File NLW MS 23677E - John Cowper Powys letters and papers

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NLW MS 23677E

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John Cowper Powys letters and papers

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  • [c. 1900]-1958 (Creation)

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47 ff.

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Letters from John Cowper Powys to his brother, Llewelyn Powys, [1923], his companion, Phyllis Playter, [?1924], 'George', 1958, and a 'Mr London', [?1940s], the latter dictated by Powys to Phyllis Playter; together with miscellaneous literary papers, which comprise drafts of poems, [c. 1900]-1953, including an early version of 'Samphire' (published in Horned Poppies ... (1986)) and of several unpublished anniversary poems addressed to Phyllis Playter; a draft, [?1900]-1902, of an unpublished preface to poems by Alfred de Kantzow; an ink and pencil sketch of the map which forms the end-papers of Powys's novel Ducdame (1925); and drafts of the opening of a philosophical work, 1938, and of a speech in Welsh, [1935x1954], the latter composed by Powys while he was living in Corwen.

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Arranged chronologically within each section.

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English, Welsh.

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For other poems of John Cowper Powys addressed to Phyllis Playter see NLW MS 22811E.

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For the preface to de Kantzow's poems see John Cowper Powys, Autobiography (1934), pp. 236, 259.

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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23677E.

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vtls004661043

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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

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  • Text: NLW MS 23677E.