File NLW MSS 22506-13C - Porius (unedited typescript)

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Reference code

NLW MSS 22506-13C

Title

Porius (unedited typescript)

Date(s)

  • 1949 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

ii, 1545 ff. (numbered 48-1589; 580-589 duplicated; 639, 746, 836-839 not used; 1296 missing) ; 255 x 205 mm.

Guarded and filed in eight volumes.

Context area

Archival history

Given by Phyllis Playter to Gilbert Turner (see NLW MS 22506C, f. i, and Albrecht, p. xii, n.) whose brief notes appear before each chapter; they subsequently came into the possession of his friend Michael Tracy, Maidenhead.

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Scope and content

An uncorrected typescript of the original full text of John Cowper Powys's novel Porius, lacking the first chapter.

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Conditions governing access

Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions noted on the 'Modern papers - data protection' form issued with their Readers' Tickets.

Conditions governing reproduction

Usual copyright laws apply.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

Language and script notes

English.

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Finding aids

The contents are indexed in greater detail in Handlist of Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales, vol. 8 (Aberystwyth, 1999).

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Another copy of the typescript, corrected and extensively revised by the author, is held at Hamilton (N.Y.), Colgate University Library (see Porius ..., ed. by WIlbur T. Albrecht (Hamilton, N.Y.: Colgate U.P., 1994); for a comparison of that copy with the abridged text first published by Macdonald (London) in 1951, see Joseph Slater, 'Porius Restauratus' in The Powys Newsletter 4 (1974-5), 22-44 (copy in NLW Facs. 659)).
A carbon copy typescript sold at auction at Sotheby's, London, 22 July 1983 (lot 487) seems to correspond closely with the present typescript.

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Note

Original title (Porius).

Note

Preferred citation: NLW MSS 22506-13C.

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vtls004275082

GEAC system control number

(WlAbNL)0000275082

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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

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  • English

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  • Text: NLW MSS 22506-22513C.