Sub-series AC1/1 - John Cowper Powys estate, literary executorship and copyright papers

Papers relating to the wills of John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter and to the literary executorship, copyright, translation rights and royalies, etc. of John Cowper Powys's estate concerning proposed publication and translation of, and performance rights, copyright and royalties relating to, the works of John Cowper Powys, with some of the papers relating also to the works of his brother Theodore Francis Powys and his sister Philippa (Katie) Powys. The literary executorship of both John Cowper Powys and Theodore Francis Powys was in the hands of Phyllis Player until she transferred it to John Cowper Powys's nephew, Theodore's son Francis Llewellyn Powys by deed of gift in 1972; Francis, in turn, transferred it by deed of gift to his son John Francis Cowper Powys in 1994.