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Letters from John Cowper Powys to various members of his family, including some of his siblings, his mother Mary Cowper Powys, and his son Littleton Alfred Powys.

Revised autograph draft, [c. 1960]-1961, of John Cowper Powys's fantastic story 'Cataclysm', begun early in 1960 and published in Three Fantasies (1985).

Revised autograph draft, [c. 1960]-1961, of John Cowper Powys's fantastic story 'Abertackle', begun in 1960 and published in Three Fantasies (1985).

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).

A typescript copy, [c. 1960], with editor's corrections, of John Cowper Powys's novella Real Wraiths (1974), written in 1959.

Letters from John Cowper Powys to family members and friends, including the poet Huw Menai (Huw Owen Williams) and the poet and novelist Gamel Woolsey.

Letters from John Cowper Powys to various friends and acquaintances, including a substantial number of (photocopied) letters to the poet Huw Menai (Huw Owen Williams) and letters to the poet and novelist Gamel Woolsey. Also included are a number of envelopes addressed to Gilbert Turner and others from John Cowper Powys, the contents of the envelopes having been removed.

A typescript copy, [c. 1960], with editor's corrections, of John Cowper Powys's novella Two and Two (1974), written in 1959.

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).

Address book kept by John Cowper Powys during the last twenty years of his life, with additional entries and emendations by Phyllis Playter. The volume also contains miscellaneous jottings by John Cowper Powys, including a list of characters (ff. 89 verso-90) for his story 'Abertackle'.

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.

Some one hundred and eight letters, 1917-1965, to John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter from various correspondents, including Theodore Dreiser (2), 1927; George Wilson Knight (31), 1956-1965; Edgar Lee Masters (1), 1944; Henry Miller (1), 1950; John Cowper Powys's brother, Llewelyn Powys (3), 1928-1931; Dr Enid Starkie (2), 1943-1946; and Gamel Woolsey (15), 1928-1961.

Over one hundred and twenty letters, 1946-1967, from Alyse Gregory, widow of Llewelyn Powys, to Phyllis Playter, the majority of which belong to the period 1960-1967; together with four letters, 1957-1961, from Alyse Gregory to John Cowper Powys (NLW MS 21937E, ff. 11, 22, 47, 73). The letters contain frequent family references, particularly to Gertrude Powys and Katie Powys, and discussion regarding the preservation of Powys family manuscripts, diaries and correspondence.

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.

Over two hundred letters, 1924-1967, from Alyse Gregory, widow of John Cowper Powys's brother, Llewelyn Powys, to Phyllis Playter. There are frequent references to family and friends, and to the publication and preservation of the correspondence and literary manuscripts of John Cowper Powys and Llewelyn Powys.