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Knight, G. Wilson (George Wilson), 1897-1985
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Letters from other friends and acquaintances

Letters to Phyllis Playter from Father J. Hamilton C. Johnson (1), 1929; Marianne Moore (1), 1929; Edgar Lee Masters (6), 1930-1932 (typescript copies); Helen Dreiser (1), 1933; Bernard O'Neill (2), 1945; Alan Denson (1), 1955; George F. Sims (1), 1956; John Redwood Anderson (7 letters and 1 postcard), 1959, 1961-1963, his wife Gwyneth Anderson (3), 1963 and undated, and from both John Redwood and Gwyneth Anderson (1), [1963] (references to the death of John Cowper Powys); Mary Truesdale (1),1960; Dorothy May Meech (1), 1960; Kenneth Hopkins (1), 1961; Ichiro Hara (6), 1962, 1964, 1974, 1979; Minoru Akiyama (1), 1962; George Steiner (1), 1962; Brocard Sewell (1), 1963, and Moray McLaren (1), 1963, regarding a proposed radio broadcast of John Cowper Powys's son Littleton Alfred Powys's poem 'Ode to the West Wind'; Angus Wilson (1 telegram), 1963 (expressing sympathy on the death of John Cowper Powys); Harold A. Van Kirk (1), 1963; G. Wilson Knight (1), 1964; Harold P. Collins (5),1965-1966; Gerald Pollinger (1), 1975 (with typescript copy of a letter from Phyllis Playter to Gerald Pollinger dated 23 October 1975) (beginning of draft letter to G[erald Pollinger] in Francis Llewellyn Powys's hand on f. 100 verso); and David Jenkins of the National Library of Wales (1), 1979; together with undated letters from Josiah Titzell (1), Gladys Ficke (1), and Fred [ ? ] of Birkenhead. Some of the letters are inscribed with notes by Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir.

Letters K-P

Letters to John Cowper Powys arranged alphabetically, K-P. The correspondents are as follows: Florian Karsch (1), 1951 (enclosing a photostatic copy of a letter, 1945, to Victor Goldschmidt from John Cowper Powys) (both letters refer to correspondence between John Cowper Powys and Florian Karsch's father Joachim Karsch); the Reverend H. R. King (1 postcard), 1927; George Wilson Knight (1), 1957; Derek Wilton Langridge (1), 1956 (the envelope inscribed by John Cowper Powys (f. 7)); [? C. McStrace] (1), no year noted (photocopy); John Middleton Murry (2), 1946; John Morgan, husband of novelist Elena Puw Morgan (1), 1945; Bernard Price O'Neill (3 letters, 2 greeting notes and 1 postcard), 1937, 1942-1943, 1945, O'Neill's daughter Jill Olson (1), 1947, and his son Brian O'Neill (1), 1947 (the latter two letters referring to the death of Bernard Price O'Neill); Doris Pascal (1), 1918; Iorwerth C. Peate, of the National Museum of Wales (1), 1942 (photocopy) (translated interlineally by John Cowper Powys, or at least in his hand); William Perrott, on behalf of The Society of Dorset Men (1), 1962 (nominating John Cowper Powys for Honorary Life Membership of the Society); Charles Rollo Peters (1), undated; and Jacquetta Priestley (née Hawkes) (2), 1955-1956.