File AC1/4/3 - Notebooks

Seven notebooks, [1970s-1990s], of Francis Llewellyn Powys, one of which has most of the leaves and the front cover missing with the volume inverted and the text written from the rear, mostly relating to the proposed publication of John Cowper Powys's letters and diaries. They contain draft letters, a short autobiographical piece (f. 68), what appears to be a draft of a driver's insurance claim (ff. 1, 2, 3), personal accounts, arithmetical calculations and rough memoranda. Two of the notebooks (ff. 85- 221) contain notes detailing receipt of royalties from publication, film adaptations, etc. of John Cowper Powys's and Theodore Francis Powys's works. Some of the notebooks contain rough sketches and drawings and there is evidence of watercolour paint mixing on f. 83. Also included are an undated draft letter from Francis Llewellyn Powys to Denzil de Silva of Laurence Pollinger Ltd, literary agents, London, relating to sales and royalties of some of John Cowper Powys's works and a copy of a letter, 1976, to Phyllis Playter, but marked for the attention of Francis Llewellyn Powys, from Laurence Pollinger Ltd, on the back of which Francis has written rough arithmetical calculations and a draft letter, probably his intended response to Pollinger's letter.