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Two poems written in Amelia Powys's hand, with a note on f. 4 by her husband, the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys; a printed memorial hymn for the Rev. John Keble (1792-1866), with the intials 'E[mily] (i.e. Amelia) P.' at top left-hand corner; a book of devotional passages inscribed to Amelia Powys from her sister, Susanna Smith, and dated 1834, with a later inscription, dated June 1928, to 'L. A. Powys' (presumably Father Littleton Alfred Powys, son of John Cowper Powys) from his aunt, Gertrude Powys, with devotional passages written out at the back of the volume by [Littleton Alfed Powys] and on the back cover by [Susanna Smith]; drawings and paintings by Amelia Powys (one inscribed 'Dearest Littleton Albert's ship' [in Amelia Powys's hand], one possibly depicting her grandson, John Cowper Powys, as an infant) and by her son, Charles Francis Powys, with notes by her granddaughter, Marian Powys; a dried pansy flower, with the inscription 'Charley' (i.e. Charles Francis Powys) [in Amelia Powys's hand]; and two letters from Amelia Powys to her mother, Amelia Moilliet, with a note dated May 1935 [by Amelia Powys's grandson, Littleton Charles Powys].

Twenty-eight letters, 1879 and undated, to Amelia Powys from her son, Major Littleton Albert Powys, the majority written whilst on military service in India and Afghanistan. The year in which they were written is omitted from all but one of the letters. Ff. 1-6 are accompanied by a note on their contents by [?Marian Powys, niece of Littleton Albert Powys], and there are also occasional notes in the hand of Amelia Powys.

Thirty letters, 1878-1889 and undated, to the Rev. Charles Francis Powys from his mother Amelia Powys. The letters contain mostly family news, including the birth of Charles and Mary Powys's second daughter Eleanor, who died in 1893 aged 13, and reflections on Charles's brother Major Littleton Albert Powys, following his death in August 1879. There are notes by [Amelia Powys's granddaughter Marian Powys] on ff. 38 verso, 44 verso and 49, and by Charles Francis Powys on ff. 33, 53 verso and 55. Enclosures comprise proposed memorial inscriptions for Amelia Powys and her husband the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys (ff. 52-54) and a card bearing Biblical verses (f. 73).

A letter, 1949, from Theodore Francis Powys to his brother, John Cowper Powys; together with twenty-eight letters and cards, 1946-1979, to Gilbert Turner, mostly from members of the Powys family or from friends of John Cowper Powys, including John Cowper Powys's sister, Gertrude Powys (2), 1946-1948, his sister-in-law, Alyse Gregory (2), 1947-1949, his sister, Lucy Amelia Penny (13), 1952-1973, his niece, Isobel Powys Marks (1), 1973, Lucy's daughter, Mary Casey (1), 1952, Mary's husband, Gerard Casey (2), 1976-1979, and John Redwood Anderson (1), 1947.

Photocopies of letters from John Cowper Powys to his brother Theodore Francis Powys.

Photocopies of one hundred and five letters, [1883, 1902, 1906-1907, 1909, 1912, 1914-1919, 1921-1933], 1935-1936, 1938, 1941-1949, 1951, from John Cowper Powys to his brother Theodore Francis Powys, the earliest of which was written by John Cowper Powys from Sherborne School, together with a typescript copy of one letter, 1947, possibly made by Phyllis Playter (f. 317), and one letter, 1956, from John Cowper Powys to Violet Powys, widow of Theodore (ff. 340-342). A substantial portion of the letters are undated, with likely dates (and other notes) added in pencil by Morine Krissdottir. The letters contain mostly personal, professional and family news and some are illustrated with John Cowper Powys's drawings. Enclosures comprise a photocopy of a printed article containing a review of Theodore Powys's The House with the Echo (1928) and photocopies of letters to John Cowper Powys from Barnet B. Ruder and Reginald Moore. The originals of these letters are housed in Texas. The photocopies were made by Jeffrey Kwintner and given to Morine Krissdottir.

Photocopies of one hundred and four letters, dated [c. 1905]-1956, from John Cowper Powys to his brother Theodore Francis Powys. These copies duplicate ninety-five of the letters in AAB1/1/1 and six in AAB1/1/2 but are often of somewhat better quality or more legible. There are also copies of three additional letters, dated [early 1909], 4 September [1922] and 17 January [1925], not found in AAB1/1/1-2.

Photocopies of forty-one letters (one of which is partial), 1944, from John Cowper Powys to his brother Littleton Charles Powys, containing mostly personal news and reflections. Some of the letters are illustrated with John Cowper Powys's ink drawings, which include self-caricatures. One letter is addressed to Littleton's wife Elizabeth (née Myers).

Photocopies of one hundred and thirteen letters and three postcards, 1945-1949, from John Cowper Powys to his brother Littleton Charles Powys, containing mostly personal news and reflections, together with photocopies of partial/incomplete undated letters from John Cowper Powys to Littleton, which are kept in a separate folder within the box. Some of the letters are illustrated with John Cowper Powys's ink drawings, which include self-caricatures. There are references to "the 499 AD novel" (which would become Porius (1951)) and to the deaths of John Cowper Powys's wife Margaret and Littleton's second wife Elizabeth Myers, both in 1947.

Photocopies of partial and undated letters, some with very faint text, from John Cowper Powys to his brother Littleton Charles Powys, containing mostly personal news and reflections. There are references to some of John Cowper Powys's works eg Wolf Solent (1929), Rabelais (1948) and Porius (1951), to Dinah White's role as amenuensis for John Cowper Powys's son Littleton Alfred at the end of the latter's life, and to the deaths of the writer Virginia Woolf in 1941 and of the American poet Edgar Lee Masters in 1950. Some of the letters are illustrated with John Cowper Powys's ink drawings, which include self-caricatures and representations of plants.

Some forty-three letters and cards, 1942, from Littleton Charles Powys to John Cowper Powys.

Some sixty-two letters and cards, 1955, from Littleton Charles Powys to John Cowper Powys. Also included is a letter, 1 May [1955], to John Cowper Powys from his sister Lucy [Penny] (f. 38).

Papers, [c. 1893]-1988, of John Cowper Powys, some published posthumously, which include letters, both to John Cowper Powys and to his companion, Phyllis Playter, as well as drafts of works, both published and unpublished, diaries, lectures and essays. The correspondence includes over eight hundred love letters, 1921-1932, from John Cowper Powys to Phyllis Player; some six hundred and forty letters and cards, 1925 and 1935-1955, from Littleton Charles Powys to his brother, John Cowper Powys; some four hundred and fifty letters, 1942-1962, from John Cowper Powys and other members of his family to Gilbert Turner, and some three hundred and fifty letters, 1945-1969, from Turner to John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Player; and over two hundred letters, 1924-1967, from Alyse Gregory, widow of Llewelyn Powys, to Phyllis Playter.

Revised autograph draft, [c. 1960], of John Cowper Powys's fantastic story 'Topsy-Turvy', begun towards the end of 1959 and published in Three Fantasies (1985).

Thirty-two letters and ten postcards, 1950-1963, from the American novelist Henry Miller to John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter, mainly in praise of John Cowper Powys and his work, with references also to Miller's own writing and to his family and friends. Also included are corrected typescript extracts from Miller's Plexus (1949) and The Books in My Life (1952) (ff. 76-156), a short typescript account by John Cowper Powys of Henry Miller and his work, [c. 1952]-[c. 1953] (ff. 158-159), and related papers.
The letters were first published, in translation, in Henry Miller & John Cowper Powys, Correspondance privée, ed. and trans. by Norine Haddad (Paris: Criterion, 1994); they were published in English in Proteus and the Magician: The Letters of Henry Miller and John Cowper Powys, ed. by Jacqueline Peltier (Mappowder: Powys Press, 2014).

Some sixty letters, 1918-1964, to John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter from various correspondents, relating mainly to personal matters and to John Cowper Powys's work, with one letter, [n.d.], from John Cowper Powys to Phyllis Playter (ff. 73-76). The correspondents include: J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (10) 1929-1938; Theodore Dreiser (5) 1923-1939; Emma Goldman (2) 1936-1937; Marianne Moore (6) 1926-1929; Sir Osbert Sitwell (2) 1935; and Stevie Smith (2, and two illustrated poems) 1951-1952.

Drafts of poems by John Cowper Powys, published between 1896 and 1926; a heavily worked draft of an incomplete poem in two cantos, published in A Review of English Literature (January 1963); and drafts of over fifty poems, forty-one of which were published posthumously in Horned Poppies ... (1986), the remainder, including a blank verse autobiography, as yet unpublished.

Some eighty letters, 1955-1967, from Gamel Woolsey to Phyllis Playter containing details of her life in Malaga, together with comments on reading matter and on some of John Cowper Powys's works.