- ADD3/3
- Is-gyfres
- 1796-1947
Miscellaneous items of or relating to family members of Mary Cowper Powys, including photographs and estate papers.
Miscellaneous items of or relating to family members of Mary Cowper Powys, including photographs and estate papers.
Family correspondence and personal calling cards of members of Mary Cowper Powys's family.
Envelopes from Littleton Charles Powys
Envelopes addressed to John Cowper Powys from his brother Littleton Charles Powys, the contents of the envelopes having been removed. These items were purchased with the letters contained in NLW MSS 23680-89 and should be considered as part of that collection.
Powys, Littleton, 1874-1955
Letters from Littleton Charles Powys
Letters to John Cowper Powys from his brother, Littleton Charles Powys, mostly containing personal and family news; also envelopes addressed to John Cowper Powys from Littleton Charles Powys, the contents of the envelopes having been removed.
Powys, Littleton, 1874-1955
John Cowper Powys estate, literary executorship and copyright papers
Papers relating to the wills of John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter and to the literary executorship, copyright, translation rights and royalies, etc. of John Cowper Powys's estate concerning proposed publication and translation of, and performance rights, copyright and royalties relating to, the works of John Cowper Powys, with some of the papers relating also to the works of his brother Theodore Francis Powys and his sister Philippa (Katie) Powys. The literary executorship of both John Cowper Powys and Theodore Francis Powys was in the hands of Phyllis Player until she transferred it to John Cowper Powys's nephew, Theodore's son Francis Llewellyn Powys by deed of gift in 1972; Francis, in turn, transferred it by deed of gift to his son John Francis Cowper Powys in 1994.
Letters from Playter family members
Letters to Phyllis Playter from her parents, Franklin and Minnie H. Playter, and from Marion Bell (née Playter).
Letters to Playter family members
Letters from Phyllis Playter to her parents, Franklin and Minnie H. Playter.
Letters from Littleton Alfred Powys
Letters to John Cowper Powys from his son Littleton Alfred Powys and the latter's close friend Dinah White, containing mostly personal news, the final phase of the correspondence chronicling Littleton Alfred's declining health.
Letters to other Powys family members
Letters to John Cowper Powys's sister Lucy Penny and sister-in-law Alyse Gregory, widow of Llewelyn Powys, from various friends and acquaintances; and miscellaneous Powys family letters.
Letters from publishers and literary agents
Letters to John Cowper Powys from various publishers and literary agents, including Laurence Pollinger Ltd and Simon & Schuster.
Letters to Gertrude Powys (typescript copies)
Typescript copies of letters and cards, and one holograph letter, from John Cowper Powys to his sister Gertrude Powys. The letters contain mostly personal and family news. Typed notes have been added to the copied letters, presumably by the copier. Some of the letters are annotated by Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir, who has also written a brief overview of the collection (inserted in the folder).
Letters to other family members
Letters from John Cowper Powys to his brother Llewelyn Powys, his sister-in-law Alyse Gregory, Sally Powys, wife of John Cowper Powys's nephew Francis Llewellyn Powys, and Herbert Henry Marks, husband of John Cowper Powys's niece Isobel Powys Marks.
Letters to friends and acquaintances
Letters from John Cowper Powys to various friends and acquaintances, including Gamel Woolsey and George Sims, together with a number of envelopes addressed mainly to Gilbert Turner, with others to C. Benson Roberts and Susanne Lane, from John Cowper Powys, the contents of the envelopes having been removed.
Manuscript fragments and typescript drafts of published novels by John Cowper Powys, including a photocopy of the typescript of Powys's 1951 novel Porius, with a typescript introduction by Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir, and a typescript draft of the preface to Les Sables de la Mer, Marie Canavaggia's 1958 French translation of Weymouth Sands (1934).
Letters to Littleton Charles Powys (photocopies)
Photocopies of letters from John Cowper Powys to his brother Littleton Charles Powys. The original letters are in the Powys Collection in Dorset County Museum. The photocopies were made by Jeffrey Kwintner of the Village Press.
Letters to friends and acquaintances
Letters from Phyllis Playter to various friends and acquaintances, including a substantial amount addressed to the writer Gamel Woolsey.
Letters to John Cowper Powys from Phyllis Playter's father Franklin Playter.
Letters from Edgar Lee Masters
Carbon copies of typed letters to John Cowper Powys from the poet Edgar Lee Masters.
Letters to John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter from Marie Canavaggia, French translator of the works of John Cowper Powys.
Envelopes addressed to John Cowper Powys and others from Gilbert Turner and others
Envelopes addressed to John Cowper Powys from the librarian Gilbert Turner and others, 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.