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Diary of Phyllis Playter for 1972. The volume contains memoranda on f. 2 verso and diary entries for the inclusive dates 2 January - 8 February (ff. 6 verso-25) and 12 February - 21 February (ff. 27-31 verso), thereafter becoming intermittent. On 1 March (f. 36) the death of Marian Powys "about 1 AM New York time" is noted. Ff. 3-6, 25 verso-26 verso, 32-35 verso, 36 verso-59, 60-84 verso and 85 verso-191 verso are blank.

Diary of Phyllis Playter for 1930. The diary is written up for the inclusive dates 1 January - 3 February (pp. 1-35), 12 February - 6 March (pp. 43-65), 11-24 March (pp. 70-83), 27 March - 1 April (pp. 86-91), 12-23 April (pp. 102-113), 1-8 May (pp. 121-128), 10 May (p. 130), 22-31 May (pp. 142-151), 4 September (p. 247), 15 September (p. 258) and 13-23 November (pp. 317-327) and there are memoranda on pp. 366-370 but the volume is otherwise blank. A dried plant is inserted between pp. 160 and 161 and a feather between pp. 314 and 315. A press cutting relating to Philippa (Katie) Powys's novel The Blackthorn Winter (1930) and a receipt dated 8 June 1929 from Mme Bernier, clothing establishment ("robes & manteaux"), Paris, both originally loose in the volume, have been inserted at p. i.

Diary of Phyllis Playter for 1978. The volume contains diary entries and memoranda, most of which are brief, for the inclusive dates 22 January (f. 20 verso), 7 February (f. 28 verso), 10 March (f. 44), 15-16 March (ff. 46 verso-47 verso), 18 March (f. 48), 23-29 March (ff. 50 verso-53 verso), 1-2 April (f. 55-verso), 9-10 April (f. 59-verso), 13 April (f. 61), 15 April (f. 62), 17-20 April (entry for 18 April deleted) (ff. 63-64 verso), 22-23 April (ff. 65 verso-66), 28 April (f. 68 verso), 15-16 May (entry for 16 May deleted) (f. 77-verso), 20-21 May (entry for 21 May deleted) (ff. 79 verso-80), 27 May (f. 83), 31 May (f. 85), 8 June (f. 89), 12 June (f. 91), 23 June (f. 96 verso), 5 July (f. 102 verso), 19 July (f. 109 verso), 1-4 August (ff. 116-117 verso), 19 August (f. 125), 21 August (f. 126), 25-26 August (entry for 26 August deleted) (f. 128-verso), 28 August ('X' mark) (f. 129 verso), 1 September (f. 131 verso), 6 September (f. 134), 8 September (f. 135), 12-16 September (entries for 13 & 16 September deleted) (ff. 137-139), 18-20 September (entries for 18 & 20 September deleted) (ff. 140-141), 23-26 September (entry for 25 September deleted) (ff. 142 verso-144), 30 September (f. 146), 2 October (f. 147), 6 October (f. 149), 10 October (f. 151), 12 October (f. 152), 20 October (f. 156), 28 October (f. 160), 30-31 October (f. 161-verso), 7 November (f. 165), 21 November (f. 172) and f. 198 verso. Ff. 6 verso-20, 21-28, 29-43 verso, 44 verso-46, 47 verso, 48 verso-50, 54-verso, 56-58 verso, 60-verso, 61 verso, 62 verso, 65, 66 verso-68, 69-76 verso, 78-79, 80 verso-82 verso, 83 verso-84 verso, 85 verso-88 verso, 89 verso-90 verso, 91 verso-96, 97-102, 103-109, 110-115 verso, 118-124 verso, 125 verso, 126 verso-127 verso, 129, 130-131, 132-133 verso, 134 verso, 135 verso-136 verso, 139 verso, 141 verso-142, 144 verso-145 verso, 146 verso, 147 verso-148 verso, 149 verso-150 verso, 151 verso, 152 verso-155 verso, 156 verso-159 verso, 160 verso, 162-164 verso, 165 verso-171 verso, and 172 verso-198 are blank. Press cuttings, previously loose inside the volume, are inserted at f. i.

Diary of John Cowper Powys for the period 1 June-31 December 1929, the first in an unbroken series that ends in 1961 (see NLW MSS 22206-41B). Commencing with his departure from New York on a visit to England, it was probably started for the benefit of his companion, Phyllis Playter, who remained in the USA (cf. NLW MS 23172C, f. 7). The diary also includes accounts and miscellaneous jottings (f. iv; pp. 1, 5, 14-19, 46, 400). Selections from the diary have been published in Petrushka and the Dancer: The diaries of John Cowper Powys 1929-1939, ed. by Morine Krissdóttir (Manchester, New York and Paris, 1995).

A heavily worked draft of an unpublished novella by John Cowper Powys, apparently written in 1952 (see f. 46), entitled 'The Death of God or Jack and Jill and the Absolute'; together with notes on Classical Greek (ff. 61-72), written during Powys's later years.

Two incomplete draft novels by John Cowper Powys, the first (ff. 1-13, originally numbered 86-98, headed 'Chapter 2') being a fragment apparently excluded from a draft of Rodmoor (1916), the second (ff. 14-128, originally numbered 2-115) being a draft of chapters 1-4 of a novel set in East Sussex in 1920.

An exercise book containing draft manuscript poetry by John Cowper Powys, titles including 'A modern Melody' and 'By the Arun'. Ff. 7-verso, 11 verso, 12 verso, 16 verso, 17 verso, 18 verso, 19 verso, 20 verso-22 verso and 25 verso-39 verso blank.

Draft manuscript poetry by John Cowper Powys, which include a poem entitled 'A Panegyric upon the World'.

Draft manuscript poems by John Cowper Powys which would later be included in his poetical anthology Wolf's Bane (1916), together with one heavily-worked poem (ff. 8-10) which does not seem to have appeared in the volume.

Manuscript drafts of five poems by John Cowper Powys which later appeared in his poetic anthology Odes and other Poems (1896), and one which appeared in Poems (1899).

Draft manuscript and some typescript poems by John Cowper Powys, including one poem (f. 3) in the hand of Phyllis Playter.

Drafts of poems by John Cowper Powys, published between 1896 and 1926; a heavily worked draft of an incomplete poem in two cantos, published in A Review of English Literature (January 1963); and drafts of over fifty poems, forty-one of which were published posthumously in Horned Poppies ... (1986), the remainder, including a blank verse autobiography, as yet unpublished.

A hardcover notebook containing incomplete manuscript drafts by Phyllis Playter of a prose piece entitled 'Where Other Rivers Flow'. The back of the volume contains diary entries and personal memoranda by Phyllis Playter, in which she mentions John Cowper Powys and the health of her father Franklin Playter; a note (f. 65 verso) by Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir suggests the date 1929 for at least part of this section. A Joplin Printing Company label is pasted on the inside front cover. Inserts comprise a printed representation of the frontispiece of J. L. Campbell's novel The Miracle of Peille (between ff. 41 verso and 42) and a feather (between ff. 56 verso and 57). Ff. 2 verso, 9-53, 54-56 verso, 64-65, and 76 verso are blank.

Notebook of John Cowper Powys, [c. 1895]-1901, containing heavily revised drafts of over twenty poems, including an early version of 'To A. C. Swinburne' (ff. 21 verso-22), published in Odes and Other Poems (London, 1896), and of 'Written on Monday Evening March 29' (f. 14 recto-verso; cf. NLW MS 21930E, f. 162), published in Horned Poppies ... (North Walsham, 1986); the opening of a verse play (ff. 25-28); and two prose fragments (ff. 9-13 and 46-47 verso (reverse text)), apparently of Powys's unpublished first novel (see NLW MSS 23672-23676), referred to as 'Work without a name' in Powys's Autobiography (1934), pp. 314-315. Leaves not originally part of the notebook but found loose inside have been filed at the beginning of the volume (ff. 1-8).

Early poems by John Cowper Powys, some in draft form. They include a poem addressed to Powys's mother (ff. 1-4), one booklet labelled 'Very early poems by J.C.P.' (ff. 5-7), one poem dated August 1904 (ff. 8-9), another inscribed 'Sherborne Abbey - March 18th 1888. J.C.P. aged 16 or 15' (f. 11), and one poem in Latin (f. 19). Together with an envelope bearing a note of its (former) contents in Phyllis Playter's hand.

An exercise book containing manuscript drafts of early poems by John Cowper Powys, including 'The Occult Madonna' of 1906.

Papers, 1867-1886, mostly relating to the Reverend Charles Francis Powys's accession to the livings of St Michael's Church, Shirley, Derbyshire and of St Catherine's Church, Montacute, Somerset. They comprise a Declaration of Ordination of Charles Francis Powys as deacon, dated 17 March 1867; a Declaration of Ordination of Charles Francis Powys into the priesthood, dated 8 March 1868; a Declaration of Admittance of Charles Francis Powys into the living of St Michael's Church, Shirley and the Declaration of Faith of Charles Francis Powys on accepting the living, both dated 25 February 1872, together with a further Declaration of Faith of Charles Francis Powys, dated 1872; a licence to serve as assistant curate at St Peter's Church, Dorchester granted to Charles Francis Powys, dated 24 November 1879, and the Declaration of Faith of Charles Francis Powys made at the same church, dated 30 November 1879; a Declaration of Admittance of Charles Francis Powys to the living of St Catherine's Church, Montacute and a Presentation of the living of the same church to Charles Francis Powys, both dated 5 November 1885, together with a letter, dated 6 November 1885, to Charles Francis Powys from his father-in-law the Reverend William Cowper Johnson congratulating Powys on his accession to the living; and the Declaration of Faith made at St Catherine's Church, Montacute by Charles Francis Powys, dated 3 January 1886.

First and second autograph drafts, 1940-1941, both extensively revised, of an uncompleted novel by John Cowper Powys entitled 'Edeyrnion'. The work, set in Corwen and containing autobiographical elements, was abandoned in 1941.

An address in Welsh by John Cowper Powys, apparently delivered at an Eisteddfod in Corwen.

A typescript, [1927], of John Cowper Powys's essay 'Elusive America', published in the collection Elusive America, ed. Paul Roberts (London, 1994). The typescript is headed by a note, apparently in the hand of Llewelyn Powys (f. 1).