Autobiography of Margiad Evans,
- NLW MS 23997D.
- File
- 1941-1942 /
A collection of seven holograph chapters by Peggy Eileen Whistler ('Margiad Evans'), written 1941-1942, and published, with a further six chapters, as 'Autobiography' (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1943). One chapter, 'Before the Snow' is dated 'March 1942' and described as an 'original first draft' (f. 93). The chapters are accompanied by two letters, September 1956, from Whistler to Alan and Dorothy Hancox.
The chapters include Winter Journal (ff. 6-55), Before the Snow (ff. 56-93), The Field (ff. 94-101), Looking at a Star (ff. 102-107), The Autobiography of an Afternoon (ff. 108-131), Morning (ff. 132-140), and Conclusion, Under the Oak Tree (ff. 141-160).
Evans, Margiad, 1909-1958