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Typed transcripts, by Jeff Kwintner, of one hundred and ninety-six letters, dated 1938-1942, from John Cowper Powys to Huw Menai. The transcripts mostly correspond to the photocopied letters in AAB2/1/1 and the beginning of AAB2/1/2. However letters Nos 1-11 (dated 8 December 1938-24 February 1939) and No 196 (17 June 1942), have photocopies of the originals appended, none of which are to be found in AAB2/1/1-2. Additionally Nos 37, 61, 68, 128, 158, 170 and 173 are transcripts of letters not in AAB2/1/1-2, while seven of the letters present there are not transcribed (see AAB2/1/1, ff. 145-6, 153-4, 160-1, 268-71, 274-9, 436-9, and AAB2/1/2, ff. 71-80).

Autograph drafts of three untitled lectures by John Cowper Powys on Homer, the contents relating to the Homeric Philosophy (ff. 1-26), the humanity and humour of Homer (ff. 27-43), and Books II and III of the Iliad (ff. 44-58).

Autograph drafts of two essays by John Cowper Powys entitled 'Scepticism' and 'Elementalism or My Philosophy', the latter heavily revised.

Over seventy letters, 1940-1955, to John Cowper Powys from various correspondents, including W[illiam] J[ohn] Gruffydd (1) 1942; Timothy Lewis (13) 1943-1954; Iorwerth C[yfeiliog] Peate (19) 1942-1951; Keidrych Rhys (9) 1943-1946; and Sir Ifor Williams (1) 1941. The letters relate mainly to John Cowper Powys's work, the Welsh language and culture, and personal matters.

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'.

First and second autograph drafts, 1940-1941, both extensively revised, of an uncompleted novel by John Cowper Powys entitled 'Edeyrnion'. The work, set in Corwen and containing autobiographical elements, was abandoned in 1941.

Some eighty-nine letters and cards, 1940-1941, from Littleton Charles Powys to John Cowper Powys.

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

Some four hundred and fifty letters, 1942-1962, from John Cowper Powys to Gilbert Turner, mainly containing personal news and comments on the progress of his literary work, particularly the composition and revision of his novel Porius (1951), with occasional references to acquaintances such as the novelists Elena Puw Morgan, James Hanley and Henry Miller, and the poet Huw Owen Williams ('Huw Menai'); together with some two hundred letters, ?1943-1979, to Gilbert Turner from Phyllis Playter, who writes initially as Powys's amanuensis during his periods of ill health and continues the correspondence with Turner after Powys's death in 1963.

Some eighty-one letters and cards, 1943-1945, from Littleton Charles Powys to John Cowper Powys.

Some three hundred and fifty letters, 1945-1969, from Gilbert Turner to John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter, which include references to the novelist Elena Puw Morgan, Welsh language and literature, visits to North Wales, the writer's procurement of library books for the recipients and the preparation of typescript copies of Powys's Dostoievsky (1947) and Rabelais (1948). Turner continued corresponding with Phyllis Playter after John Cowper Powys's death in 1963.

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.

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.

Some thirty-four letters and cards, 1946-1947, from Littleton Charles Powys to John Cowper Powys.

An uncorrected typescript of the original full text of John Cowper Powys's novel Porius, lacking the first chapter.

Some eighty-nine letters and cards, 1949-1950, mostly from Littleton Charles Powys to John Cowper Powys, with five from Littleton to Phyllis Playter (ff. 14-16, 74-75, 128, 139, 151).

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).

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.

Some seventy-seven letters and cards, 1951-1952, mostly from Littleton Charles Powys to John Cowper Powys, with six from Littleton to Phyllis Playter (ff. 17, 33-35, 115-116, 136-138, 155, 187-188).