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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).

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.

Two incomplete draft novels by John Cowper Powys, the first (ff. 1-13, originally numbered 86-98, headed 'Chapter 2') being a fragment apparently excluded from a draft of Rodmoor (1916), the second (ff. 14-128, originally numbered 2-115) being a draft of chapters 1-4 of a novel set in East Sussex in 1920.

A heavily worked draft of an unpublished novella by John Cowper Powys, apparently written in 1952 (see f. 46), entitled 'The Death of God or Jack and Jill and the Absolute'; together with notes on Classical Greek (ff. 61-72), written during Powys's later years.

Over three hundred and seventy letters from Littleton Charles Powys to his elder brother John Cowper Powys, 1925-1955 (mostly dating from 1944) containing family news and reminiscences and comments on works by the Powys brothers; together with a few letters from Littleton Charles Powys to Phyllis Playter and from Elizabeth Myers, Littleton's second wife, to John Cowper Powys.

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.

Autograph manuscript of Wolf Solent (New York and London, 1929), containing extensive revision and differing somewhat from the novel as published, a number of cuts having been made at a later stage (NLW MSS 22373-6D); together with partially-corrected galley proofs of the first American edition of Wolf Solent (New York, 1929) (NLW MS 22377D).

Letters from John Cowper Powys to James Hanley (3), 1929-1930; John Wilstach (1), 1932; and Charlotte Miller (3), 1934-1935; together with a poem by Charlotte Miller addressed to John Cowper Powys.

Seventy-nine letters and two postcards, 1932-1958, from John Cowper Powys to the bibliophile Lloyd Emerson Siberell, relating mainly to Powys's work.

Diary of John Cowper Powys for the period 1 June-31 December 1929, the first in an unbroken series that ends in 1961 (see NLW MSS 22206-41B). Commencing with his departure from New York on a visit to England, it was probably started for the benefit of his companion, Phyllis Playter, who remained in the USA (cf. NLW MS 23172C, f. 7). The diary also includes accounts and miscellaneous jottings (f. iv; pp. 1, 5, 14-19, 46, 400). Selections from the diary have been published in Petrushka and the Dancer: The diaries of John Cowper Powys 1929-1939, ed. by Morine Krissdóttir (Manchester, New York and Paris, 1995).

An incomplete prose tale by John Cowper Powys entitled 'The Knight of the Festoon'; set in medieval Wales, the work was written in 1883, when the author was eleven years old.

Four unpublished prose pieces by John Cowper Powys: 'The Hunchback's House', an outline, possibly of a projected novel (ff. 1-11), its sequel, an untitled short story (ff. 12-14), and an unfinished story outline (ff. 15-16), all set in the United States and dating, apparently, from the author's residence there; and 'Whatsoever' (ff. 17-27), an amalgam of philosophical reflection and journal, written in 1960.

Drafts of eight poems by John Cowper Powys written for Phyllis Playter, most of them bearing the dedication 'to the T.T.', together with a pencilled caricature (f. 5) inscribed 'To my Valentine Feb 14 1949'.

Eight letters, [1927]-[1928], from John Cowper Powys to Phyllis Playter's mother, Mrs Minnie H. Playter (ff. 4-17 verso), and one letter, [1927], from him to Phyllis Playter (f. 1).

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'.

A series of over eight hundred love letters, 1921-1932, from John Cowper Powys to his companion, Phyllis Playter. The majority of the letters, which begin shortly after their first meeting in March 1921, were written during the course of Powys's lecture tours in the United States, while others (see NLW MSS 23162D, 23164D, 23166D, 23172C) describe his visits to England and contain accounts of meetings with members of his family and with the novelist Thomas Hardy.