SOURCE: "Three Prose Writers: Caradoc Evans, 1878-1945," in The Dragon Has Two Tongues: Essays on Anglo-Welsh Writers and Writing, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1968, pp. 64-80.

In the following excerpt, Jones offers his personal reminiscences of Evans.

I first met Caradoc Evans in the company of Dylan Thomas in, I think, 1934. It seems to me strange now that I should at that time have sought him out, because, at fifty-six, he had been, for many years, a hated and notorious figure in Wales, the author of such works of calculated provocation as My People, Capel Sion, My Neighbours, Nothing to Pay, Wasps and Taffy. (I wonder if Caradoc's early books would have aroused such fury and attracted so much publicity if they had been given titles less jeering and inflammatory, say Tales of Bygone Wales, or Remembering Aberteifi.) He was regarded in Wales as the enemy of everything...