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A copy of John Ceiriog Hughes, Caneuon Ceiriog ([Newtown], 1925), a selection of Ceiriog’s poems presented to John Cowper Powys on his birthday, 8 October 1954, by Redwood and Gwyneth [Anderson], including a letter from Phyllis Playter, 1966, to Evan Roberts, giving the book to him. There is also a copy of Llewelyn Powys, The cradle of God (London, 1949), presented by John Cowper Powys to his 'friend of many years' Evan Roberts, in 1949.

Thirty-three letters and a card, 1958-1961, from John Cowper Powys to Susanne Lane, together with one letter, 1959, to her husband, Cyril J. Lane.

Two letters, 1946-1947, to Gwyn Jones, the first from Dorothea Braby, London, 6 December 1946 (ff. 28-29), and the second from John Cowper Powys, Corwen, 11 November 1947 (ff. 30-32), both of which concern Gwyn and Thomas Jones's new translation of the Mabinogion, published as The Golden Cockerel Mabinogion ([London]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1947).
Braby discusses her illustration for the title page of The Golden Cockerel Mabinogion and includes a written description of its layout (f. 29) (see Professor Gwyn Jones, 'The Golden Cockerel Mabinogion, 1944-1948', Trans. Cymm. (1989), 181-209 (pp. 197-206) for further details and for extracts of related letters from Braby). Powys congratulates Jones on the translation, requests a cheap edition and gives his thoughts on translations in general.

An autograph letter, 9 October 1947, from J[ohn] C[owper] Powys, Corwen, to an admirer George X. Basarab, Madera, Pennsylvania, thanking him for sending birthday greetings.
The letter is illustrated with a self-portrait sketch, showing Powys reading Basarab's letter.

Typescript transcripts by Frederick H. Davies of the diaries of John Cowper Powys, 1930-1932, 1934. For the original diaries, see NLW MSS 22206-8, 22210. See also The Diary of John Cowper Powys 1930, ed. by Frederick Davies (London, 1987). [Papers relating to John Cowper Powys in NLW MSS 23193-23197].

'The Welsh Budget', [1909], a holograph poem by John Cowper Powys concerning David Lloyd George's 'People's Budget' of 1909; it is apparently unpublished.
Also included is a cutting from the Radio Times, 18-24 June 1966, listing a radio programme on that Budget, transmitted 21 June.