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- 1947-1960 (Creation)
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50 ff. (1 folder)
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Photocopies of forty letters, 1947-1948, 1951-1960 and undated, from John Cowper Powys to Jill Olson and one photocopied letter, 1947, to Jill Olson's father, Powys's close friend Bernard O'Neill (f. 1), together with a photocopy of an enclosed printed publication notice for Powys's literary study of Rabelais (1948) (f. 8-verso). The letters to Jill Olson contain references to the deaths in 1947 of Bernard O'Neill and of Powys's sister-in-law Elizabeth Powys (née Myers) and to the onset and progression of the neural disease which afflicted Powys's son Littleton Alfred, leading to his death in 1954, while the letter to Bernard O'Neill mentions the latter's failing health and that Powys had begun the final chapters of "my Romance of the Dark Ages" (i.e. his novel Porius, published in 1951).
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Arranged chronologically.
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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. = Disgwylir i ddarllenwyr sydd am ddefnyddio papurau modern yn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru gydymffurfio â Deddf Gwarchod Data 1998 yng nghyd-destun unrhyw brosesu ganddynt o ddata personol a gasglwyd o gofnodion modern sydd ar gadw yn y Llyfrgell. Nodir y manylion yn yr wybodaeth a roddir wrth wneud cais am Docyn Darllen.
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Usual copyright laws apply.
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English.
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Some folios illegible/barely legible.
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- Olson, Jill -- Correspondence (Subject)
- O'Neill, Bernard Price, 1865-1947 -- Health (Subject)
- O'Neill, Bernard Price, 1865-1947 -- Death and burial (Subject)
- Myers, Elizabeth, 1912-1947 -- Death and burial (Subject)
- Powys, Littleton A. -- Health (Subject)
- Powys, Littleton A. -- Death and burial (Subject)
- O'Neill, Bernard Price, 1865-1947 (Subject)
- Olson, Jill (Subject)
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Description compiled by Bethan Ifan.