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Papers of George Ewart Evans, including manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poetry, short stories, children's literature, a drama, oral history and autobiographical material, 1932-1986; illustrations, including drawings and photographs, [1932x1985]; journals and pamphlets, 1922-1988; other publications, 1950-1969; notebooks, 1927-1987; oral history, dialect and local history notes, 1941-1988; miscellaneous notes and source materials, [1894x1988]; notes for lectures, [1950]-[1984]; radio, tape transcripts, television and film material, [1947x1988]; correspondence and related material, including official and private letters, 1934-1987; personal items such as certificates, university papers and diaries, 1866-1988; engagement diaries and address books, [1927x1988]; cuttings, reviews and articles by or about George Ewart Evans, 1947-1988; and miscellaneous articles and reference books, 1875, 1906, [1927x1986].

January 2024 donation comprises:
Additional papers relating to the life and work of folklorist, writer and schoolteacher George Ewart Evans, comprising diaries, notes, correspondence, photographs, material relating to Evans's published works and to works relating to him, details of centenary and other commemorative events, press cuttings, obituaries and miscellaneous items. 1867-2019

Papers of the Rhys Davies Trust (est. 1991), relating mainly to the administration of the Trust and the Rhys Davies Short Story Competition. Included are five files of papers relating to the Trust’s financial matters, consisting of valuation reports (2014-2019), account, tax, and investment statements together with related correspondence (2008-2014), and a number of cash and cheque books (2008-2018); five files of Trust administrative documents and correspondence (2008-2020), including papers relating to meeting minutes, accounts, publishing matters, website design, royalties (both of the works of Rhys Davies and of Anna Kavan), funding applications, and the Rhys Davies Short Story competition. Correspondents include Meic Stephens, Peter Finch, and M. Wynn Thomas.

Seven further files contain papers (1895-2012) relating to the life and works of Rhys Davies (1901-1978), apparently collected during research for the biography ‘Rhys Davies: a writer’s life’ (Cardigan: Parthian, 2013) by Meic Stephens, secretary of the Trust 1991-2012. The papers consist of correspondence ([1920s]-2012), including letters from Rhys Davies, Lewis Davies, Louis Quinain, Meic Stephens, Fred Blackmore, David Ellis, John Harris, and Gwyn Pritchard; and photographs (1918-1990), mainly of Rhys Davies and friends and family, including Lewis Davies, Gertrude (‘Gertie’) Davies, Anna Kavan, Fred Urquhart, Louise Callender, Colyn Davies, Nina Hamnett, Esther & Charles Lahr, Raymond B. Marriott, Louis Taylor, and Philip Burton; together with notes and cuttings.

Additionally, the archive contains three files of press cuttings and copies of articles (1929-[1987]), collected and written either by or about Rhys Davies, including articles from Keidrych Rhys’s ‘Wales’, and ‘Anglo-Welsh Review’; several items of memorabilia, comprising Rhys Davies’s passport (stamped 1968-1978), OBE medal (awarded 1968), a decorative glass plaque with lettering ’RHYS’ (undated), an ‘MD Magazine’ 10th anniversary medal (1967), and a small box of rosary beads; and nine printed books, consisting of Rhys Davies’ works ‘Marianne’ (London: 1951, signed by author), ‘A Time to Laugh’ (two copies, 1937 & 1938, both with note & signature of Davies), 'Selected Stories' (London/Dublin: [1945], with slip dated 1945), and 'Boy With a Trumpet' (London: 1949, with undated press cutting); together with ‘The Last Sister’ by Fred Urquhart (London: 1950, with note by author), ‘Shakespeare’s Sonnets’ (with slip dated 1945), and translations of Anna Kavan's works ‘L’adversaire Céleste’ (Paris: 1947, with a sketch dated 1951) and ‘Mercury’ (Valencia: 2006, with a letter to the Rhys Davies Trust).

The papers comprise correspondence files, 1918-1982, among them general and political letters to Goronwy Roberts and constituency correspondence; subject files, 1913-1981, including papers concerning foreign affairs (some deriving from Goronwy Roberts's trips abroad), domestic politics, Welsh politics and matters relating to Wales, and files of material concerning Caernarfonshire; various personalia, 1918-1982; and miscellaneous papers, 1900-1997, including printed items and press cuttings.

This description contains the name of an organisation with readers may find offensive.

Other miscellaneous material relating to David Evans (Marian's father), a cutting from Y Tyst 1955, Marian Roberts' CV, notebooks, school exercise books, copies of Annual Report of the Association for the Retarded in Wales (Cymdeithas i'r Araf eu Meddwl yng Nghymru) 1976-82 of which Goronwy Roberts was the president and other miscellaneous papers.

Copies of music periodical "Y Cerddor" dated March 1909, January, February and March 1913 and January 1914.

Draft and notes regarding various children's stories including the radio story "Y Ddraig Goch", notes for "Twpsan" and a typescript of "Faces".

Typed document regarding television programme "The Time of My Life" about women's life stories in Wales.

Scores of "Amser Hyfryd" and handwritten musical scores.

Programmes for Cymanfaoedd Canu held in Aberdare.

Typescripts, handwritten notes and correspondence relating to short stories, radio dramas and other written works by Marian Roberts.

A complete typescript of Sally and Co along with a letter of rejection from Cassell and Company.

Drafts, notes and correspondence regarding several stories including "Y Pedwar Llew Tew", "Y Badell Bridd", "Y Mochyn Du", "Y Ddafad Gorniog", "Yr Hen Iar Gas", "Pwsi Meri Mew" and published copy of Y Pedwar Llew Tew.

Typescripts, notes and correspondence for several stories including "Jane" and a Welsh language radio drama" Yr Hef Fach Binc".

Typed and handwritten stories, "The May Tree", the "Cofio'r Cymoedd" series ("Y Pethau Bach Mawr", "Y Ford", "Y Fam" and one untitled along with a typed script "Ddoe a Heddiw" broadcast in 1951.

This description contains the name of an organisation with readers may find offensive

Other miscellaneous material relating to David Evans (Marian's father), a cutting from Y Tyst 1955, Marian Roberts' CV, notebooks, school exercise books, copies of Annual Report of the Association for the Retarded in Wales (Cymdeithas i'r Araf eu Meddwl yng Nghymru) 1976-82 of which Goronwy Roberts was the president and other miscellaneous papers.

Music notebooks, possibly completed by Marian's father.

And iincomplete typed draft of the short story "Sally and Co."

Correspondence regarding sales of Marian's books "Y Pedwar Llew Tew" and "Awn i Hela".