Identity area
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Date(s)
- 1938-1954 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
8 folders and 1 bundle in 4 boxes.
Context area
Name of creator
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Photocopies and transcripts of letters from John Cowper Powys to the poet Huw Menai (Huw Owen Williams), together with four manuscript poems by Huw Menai (kept in envelope with 1948-1954 letters).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged at NLW as follows: photocopies (AAB2/1/1-5; arranged chronologically); transcripts (AAB2/1/6).
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions set out in information provided when applying for their Readers' Tickets, whereby the reader shall become responsible for compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 in relation to any processing by them of personal data obtained from modern records held at the Library.
Conditions governing reproduction
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
English, Welsh, some Greek, some Latin.
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Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
The original letters are now in the Powys Collection at Dorset County Museum [on loan to the University of Exeter, 2016].
Existence and location of copies
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Notes area
Note
Title based on contents.
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Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Menai, Huw, 1886-1961 -- Correspondence (Subject)
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Geraint Phillips and Bethan Ifan.