- AAA1/4
- Is-gyfres
- 1922-1952
Letters to John Cowper Powys from his sister Gertrude Powys.
Powys, Gertrude M. (Gertrude Mary)
Letters to John Cowper Powys from his sister Gertrude Powys.
Powys, Gertrude M. (Gertrude Mary)
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 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
Letters to Theodore Francis Powys (photocopies)
Photocopies of letters from John Cowper Powys to his brother Theodore Francis Powys.
Powys, Theodore Francis, 1875-1953
Letters to Huw Menai (photocopies)
Photocopies and transcripts of letters from John Cowper Powys to the poet Huw Menai (Huw Owen Williams), together with four manuscript poems by Huw Menai (kept in envelope with 1948-1954 letters).
Menai, Huw, 1886-1961
Diaries of Phyllis Playter containing memoranda and various inserts, including press cuttings, address labels, photographs and preserved dried plants.
Letters to Powys family members
Letters from Phyllis Playter to various members of John Cowper Powys's family.
Letters from friends and acquaintances
Letters to Phyllis Playter from friends and acquaintances, including Gamel Woolsey, Marie Canavaggia, Michel Gresset and Gilbert Turner.
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 Francis Llewellyn Powys and others from Laurence Pollinger Ltd
Letters to Francis Llewellyn Powys from Laurence Pollinger and Gerald Pollinger of Laurence Pollinger Ltd, literary agents, London, together with a number of letters addressed to Francis's wife Sally Powys and to Phyllis Playter. The letters mostly relate to the publication of, and copyright, royalties, performance rights, etc. relating to, the published works and other papers (eg letters and diaries) of John Cowper Powys.
Letters to Playter family members
Letters from John Cowper Powys to Minnie H. Playter, mother of Phyllis Playter, whom Powys addresses as 'Mistress Mary'.
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 Marian Powys and Peter Powys Grey
Letters from John Cowper Powys to his sister Marian Powys and to his nephew, Peter Powys Grey, Marian's son.
Letters to Littleton Alfred Powys
Letters from John Cowper Powys to his son Littleton Alfred Powys.
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).
Manuscripts, typescripts and photocopied typescripts of non-fiction prose works, mainly lectures, essays and speeches, by John Cowper Powys.
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).
A series of notebooks and loose leaves containing parts of a projected (unpublished) first novel by John Cowper Powys, most of which involve a character called Glendower. These narratives are closely related to those contained in NLW MSS 23672-6E.
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 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.