- AE1/4/3
- Ffeil
- 1956-1965
Twenty-two letters, 1956-1965, to Phyllis Playter from Eric Harvey of Macdonald & Co. Ltd, publishers, London. Along with personal news, the letters mainly discuss the publication of John Cowper Powys's works, including the libel case involving Powys's novel Weymouth Sands (1934) and its subsequent reprinting, by Macdonald, in 1963. There are references also to the death of John Cowper Powys in June 1963, the death of Powys's nephew, Charles Powys, in Kenya in 1964, and to Phyllis Playter's proposed voyage to South America early in 1964. Enclosed with one letter, dated 21 September 1963, are letters to Phyllis Playter from Harvey's children, Richard and Juliet.