, 1960.

Typescript copies of children’s stories (1950-1956), correspondence (1951-1962), and a cover and extracts of ‘Sunny Stories’ in which Tommy the tugboat stories were published. Several stories were also broadcast on the BBC’s ‘Listen with mother’ series (1951-1954).

Typescript drafts, some with autograph additions and emendations; cuttings of 7 stories first published in Sunny Stories; contract and correspondence with publishers, 1955; and two letters, 1955, from the editor of Sunny Stories.

Typescript with autograph revision; cuttings of 5 stories first published in Sunny Stories; contract and correspondence with publishers, 1956; and letters, 1956, from the editor of Sunny Stories (2) and from the BBC (1).

Rough manuscript draft; typescript; contract, 1973, and correspondence, 1972-4, with publishers; research material.

Typescript with autograph revision; cuttings of 8 stories first published in Sunny Stories; correspondence with publishers, 1957.

Rough manuscript draft; typescript; contract and correspondence with publishers, 1970; research material relating to the Caledonian Canal.

Rough manuscript draft; typescript with autograph revision; galley proof; page proof including illustrations by Val Biro; contract, 1968, and correspondence, 1968-9, with publishers; correspondence, 1968, with the National Maritime Museum.

Typescript with slight autograph revision; contracts, 1957 and n.d., and correspondence, 1961, with publishers.

Typescript; page proof; contract, 1966, and correspondence, 1966-7, with publishers; background research material.

Typescript with some autograph revision; contract, 1964, and correspondence, 1964-5, with publishers; background research material.

Rough manuscript drafts; typescripts with autograph revision; galley proof; contract, 1976, and correspondence, 1975-7, with publishers; research material.

Typescript copies of four children’s stories published in ‘Sunny Stories’, including two extracts.

Correspondence (1955-1956, 1961) and typescript copies of seven Timothy the tractor children’s stories although ‘Timothy’s good deed’ and ‘Timothy does a good deed’ are slightly different versions of the same story. These were submitted to various publishers but most were rejected. ‘Timothy goes to Island Farm’ was broadcast on BBC Wales’ ‘Junior Time’ (1961) and ‘Timothy finds a home’ published in ‘Our Magazine’ (May, 1963). ‘Timothy goes haymaking’ has two versions of the story.

Typescript, with instructions to printers, of Joan E. Cass, The Witch of Witchery Wood (Brockhampton Press, 1973); with publishers' compliment slip dated 27 Nov. 1973.

Typescript with some autograph revision; contract, 1964, and correspondence, 1963-4, with publishers; research material.

Sunny Stories correspondence relating to stories submitted and whether accepted or rejected.

Correspondence and typescript copies of three children’s stories submitted to Marshall Cavendish Partworks Ltd. for inclusion in their ‘Story Teller II’ magazine and tape; none were published. The stories are ‘The dragon with toothache’; ‘Pandora’ [the seaside donkey] and ‘Tell me a story’ (including handwritten notes).

Predominantly short story typescripts submitted to various publishers, especially ‘Sunny Stories’ and the ‘Fishguard County Echo’, including many extracts, particularly from ‘Sunny Stories; and correspondence.