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- 1929-1979 (Creation)
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107 ff. (2 envelopes in 1 folder)
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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.
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Arranged chronologically within each series of letters.
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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 รข 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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Right-hand edge of f. 77 fragile.
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- Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963 -- Death and burial (Subject)
- Playter, Phyllis -- Friends and associates -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Johnson, J. Hamilton C., Father (Subject)
- Denson, Alan (Subject)
- Sims, George (Subject)
- Collins, H. P. (Harold P.) (Subject)
- Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 (Subject)
- Meech, Dorothy May (Subject)
- Steiner, George, 1929- (Subject)
- Wilson, Angus, 1913- (Subject)
- Van Kirk, Harold A. (Subject)
- Knight, G. Wilson (George Wilson), 1897-1985 (Subject)
- Pollinger, Gerald (Subject)
- Jenkins, David, 1912-2002 (Subject)
- Titzell, Josiah (Subject)
- Ficke, Gladys (Subject)
- Truesdale, Mary (Subject)
- Dreiser, Helen (Subject)
- Masters, Edgar Lee, 1868-1950 (Subject)
- O'Neill, Bernard Price, 1865-1947 (Subject)
- Hopkins, Kenneth, 1914- (Subject)
- Hara, Ichiro, 1902-1984 (Subject)
- Akiyama, Minoru, son of Tetsuo Akiyama (Subject)
- Krissdottir, Morine (Subject)
- Anderson, John Redwood, 1883-1964 (Subject)
- Anderson, Gwyneth (Subject)
- Sewell, Brocard (Subject)
- McLaren, Moray (Subject)
- Powys, Francis Llewellyn, 1909-1998 (Subject)
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Bethan Ifan.