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Letters and telegrams to Phyllis Playter from her partner, John Cowper Powys.

Letters to Phyllis Playter from various members of the Powys family, including John Cowper Powys's sisters, Lucy, Gertrude and Marian, his nephew, Francis Llewellyn Powys, and his sister-in-law, Alyse Gregory, wife of Llewelyn Powys, together with correspondence to Phyllis Playter regarding Alyse Gregory's will and estate.

Letters from Phyllis Playter to various friends and acquaintances, including a substantial amount addressed to the writer Gamel Woolsey.

Letters from Phyllis Playter to her parents, Franklin and Minnie H. Playter.

Letters to Mary Cowper Powys from members of her family, including her parents, children and grandchildren.

Family correspondence and personal calling cards of members of Mary Cowper Powys's family.

Notebooks of Francis Llewellyn Powys containing material mostly relating to the proposed publication of John Cowper Powys's letters and diaries.

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.

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.

Contracts concerning publication and translation rights relating to the works of John Cowper Powys, and, in some instances, to those of John Cowper Powys's brother Theodore Francis Powys.

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.

Miscellaneous items of or relating to family members of Mary Cowper Powys, including photographs and estate papers.

Letters to John Cowper Powys from Eric Harvey of Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, London, containing both professional correspondence and personal news.

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.

Letters to John Cowper Powys from various friends and acquaintances, including Ichiro Hara, Huw Menai Williams, Angus Wilson and Gamel Woolsey.

Letters to John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter from Marie Canavaggia, French translator of the works of John Cowper Powys.

Carbon copies of typed letters to John Cowper Powys from the poet Edgar Lee Masters.

Letters to John Cowper Powys from the Milton scholar and fantasy writer E. H. Visiak (Edward Harold Physick).

Letters to John Cowper Powys from the poet John Redwood Anderson. Many of the letters contain Anderson's comments on drafts of John Cowper Powys's novel Homer and the Aether (1959).

Letters to John Cowper Powys from Phyllis Playter's father Franklin Playter.