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The file comprises letters relating to the management and development of the Robert Owen Memorial Museum, Newtown. There is also a small group of related printed items and press cuttings.

The file comprises printed and manuscript items concerning the Robert Owen Memorial Museum, Newtown. Many of the papers relate to the meetings and proceedings of the Museum's Council of Management, and there are several published items about Robert Owen and his legacy.

Eleven notebooks, [1970s-1980s], containing material mostly relating to the proposed publication of John Cowper Powys's letters and diaries. Nine of the notebooks are in Francis Llewellyn Powys's hand, one (ff. 1-12) bearing the title 'My Dearest Sea-Eagle. Selected Letters from J.C.P. to His sister Katie. NOTES', the rest containing draft letters relating to proposed publication (many addressed to representatives of Laurence Pollinger Ltd, literary agents, London), a draft of The Quiet Man of Dorset (ff. 258-260) (Francis's portrait of his father Theodore Francis Powys) and a draft of an unnamed work by Francis Llewellyn Powys (ff. 260 verso-290, about half of which is inverted text), and rough arithmetical calculations (presumably related to publishing costs). Many of the notebooks contain rough sketches and drawings, mainly depicting female figures, and some leaves bear evidence of watercolour paint mixing. A photographic negative depicting a crowd of people at the seaside which was originally loose inside one of the notebooks is now inserted at f. 156. Two of the eleven notebooks, containing indexes to the proposed publications, are possibly in the hand of Sally Powys, wife of Francis Llewellyn Powys.

Three letters, [1935], 1938, from Phyllis Playter to John Cowper Powys's brother, Llewelyn (Lulu) Powys, which include Phyllis Playter's response to Llewelyn's work Damnable Opinions (1935). In 1938 Phyllis Playter is writing to Switzerland, where Llewelyn had removed for the sake of his health. Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir has added brief notes on ff. 1, 3.

Fifty letters, 1937-1961, from John Cowper Powys (ff. 6-49, 51-60 verso), one letter, 1959, from his companion, Phyllis Playter (f. 50), and six letters and two postcards, 1937-1939 (ff. 62-72), together with an inscribed photograph, 1937 (f. 61), from Llewelyn Powys, to Margaret Moon (afterwards Margaret Newton). Many of the letters contain reminiscences of Montacute, Somerset, childhood home of the Powys brothers, and birthplace of Margaret Moon. Two of the letters from John Cowper Powys (ff. 30-32 verso) are in the hand of Phyllis Playter, writing as his amanuensis. Also included are three letters, 1990, from Margaret Newton to Paul Roberts, editor of the Powys Society Newsletter (ff. 1-5).
The letters contain references to Thomas Hardy (ff. 13 verso, 40 recto-verso, 48), Theodore Dreiser (f. 44), W. B. Yeats (f. 29 verso) and Theodore Francis Powys (ff. 38 verso, 39 verso).

A presentation copy of The Letters of Elizabeth Myers, ed. by Littleton C. Powys (London, 1951), inscribed by Powys, 8 November 1951, to Mrs [Dorothy May] Meech, his typist on this and other books, together with three letters, 1951-1955, from Powys to Mrs Meech (ff. 2-4), the first of which accompanied the book. Also included is a presentation copy of Littleton C. Powys, The Powys Family (Yeovil, 1952), inscribed by the author, October 1952, to the antiquarian Joseph Fowler, together with a letter, 26 October 1952, from Powys to Fowler (f. 1).
The letters have been placed in an archival envelope.

Thirty-five letters and postcards, 1953-1955, to Dinah White from Littleton Charles Powys, brother of John Cowper Powys, mainly concerning Father Littleton Alfred Powys. Also included are a printed copy of Littleton Alfred's poem 'Ode to the West Wind' (1954) (ff. 12-13), an additional stanza of the 'Ode' transcribed by Dinah White but not included in the final version (f. 14), a set of typescript notes and comments on the 'Ode' (ff. 27-32), and a typescript copy of a poem by Pauline Clifft entitled 'Meeting' addressed to Littleton Charles's wife Elizabeth Myers (f. 4).

Ninety-two letters and cards, 1938-1960, from John Cowper Powys to C. Benson Roberts and his wife Jane, most of which have been published as Letters from John Cowper Powys to C. Benson Roberts, edited by the recipient (London, 1975); together with a letter and card, 1940, from Phyllis Playter, John Cowper Powys's companion, and two letters, 1954, from Littleton C. Powys.

Papers, 1923, mostly relating to the will and estate of the Rev. Charles Francis Powys. They comprise a letter, with copy, addressed to Messrs Newman, Paynter & Co., solicitors, Yeovil, from Clavell Hore & Son, brokers, relating to the valuation of the Rev. Powys's estate; contract notes compiled by Clavell Hore & Son; a schedule of securities relating to the Rev. Powys's estate; letters addressed to Littleton Charles Powys, co-executor, from Newman, Paynter & Co.; death certificate of Charles Ernest Moilliet, co-executor; and cheque books registered with Lloyds Bank Ltd, with stubs attached and cheques made out to beneficiaries, etc., of the Rev. Powys's will.

Papers, 1923, mostly relating to the will and estate of the Rev. Charles Francis Powys, comprising his death certificate and an obituary; a list detailing the valuation of his securities compiled by Clavell Hore & Son, brokers; correspondence addressed to Littleton Charles Powys, son and co-executor of the Rev. Powys, from Charles Ernest Moilliet, co-executor, relating to the will; a probate of the will, with codicil, dated 5 September 1923; inland revenue papers containing accounts, valuations, etc., of the Rev. Powys's personal estate and naming Charles Ernest Moilliet and Littleton Charles Powys as co-executors; inventories of furniture, china and other effects contained at 3 Greenhill Terrace, Weymouth, Dorset, home of Littleton Charles Powys and the last residency of the Rev. Powys.

Manuscript, dated 3 July 1955, in the hand of Littleton C. Powys, containing reminiscences of his time as a tutor at Llandovery College, Carmarthenshire, 1901-1905.
The reminiscences were published in Llandovery School Journal, 24.4 (November 1955), 45-50, and reprinted (without the opening paragraph) in Floreat Landubriense..., compiled by R. Brinley Jones ([Llandovery], 1998), pp. 121-125. A covering letter by the donor, 28 January 1956, is also included (f. i).

Thirty letters, 1878-1889 and undated, to the Rev. Charles Francis Powys from his mother Amelia Powys. The letters contain mostly family news, including the birth of Charles and Mary Powys's second daughter Eleanor, who died in 1893 aged 13, and reflections on Charles's brother Major Littleton Albert Powys, following his death in August 1879. There are notes by [Amelia Powys's granddaughter Marian Powys] on ff. 38 verso, 44 verso and 49, and by Charles Francis Powys on ff. 33, 53 verso and 55. Enclosures comprise proposed memorial inscriptions for Amelia Powys and her husband the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys (ff. 52-54) and a card bearing Biblical verses (f. 73).

Tystysgrif ar gyfer derbyn Emyr Humphreys yn Gymrawd Cymdeithas Ddysgedig Cymru (2013), ynghyd â llythyr cadarnhad. / A certificate for admission of Emyr Humphreys as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (2013), together with a letter of confirmation.

Gohebiaeth (1932-1966), yn cynnwys llythyrau oddi wrth W. T. Gruffydd (2); D. Morgan Davies (1); W. T. Morris (1); Ellis Evans (1); E. J. Owen (1); R. Richards (1); S. Francis Roberts (1); D. Morlais Jones (1); Undeb Yr Annibynwyr Cymraeg Caernarvon (1); J. Humphrey Jones (1); D. Ellis Jones (2); and J. Hughes Morris (1). / Correspondence (1932-1966), consisting of letters to Griffith Jones from W. T. Gruffydd (2); D. Morgan Davies (1); W. T. Morris (1); Ellis Evans (1); E. J. Owen (1); R. Richards (1); S. Francis Roberts (1); D. Morlais Jones (1); North Caernarvonshire Union of Welsh Independents (1); J. Humphrey Jones (1); D. Ellis Jones (2); and J. Hughes Morris (1).

Toriadau o Y Faner (1947) a The New English Review [?1947]); ynghyd â rhai nodiadau llawysgrif yn llaw Emyr Humphreys (heb eu dyddio), copi o lythyr at Graham Greene oddi wrth Pamela Hansford-Johnson (1946), a rhaglen ar gyfer y ffilm ‘The Iron Horse’ ([?1924]). / Press cuttings from Y Faner (1947) and The New English Review [?1947]); together with some manuscript notes in the hand of Emyr Humphreys (undated), a copy of a letter to Graham Greene from Pamela Hansford-Johnson (1946), and a programme for the film ‘The Iron Horse’ ([?1924]).

Toriadau o'r wasg yn ymwneud â gweithiau Emyr Humphreys 'The Little Kingdom' (Llundain: Eyre & Spottiwoode, 1946) a 'The Voice of a Stranger' (Llundain: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1949), gan gynnwys toriadau o The Times Literary Supplement, Daily Post , The Star , The Sunday Times , a John O'London's Weekly ; ynghyd â siaced lwch wreiddiol ar gyfer ‘The Voice of a Stranger’ (1949) a llythyr oddi wrth Henry Reed (1949). / Press cuttings relating to Emyr Humphreys’ works ‘The Little Kingdom’ (London: Eyre & Spottiwoode, 1946) and ‘The Voice of a Stranger’ (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1949), including cuttings from The Times Literary Supplement, Daily Post, The Star, The Sunday Times, and John O’London’s Weekly; together with an original dust jacket for ‘The Voice of a Stranger’ (1949) and a letter from Henry Reed (1949).

Teipysgrifau o erthyglau gan Emyr Humphreys, gan gynnwys 'Darllen' (heb ddyddiad), a 'Nodiadau ar y Nofel' (cyhoeddwyd yn New Welsh Review 35, 1996/97, tt. 9-10), ynghyd â theipysgrif o ddarlith, 'The Crucible of Myth' (a gyflwynwyd yng Ngholeg Prifysgol Abertawe, Mai 1990), crynodeb teipysgrif gyda’r teitl 'The House that Tom Built' (2001), a chopïau o farddoniaeth (heb eu dyddio). / Typescripts of articles by Emyr Humphreys, including ‘Darllen’ (undated), and ‘Notes on the Novel’ (published in New Welsh Review 35, 1996/97, pp. 9-10), together with a typescript of a lecture, ‘The Crucible of Myth’ (delivered at University College Swansea, May 1990), a typescript summary titled ‘The House that Tom Built’ (2001), and copies of poetry (undated).

Teipysgrifau, gyda chywiriadau yn llaw Emyr Humphreys, o sgript ar gyfer pennod pedwar o ddrama deledu wedi’i theitlo ‘Private Battles’; ynghyd â phapurau eraill yn cynnwys teipysgrif o draethawd gyda’r teitl ‘Cefn Gwlad’, a llythyr at Emyr Humphreys oddi wrth Richard Houdmont (2001). / Typescripts, with corrections in the hand of Emyr Humphreys, of a script for episode four of a drama for television titled ‘Private Battles’; together with other papers including a typescript of an essay titled ‘Cefn Gwlad’, and a letter to Emyr Humphreys from Richard Houdmont (2001).

Drafft mewn llawysgrif a theipysgrif, gyda nodiadau yn llaw Emyr Humphreys, ar gyfer drama gyda’r teitl ‘Soar: Ffoaduriaid ac ant hyd at Soar’. / A draft in both manuscript and typescript, with notes in the hand of Emyr Humphreys, for a drama titled ‘Soar: Ffoaduriaid a ant hyd at Soar’.

Nodiadau a theipysgrifau (1990; 1997; 1999) yn ymwneud â chwmni Ffilmiau Bryngwyn, yn cynnwys yn bennaf gynigion a syniadau ar gyfer cyfresi teledu, gan gynnwys nodiadau llawysgrif a theipysgrif a drafftiau yn ymwneud â syniadau ar gyfer cyfresi teledu; cynigion teipysgrif gan Ffilmiau Bryngwyn ar gyfer cyfresi teledu amrywiol, gyda'r teitlau gweithredol ‘Visitors’, ‘Ar y Clwt’, a ffilm, ‘Ar Lan Y Mor’; amlinelliadau pellach o syniadau ar gyfer cyfresi teledu eraill, rhaglenni dogfen, a ffilmiau gyda'r teitlau gweithredol ‘Llythyrau o’r Ffrynt’, ‘Bebb’, ‘Ysbytai’, ‘Cymru yn y Canol’, ‘Athrylith y Lle’, ‘Dirgelion Oes y Cerrig’, ‘Y Seintiau Celtaidd Crwydrol a’r Seintiau Cymraeg’, ‘Byd Ambrose Bebb’, ‘Yr Ysgol Sul’, ‘Pab Cymraeg?’, ‘Beth Digwyddodd i Lladin?’, ‘Orielau Mawr Ewrop’, ‘Cystrawen Ffilm’, ‘Yr Hen Ogledd’, and ‘Yr Etrwsciaid’, ‘Draw Dros y Don’, ‘Yma Gorwedd’, ‘Llaw yn y Tân’, ‘Mudandod’, ‘Etruscan Places’, ‘Hualau’, ‘Outside Time’, ‘Fishing for the Truth’, ‘Takeaway’, ‘The European Eye’, ‘Shakespeare in Europe’, ‘A Girl in a Garden’, a ‘Shoulder on the Stone’, ymysg eraill. Mae’r ffeil hefyd yn cynnwys nodiadau llawysgrif pellach o’r enw ‘Llais Llyfrau’; copi teipysgrif o gyfweliad ag Emyr Humphreys yn trafod ei weithiau llenyddol; a phroflenni ar gyfer tudalennau teitl a phenodau o gyfres ‘The Land of Living’. / Notes and typescripts (1990; 1997; 1999) relating to the Ffilmiau Bryngwyn company, consisting mainly of proposals and ideas for TV series, including manuscript and typescript notes and drafts relating ideas for TV series; typescript proposals by Ffilmiau Bryngwyn for various TV series, with the working titles ‘Visitors’, ‘Ar y Clwt’, and a film, ‘Ar Lan Y Mor’; further outlines of ideas for other TV series, documentaries, and films with the working titles ‘Llythyrau o’r Ffrynt’, ‘Bebb’, ‘Ysbytai’, ‘Cymru yn y Canol’, ‘Athrylith y Lle’, ‘Dirgelion Oes y Cerrig’, ‘Y Seintiau Celtaidd Crwydrol a’r Seintiau Cymraeg’, ‘Byd Ambrose Bebb’, ‘Yr Ysgol Sul’, ‘Pab Cymraeg?’, ‘Beth Digwyddodd i Lladin?’, ‘Orielau Mawr Ewrop’, ‘Cystrawen Ffilm’, ‘Yr Hen Ogledd’, and ‘Yr Etrwsciaid’, ‘Draw Dros y Don’, ‘Yma Gorwedd’, ‘Llaw yn y Tân’, ‘Mudandod’, ‘Etruscan Places’, ‘Hualau’, ‘Outside Time’, ‘Fishing for the Truth’, ‘Takeaway’, ‘The European Eye’, ‘Shakespeare in Europe’, ‘A Girl in a Garden’, and ‘Shoulder on the Stone’, among others. The file also includes further manuscript notes titled ‘Llais Llyfrau’; a typescript copy of an interview with Emyr Humphreys discussing his literary works; and proofs for title pages and chapters from ‘The Land of Living’ series.