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Sixteen letters and ten postcards, 1946-1949, to John Cowper Powys from his sister, Lucy Penny, containing mostly family news, including accounts of time spent in Kenya with her brother and sister-in-law William (Willie) and Elizabeth Powys and daughter and son-in-law Mary and Gerard Casey; together with four enclosed letters, one separate letter and two postcards to John Cowper Powys from his niece Mary Casey and one postcard to John Cowper Powys from both Lucy and their sister Philippa (Katie) Powys.

Twenty letters and one telegram, 1937-1939, to John Cowper Powys from his sister Marian Powys, mostly containing news of family and friends, including the deaths of Marian's and John Cowper Powys's brother Llewelyn Powys and of John Cowper Powys's aged dog (both in 1939), and the death of John Cowper Powys's publisher and tour manager G. Arnold Shaw in 1937. Enclosures comprise one letter to Marian from Howard Cox and a watercolour drawing by Marian of a holiday cabin at Mount Desert, Maine.

Twenty-one letters, 1940-1941, to John Cowper Powys from his sister Marian Powys, mostly containing family news, especially of Marian's son Peter Powys Grey, including his academic successes and Marian's disclosure to him of his father's identity. There are also references to Marian's application to become an American citizen, and part of one letter, dated 30 June 1940, contains a statement by Marian relating to her assumption of custody of Faith Powys and her children and of Isobel Powys Marks's children.

Twenty-two letters (one [?]incomplete), one postcard and one telegram, 1947, to John Cowper Powys from his sister Marian Powys, containing mostly personal and family news, including the death of Margaret, wife of John Cowper Powys.

Fourteen letters, undated, to John Cowper Powys from his sister Marian Powys, containing mainly personal news and news of family and friends, including references to Marian's son Peter Powys Grey and Marian's response to John Cowper Powys's novel Morwyn (published 1937).

Letters largely to and between various members of the Powys family, as follows: To Lucy Penny from her mother Mary Cowper Powys (5), 1911-1912, 1914; to Marian (May) Powys from her mother Mary Cowper Powys (1), [1914]; to Margaret Powys from her son Littleton Alfred Powys (1), 1926; to Gamel Woolsey from Mary (Molly) MacCarthy (1), undated, which refers to Gamel's then contentious work One Way of Love (1930) (with a note by Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir); to Gertrude Powys from [her brother Theodore Francis Powys], (3), 1941, 1946 and undated (typescript copies); to Gertrude Powys from her sister Lucy Penny (1 postcard), [1944]; to Marian Powys from 'E. R.' (1), 1947; to Peter Powys Grey from his mother Marian Powys (1), 1948; to Bernard O'Neill from Philippa (Katie) Powys (1), 1949 (photocopy); to Francis Llewellyn Powys from his cousin Littleton Alfred Powys (1 postcard), 1951; to Littleton [?Charles] Powys from an unnamed correspondent (the letter lacking a signature and appearing incomplete) (1), 1953; to George Frederick Sims from John Cowper Powys's nephew Francis Llewellyn Powys (1), 1958 (photocopy); to Alyse Gregory, widow of Llewelyn Powys, from Francis Llewellyn Powys (1), 1960; to Jill Olson from Katie Powys (1), 1961 (photocopy) (with note by Morine Krissdottir); to Lucy Penny from her sister Marian Powys (1), [1963]; to Lucy Penny from Powys biographer Marie Canavaggia (including a note to Phyllis Playter) (1), 1964; to Lucy Penny from her niece Isobel Powys Marks (1), 1966; to Lucy Penny from her niece Rose Dyer (1), 1969; to Lucy Penny from her nephew Gilfrid Powys (1), 1969; to Lucy Penny from her great-nephew Michael (2) and her great-niece Lucy (1), 1969; to Francis Llewellyn Powys from C. Benson Roberts (1), 1970; to John Cowper Powys's brother William Ernest (Willie) Powys from Agnes [ ? ] in Poland, enclosing a photograph [?from Adrian Upfield]) (1), 2002; together with undated letters to Alyse Gregory from Lucy Penny (1) and Ty (Barbara) Powys Grey (née Tyler), first wife of Peter Powys Grey (1), an undated letter to Bernard O'Neill from Lucy Penny (photocopy), and an undated postcard from Marian Powys to an unnamed recipient (on the dorse of which is a printed notice of an auction of some of Marian Powys's lacemaking stock upon her retirement). Included separately in an envelope are photographs of Marian Powys and Peter Powys Grey, [?1936], and an obituary of Gertrude Powys, [1952].

Twelve letters, three postcards and one illustrated Christmas card, 1928, 1945-1946, 1951, 1954-1955, 1957 and undated, to John Cowper Powys from John Redwood Anderson, several of the letters containing comments on drafts of John Cowper Powys's novel Homer and the Aether (1959). Two of the letters contain poetry lately written by Anderson, and three of the letters include notes to John Cowper Powys and to Phyllis Playter by Anderson's wife Gwyneth. Also included is an inscribed photograph of Anderson (f. 4), an inscribed printed copy of Anderson's To the Dyfrdwy, the River I Love (London, 1951) (ff. 6-13), and a typed copy of a poem by Anderson entitled To John Cowper Powys: A Reply in Gratitude (ff. 54-56).

Letters to John Cowper Powys arranged alphabetically, G-J. The correspondents are as follows: Alexander Greene, of Alexander Greene Books (1), 1928; Frances Wilkinson (née Gregg, wife of Louis Wilkinson) (1 telegram), [1919] (upper right-hand corner torn away); Ichiro Hara (13 + 2 undated Christmas cards, 2 postcards and 1 photograph), 1957-1962 (references to the publication in Japan of John Cowper Powys's philosophical treatise The Meaning of Culture (1929), together with Ichiro Hara's response to some of John Cowper Powys's works); Oliver Holt (1 letter), 1955 (references to the last illness of John Cowper Powys's brother Littleton Charles Powys); Kenneth Hopkins (3), 1956-1958 + printed article by Hopkins entitled Reflections on Satan Montgomery (1962); Reginald Hunter (1), 1931; Rolf Italiaander (1), 1958; Gwyn Jones (2), 1942; and Jonah Jones (1), 1959.

Seventy-one envelopes, 1945-1949, addressed to John Cowper Powys from the librarian Gilbert Turner, the contents of the envelopes having been removed. These items were purchased with the letters contained in NLW MSS 23500-23504C, 23505D and should be considered as part of that collection.

Letters, 1936-1963, to John Cowper Powys from various publishers and literary agents. The correspondents include Laurence Pollinger Ltd (22), 1936-1954, 1957, Simon and Schuster (11), 1937-1947, and Keidrych Rhys (1), 1944. Enclosures comprise typescript copies of letters to Laurence Pollinger Ltd from John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd and Jonathan Cape Ltd and a printed copy of Wales (March 1944).

Letters from John Cowper Powys to his brother Llewelyn Powys (1), 1929, his sister-in-law Alyse Gregory, widow of Llewelyn (1), 1954, and Sally Powys, wife of John Cowper Powys's nephew Francis Llewellyn Powys (1), 1955. The letter to Llewelyn Powys contains a detailed account of John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter's Hillsdale home known as Phudd Bottom, while the letter to Sally Powys refers to Francis Powys's recent stay in hospital and is illustrated with ink drawings by John Cowper Powys (f. 11-verso).

Four letters, 1929, [1932], from John Cowper Powys to Phyllis Playter's mother Minnie H. Playter, with one letter addressed to Minnie Playter and Phyllis Playter. The letters include references to the death of Toby [?a dog or cat], the acquisition of British rights to the publication of Powys's novel A Glastonbury Romance (1933), and mention of "my little Philosopy Book", possibly A Philosophy of Solitude, published in 1933. F. 2-verso is in Phyllis Playter's hand. The envelopes and all but one letter are annotated by Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir.

Photocopies (some text faint) of eighty letters, 1942-1943, from John Cowper Powys to the poet Huw Menai (Huw Owen Williams). The letters include references to health matters, to some of Powys's past works and works in progress, and to Huw Menai's (unpublished) autobiography. Many of the letters are illustrated with Powys's ink drawings, which include caricatures of himself and of Huw Menai. Enclosures comprise a diagram of a mechanical device entitled the 'Fuze 700' (f. 50), a photocopy of a printed excerpt from 'Month By Month, A Journal of Progressive & Revolutionary Ideas' (ff. 110-13), a photocopy of a letter to Powys from Margaret Casey, mother-in-law of Powys's niece Mary Casey (ff. 163-4), and photocopies of drawings of animals from a printed source (ff. 168-70).

Photocopy of one undated letter from John Cowper Powys to Harold A. Van Kirk.

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.

A single manuscript leaf from John Cowper Powys's novel A Glastonbury Romance (1932). The text includes a description of Tom Barton's room.

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).

Photocopies of typescript notes, with (photocopied) annotations, on the writers William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Lamb and Sir Walter Scott by John Cowper Powys. Originally foliated: 2-10, 2-11, 2-10, 2-11, 2-10, 2-10.