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A copy of a typescript account of the love affair between John Cowper Powys and Frances Wilkinson (née Gregg), incorporating extracts from their correspondence, [c. 1912], as well as from the letters of Louis Wilkinson, Ezra Pound and others. The work was compiled with a view to publication by Oliver Marlow Wilkinson, son of Frances and Louis Wilkinson.

Papers, 1962-[c. 1986], of Frederick Davies, relating to John Cowper Powys, including letters to Davies from Phyllis Playter, Alyse Gregory, Lucy Amelia Penny, Marie Canavaggia and others, 1962-1986; letters to Powys on his ninetieth birthday, 1962; and an unpublished account of the love affair between Powys and Frances Gregg, [c. 1986].

Letters and cards to Frederick Davies, mainly from members of the Powys family, including forty-seven letters and seventeen cards, 1962-1986, from John Cowper Powys's sister, Lucy Amelia Penny (ff. 3-82) and sixteen letters, 1963-1967, from Alyse Gregory, widow of Llewelyn Powys (ff. 87-110), together with five letters and three cards, 1964-1967, mostly in French, from Marie Canavaggia, translator of John Cowper Powys's works (ff. 111-125).

Fourteen letters and four cards, 1962, to John Cowper Powys from well-wishers on his ninetieth birthday (on 8 October 1962) (ff. 1-32), together with a letter of condolence following his death in 1963 to Phyllis Playter from Kewal Motwani, Jabalpur (f. 33).

Two hundred and eighty-eight letters, 1962-1978, from Phyllis Player to Frederick Davies, giving an account of John Cowper Powys shortly before his death in Blaenau Ffestiniog in June 1963 and discussing the posthumous growth of interest in his writings, particularly among members of Cambridge University. Some of the letters have been published in Frederick Davies, 'Recollections of John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter', The Powys Review, 19 (1986), 58-66, and 20 (1987), 47-57. Also included are a few letters from Phyllis Playter to Frederick Davies's mother.