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The file includes pamphlets published by the Communist Party Wales and the Communist Party Great Britain, pamphlets relating to Wales and pamphlets by Harry Pollitt, John Gollan, Bert Ramelson, William Gallacher and T. E. Nicholas.

The file includes letters to Bert Pearce, 1965-1996, mainly from fellow Communists in Wales, including Gwyn Alf Williams, Hywel Francis, Dr Julian Tudor Hart and Idris Cox, with material relating to T. E. Nicholas.

The file includes material relating to Councillor Edgar Evans, or 'Edgar the Ironmonger' as he was known, who served a prison sentence of nine months in 1936 for the part he played in the fight to establish a lodge of the South Wales Miners' Federation at the Taff Merthyr Colliery. There is a photograph of the first group of those committed for trial at Taff Merthyr, and twelve photographs of the demonstration and meeting in support of them. The file also includes greetings to Edgar Evans from Tom Mann, Harry Pollitt, and T. E. Nicholas, 1936, with related correspondence, and Edgar Evans' County Council Election leaflet, 1946.

The file comprises papers relating to memorial meetings and funerals of Harry Pollitt, 1960, Len Jefferies, 1979, Dai Francis 1981, Alistair Wilson 1981 (with photographs), George Baker 1982, Dora Cox, 2000, and the retirement of Annie Powell, 1983 and others, with material relating to T. E. Nicholas, 'Niclas y Glais'.

The file includes memorial meeting leaflets, obituaries written by Bert Pearce, and information about members of the Communist Party Wales, 1959-1999, including amongst others, Cliff True, Idris Cox, Dave Priscott, Dr Alistair Wilson, Will Paynter, Dr Frank Jarman, Tommy Hanley, Margaret Hunter, Dai Francis, Jack Howells, Iorwerth Badger Price, Howie Martin, Arthur Lewis Jones, Stella Garrett Jones, Bill Waters, Edgar Evans, Frederick Charles Palmer, Dora Cox, Len Jefferies, Dai Dan Evans, Richard Beamish, T. E. Nicholas, Jack Jones, George Baker, George Strangward, and Jim David.