Envelopes addressed to Gilbert Turner and others
Envelopes addressed to the librarian Gilbert Turner, C. Benson Roberts and Susanne Lane from John Cowper Powys, the contents of the envelopes having been removed. These items were purchased with the letters contained in NLW MSS 23493-23498E, 23499D and should be considered as part of that collection.
Envelopes addressed to Gilbert Turner from Phyllis Playter and others
One hundred and thirty-four envelopes, 1952-1957, 1959-1976 and indiscernible/missing postmarks, addressed to Gilbert Turner from Phyllis Playter, together with two envelopes, 1947, 1949, from [Alyse Gregory], one, 1948, from [Lucy Penny], and two, 1966, from an unidentified correspondent, all addressed to Gilbert Turner, the contents of all the envelopes having been removed. These items were purchased with the letters contained in NLW MSS 23493-23498E, 23499D and should be considered as part of that collection.
Envelopes addressed to John Cowper Powys from Gilbert Turner
One hundred and three envelopes, 1956-1962 and indiscernible/missing postmarks, 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.
Envelopes addressed to John Cowper Powys from Gilbert Turner
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.
Envelopes addressed to John Cowper Powys from Gilbert Turner
Ninety-two envelopes, 1950-1954, 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.
Envelopes addressed to Phyllis Playter from various correspondents
Envelopes addressed to Phyllis Playter from Alyse Gregory (53, 1952-195[?3], 1956-1958, 1960-1967) (ff. 1-53), Gilbert Turner (42, 1954-1955, 1957-1958, 1960, 1963, 1969, 1976) (ff. 54-95), Littleton Charles Powys (17, 1948-1953) (ff. 96-112), [Francis Llewellyn Powys] (12, 1958-1959, 1963-1964, 1974, 1976 and indiscernible/missing postmarks) (ff. 113-122), Gerald Brenan (11, 1968) (ff. 123-133), Gamel Woolsey (1, indiscernible postmark, envelope torn in half) (f. 134), Luis José Bonito Ribeiro (1, [?1976]) (f. 135), Philippa (Katie) Powys (1, [1961]) (f. 136) and John C. Playter (1,1976) (f. 137). The contents of all the envelopes have been removed.
John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter letters to Gilbert Turner
Some four hundred and fifty letters, 1942-1962, from John Cowper Powys to Gilbert Turner, mainly containing personal news and comments on the progress of his literary work, particularly the composition and revision of his novel Porius (1951), with occasional references to acquaintances such as the novelists Elena Puw Morgan, James Hanley and Henry Miller, and the poet Huw Owen Williams ('Huw Menai'); together with some two hundred letters, ?1943-1979, to Gilbert Turner from Phyllis Playter, who writes initially as Powys's amanuensis during his periods of ill health and continues the correspondence with Turner after Powys's death in 1963.
Thirteen letters and two postcards, 1962, 1965-1966, 1968-1970, 1978 and undiscernible postmark date, to Phyllis Playter from Gilbert Turner. The letters contain mainly personal and social news.