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John Cowper Powys Manuscripts and Papers Simon & Schuster, inc.
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Letters from publishers and literary agents

Letters, 1934-1935, to John Cowper Powys from various publishers and literary agents. Many of the letters relate to the libel action brought against Powys for his novel A Glastonbury Romance (1932). Among the correspondents are Simon and Schuster (18) W. W. Norton (3), Laurence Pollinger (22) and John Lane (2).

Letters from publishers and literary agents

Letters, 1936-1963, to John Cowper Powys from various publishers and literary agents. The correspondents include Laurence Pollinger Ltd (22), 1936-1954, 1957, Simon and Schuster (11), 1937-1947, and Keidrych Rhys (1), 1944. Enclosures comprise typescript copies of letters to Laurence Pollinger Ltd from John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd and Jonathan Cape Ltd and a printed copy of Wales (March 1944).

Letters from publishers and literary agents

Letters and telegrams, 1899-1932, to John Cowper Powys from various publishers and literary agents. Among the correspondents are Arnold Shaw (8), 1918-1925, Lee Keedick (5), 1927-1931, Will Durant (2) 1928 (with his reader’s report to Simon and Schuster on Powys’s novel Wolf Solent), Simon and Schuster (9), 1928-1931 (with royalty statements), Marianne Moore (1), 1928, and Victor Gollancz (1), 1932 (with comments on Powys’s novel A Glastonbury Romance). The file also includes one letter, 1930, from Powys to Lee Keedick.