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Papers, 1879-1881, relating to the estate of Major Littleton Albert Powys, comprising a list of costs, 1875-1879, relating to the preparation and administration of his will, addressed to the Rev. Charles Francis Powys, as executor of the will, from Newman, Jeans & Co. [solicitors], Clements Inn, London; correspondence, 1879, 1881, addressed to the Rev. Powys from Newman, Jeans & Co. relating to the administration of the estate; and inland revenue legacy receipts and residuary accounts, 1881, also relating to the administration of the estate.

Papers, [?1778]-1838 and undated, relating mainly to family estate matters of the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys. They comprise copies of the wills of William [?Roode], 1708, and of Thomas Powys of Lilford, 1765; an abstract of the settlement on the marriage, 1778, of the Rev. Littleton Powys and Maria Priscilla Shaw, parents of the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys; the will of John Shaw of Wakefield, 1795; probate of the will of the Rev. Littleton Powys, 1825, two copies of a petition relating to the will, 1826, and accounts, 1826, relating to the administration of the effects of the Rev. Littleton Powys; statement, 1832, by Maria Priscilla Powys, wife of the Rev. Littleton Powys, relating to the division of effects, etc., specified in her husband's will; declaration of administration, 1834, of the estate of Maria Priscilla Powys, accounts, 1834, relating to administration of her effects, with an accompanying letter, 1834, to the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys from R. W. & [?F.] Slade, statements of account, 1834, relating to the estate of Maria Priscilla Powys, and details of property to be divided amongst the children of the Rev. Littleton Powys and Maria Priscilla Powys, 1834; copy of a letter, 1835, to the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys from Messrs De Hague & Holmes, stockbrokers, showing details of accounts; declaration of administration, 1837, of the estate of Helena Jane Powys, sister of the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys, and a residuary account, 1837, relating to the estate of Helena Jane Powys; and a deed of settlement made by the sisters of the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys upon his marriage in 1838.

Papers, 1838-1851, relating mainly to family estate matters of the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys. They comprise an assignment from the sisters of the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys to their brother upon his marriage in 1838; declaration of administration, 1839, of the effects of his sister Maria Powys; residuary account of Maria Powys and letters relating to the account, the one, 1839, to Harriet Powys from her brother the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys, and the other, 1840, [?to the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys] from the Office of Stamps and Taxes, London; copy of a deed of Family Arrangement, 1845, between the children of John Lewis Moilliet, father-in-law of the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys, and others; memoranda by Littleton Charles Powys relating to the estate of his father the Rev. Littleton Powys and a note on his grandfather Thomas Powys; a letter, 1848, to Littleton Charles Powys from his [?brother] James Moilliet (containing also family news); residuary account, 1851, of Frances Dorothea Powys, sister of the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys; declarations of administration, 1851, of the effects of Frances Dorothea Powys; and a letter, 1851, to 'Miss Powys', most probably Eleanor Powys, from 'Mr Kemp' relating to the estate of Frances Dorothea Powys.

Papers, 1866-1873 and undated, relating to the wills and estates of the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys, and of members of his family. They comprise a memorandum by Littleton Charles Powys relating to part of the legacy of his father, the Rev. Littleton Powys; declarations of administrations of effects and residuary accounts, 1866, of Mariann (Mary Anne), Harriet and Eleanor Powys, sisters of Littleton Charles Powys; accounts, 1863-1866, of Littleton Charles Powys with Newman, Lyon & Newman, [?solicitors]; probate of the will of Littleton Charles Powys, 1872; an account of the estate of Littleton Charles Powys, [1872], and legacy receipts, 1872, relating to the estate of Littleton Charles Powys, one of which is signed by his sons Major Littleton Albert Powys and Charles Francis Powys; disclaimer, 1872, relating to the trusts of the will of Littleton Charles Powys, and accounts, [1872], relating to the estate of Littleton Charles Powys; letters, 1872, to Amelia Powys, widow of Littleton Charles Powys, from her son Charles Francis Powys and from [?her son-in-law], W. W. Shirley, relating to Littleton Charles Powys's estate; and letters, 1873, to Amelia Powys from Lloyds Banking Company Ltd, Birmingham relating to financial transactions.

Papers, 1879-1890, relating to the estate of the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys, and to the wills and estates of members of his family. They comprise a declaration, 1879, of the administration of the will of Major Littleton Albert Powys, son of the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys; probate, 1886, of the will of Theodore Moilliot, [?brother-in-law] of the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys; copy of a bond, 1889, of Charles Shaw-Lefevre, Viscount Eversley; probate, 1890, of the will of Amelia Powys, wife of the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys; accounts, 1890, relating to the estate of Amelia Powys, and an application, 1890, by the Rev. Charles Francis Powys to obtain grant of probate of the will of his mother, Amelia Powys, together with a schedule of debts owing by Amelia Powys; register, 1890, on account of the estate of Major Littleton Albert Powys, son of the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys; registers, 1890, on account of the estate of the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys; list of documents, 1838-1890, sent to the Rev. Charles Francis Powys relating to the estate of his father; and a declaration, [1890], of the administration of the estate of the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys containing the final division of his estate following the death of his wife, Amelia Powys.

Photographs of Mary Cowper Powys's father the Rev. William Cowper Johnson and (enclosed in a photograph case) her mother Marianne Cowper Johnson, her [?cousins] Maria Theodora Johnson and Catherine Cowper Donne (née Johnson), and [?her maternal aunt Elizabeth Patteson], and a copper printing plate engraved with the name 'Miss Donne', with notes on the photographs in the hand of [Mary's daughter, Marian Powys].

Some eighty letters, 1955-1967, from Gamel Woolsey to Phyllis Playter containing details of her life in Malaga, together with comments on reading matter and on some of John Cowper Powys's works.

Some three hundred and fifty letters, 1945-1969, from Gilbert Turner to John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter, which include references to the novelist Elena Puw Morgan, Welsh language and literature, visits to North Wales, the writer's procurement of library books for the recipients and the preparation of typescript copies of Powys's Dostoievsky (1947) and Rabelais (1948). Turner continued corresponding with Phyllis Playter after John Cowper Powys's death in 1963.

An exercise book containing draft fiction, possibly part of a projected first novel, by John Cowper Powys. The narrative involves characters with the following names: Glendower, Lacrima Colonna, Pattie Vamp, Pol Turdipole and Ray Runnymede. Ff. 20-24 verso, 27-28 verso blank.

A notebook containing heavily worked drafts, apparently parts of an unpublished first novel, by John Cowper Powys. The draft narratives involve characters with the following names: Glendower, Hugh Bigod, Theophilus Grave and Mr Pontifex. Ff. 60, 72 blank; ff. 54-verso, 55 verso, 56 verso, 57 verso-59 verso, 60 verso, 61 verso, 65 (partly)-71 verso, 72 verso-73 inverted text.

A bundle of loose leaves containing heavily worked drafts, possibly parts of an uncompleted early novel, by John Cowper Powys. The drafts involve characters with the following names: Owen Glendower, Mr and Mrs Suckfist, Hugh Bigod, Reverend Mark Pontifex and Lacrima.

A notebook, [1894x1901], containing draft fiction by John Cowper Powys, possibly parts of a projected first novel. The narrative involves characters with the following names: Hugh Bigod, Lacrima Colonna, Suckfist, Pontifex, Taxater and de Woztnak. Ff. 6 verso-30 verso blank.

A notebook containing a list of chapters, with brief synopses, for a projected novel by John Cowper Powys. Among the characters mentioned in the synopsis are Owen Glendower, and Ray and Elspeth Runnymede. The notebook also contains draft poetry by Powys, including a sonnet entitled 'Christmas 1900', together with notes on Welsh history and a description of the City of York. Ff. 88-89 verso inverted text; ff. 31, 33 verso-45 verso, 54 verso, 57-61, 67-80, 86 verso-87 verso, 88 verso-91 verso blank.

A series of loose leaves containing draft fiction by John Cowper Powys, possibly part of a projected first novel. The narrative involves characters with the following names: Glendower, Lacrima, de Woztnak, Theophilus Grave and Towzeler. Ff. 12 verso, 13 verso, 19-verso, 26 verso-27 verso, 36 verso-37 verso blank.

An exercise book containing draft fiction, possibly part of a projected first novel, by John Cowper Powys. The narrative involves characters with the following names: Glendower, Hugh Bigod, Mr de Woztnak and Cousin Taxater. Also included are notes by Powys on 19th-century American writers. Ff. 2-verso, 6-13, 16 blank; ff. 13 verso-15 verso, 16 verso-25 verso inverted text.

A series of loose leaves, mainly foolscap, containing draft fiction by John Cowper Powys, possibly parts of a projected first novel. The narratives involve characters called Glendower and Ray and Elspeth Runnymede. This material is closely related to the papers now designated NLW MSS 23672-6E.

Nine folios of heavily worked draft fiction in the hand of John Cowper Powys involving characters called Dr O'Stein and Mr Gard. This fragment appears to be part of an early unpublished novel by Powys. Ff. 4, 5 inverted text.

Thirty-two letters and ten postcards, 1950-1963, from the American novelist Henry Miller to John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter, mainly in praise of John Cowper Powys and his work, with references also to Miller's own writing and to his family and friends. Also included are corrected typescript extracts from Miller's Plexus (1949) and The Books in My Life (1952) (ff. 76-156), a short typescript account by John Cowper Powys of Henry Miller and his work, [c. 1952]-[c. 1953] (ff. 158-159), and related papers.
The letters were first published, in translation, in Henry Miller & John Cowper Powys, Correspondance privée, ed. and trans. by Norine Haddad (Paris: Criterion, 1994); they were published in English in Proteus and the Magician: The Letters of Henry Miller and John Cowper Powys, ed. by Jacqueline Peltier (Mappowder: Powys Press, 2014).

Typescript notes, with manuscript additions, for a lecture on Homer and typescript notes on the philosophical concepts of Scepticism and Elementalism by John Cowper Powys.

Seventy-nine letters and two postcards, 1932-1958, from John Cowper Powys to the bibliophile Lloyd Emerson Siberell, relating mainly to Powys's work.