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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).

Photocopies (some text faint) of twenty letters, 1944, from John Cowper Powys to the poet Huw Menai (Huw Owen Williams), mostly discussing the compilation and publishing of a volume of poetry by Huw Menai eventually titled The Simple Vision (1945), for which Powys wrote a preface, and there is brief mention also of Huw Menai's (unpublished) autobiography. Other references include the health of Huw Menai and of Elizabeth Myers, wife of Powys's brother Littleton Charles Powys. Some of the letters are illustrated with Powys's ink drawings, mostly caricatures of himself and of Huw Menai.

Photocopies (some text faint) of forty-seven letters (one apparently incomplete) and one postcard, 1945-1947, from John Cowper Powys to the poet Huw Menai (Huw Owen Williams). The letters include references to health matters, works in progress, and family news, including the death of Powys's wife Margaret and of his brother Littleton Charles Powys's wife Elizabeth Myers, both in 1947. Enclosures comprise a photocopy of a letter [?from one of Huw Menai's daughters to her mother] (f. 5), a photocopy of printed poems by Kenneth Hopkins as they appeared in 'The Grasshopper' (f. 26), and a photocopy of a letter to Huw Menai from 'Mam o Nedd', i.e. Winifred Coombe Tennant (ff. 47-50). Some of the letters are illustrated with Powys's ink drawings, which include caricatures of himself and of Huw Menai, the latter often depicted as a sea-serpent.

Photocopies of sixty letters, 1948-1952, 1954, from John Cowper Powys to the poet Huw Menai (Huw Owen Williams), including two letters, 1952, dictated by John Cowper Powys to Phyllis Playter. The letters include references to works in progress, health matters, house-hunting in Blaenau Ffestiniog, and family news, including the death of Phyllis Playter's mother in 1953 and of Powys's son Littleton Alfred in 1954. Enclosed with one letter is a photocopy of a letter of invitation to an official lunch from the Mayor of Merthyr Tydfil to Huw Menai (f. 111). Some of the letters are illustrated with Powys's ink drawings, which include caricatures of himself and of Huw Menai, the latter sometimes depicted as a sea-serpent. Together with four poems by Huw Menai, one of which (dated 23rd February 1956) is dedicated to John Cowper Powys and includes notes on the poem.

Photocopies of ten letters, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1960 and undated, from John Cowper Powys to the rare book dealer and publisher George Sims.

A letter, 1961, from John Cowper Powys to Hywel Davies. The letter was returned to the sender.

Envelopes addressed to the librarian Gilbert Turner, C. Benson Roberts and Susanne Lane from John Cowper Powys, the contents of the envelopes having been removed. These items were purchased with the letters contained in NLW MSS 23493-23498E, 23499D and should be considered as part of that collection.

An exercise book containing draft fiction, possibly part of a projected first novel, by John Cowper Powys. The narrative involves characters with the following names: Glendower, Lacrima Colonna, Pattie Vamp, Pol Turdipole and Ray Runnymede. Ff. 20-24 verso, 27-28 verso blank.

A notebook containing heavily worked drafts, apparently parts of an unpublished first novel, by John Cowper Powys. The draft narratives involve characters with the following names: Glendower, Hugh Bigod, Theophilus Grave and Mr Pontifex. Ff. 60, 72 blank; ff. 54-verso, 55 verso, 56 verso, 57 verso-59 verso, 60 verso, 61 verso, 65 (partly)-71 verso, 72 verso-73 inverted text.

A bundle of loose leaves containing heavily worked drafts, possibly parts of an uncompleted early novel, by John Cowper Powys. The drafts involve characters with the following names: Owen Glendower, Mr and Mrs Suckfist, Hugh Bigod, Reverend Mark Pontifex and Lacrima.

Draft typescript preface by Jean Wahl to Les Sables de la Mer (1958), the translation into French by Marie Canavaggia of John Cowper Powys's novel Weymouth Sands (1934). The typescript contains manuscript emendations by Marie Canavaggia. Together with two typescript biographical pieces relating to Powys, one, by Marie Canavaggia, containing particular references to Powys's novels.

A typescript copy of an unfinished study by John Cowper Powys of Aristophanes' play The Acharnians, together with an envelope, in which the typescript was originally kept, bearing a note on the contents in the hand of Phyllis Playter. The manuscript of the work is in the Powys Collection at Dorset County Museum. The text was published in 1984.

Printed notices of John Cowper Powys's works Wood and Stone (1915), Rodmoor (1916), Wolf's Bane (1916), Visions and Revisions (1915), Suspended Judgements (1916), One Hundred Best Books (1916) and The Complex Vision (1920); and a photocopy of an undated newspaper cutting showing a photograph of Powys under the headline 'Follower of Hardy'.

A notebook containing draft manuscript poems and a short manuscript prose piece by John Cowper Powys, apparently written while he was a pupil at Sherborne School. Some of the poems refer to school life ('Prelude', 'Ode on Billy Seymour', 'End of Term'), while other poems are entitled 'My nickname', 'Corfe Castle at Night', 'Ancient Gods', 'Lyttleton's [sic] nickname' (addressed to Powys's brother Littleton Charles Powys), 'A fight between Thor and Zeus', and 'A ghost story'. There are ink and pencil drawings by Powys on ff. 2 verso, 3 verso-4. Some leaves blank. A note on the book's cover is in the hand of Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir.

An exercise book containing draft manuscript poetry by John Cowper Powys, titles including 'A modern Melody' and 'By the Arun'. Ff. 7-verso, 11 verso, 12 verso, 16 verso, 17 verso, 18 verso, 19 verso, 20 verso-22 verso and 25 verso-39 verso blank.

Unpublished manuscript and typescript poems (one photocopied), most in draft form, by John Cowper Powys, including 'The Dream of Rhonabwy' (ff. 1-6) (apparently incomplete). One of the poems is written on the back of a letter (inverted text) from Miriam Louch to Mr [?Irask] (ff. 7-8). F. 62 bears a (much later) dedication to Alyse Gregory in John Cowper Powys's hand.

Draft manuscript poetry by John Cowper Powys, which include a poem entitled 'A Panegyric upon the World'.

Miscellaneous material of or relating to Father Littleton Alfred Powys, son of John Cowper Powys, including a collection of Littleton Alfred's poems.

Miscellaneous material of or relating to Father Littleton Alfred Powys, son of John Cowper Powys. They comprise Littleton Alfred's baptismal certificate, [1914]; his Declaration of Ordination, 1927, 1928; birthday greetings to him from his mother Margeret Powys, 1930; a press cutting relating to his service as army chaplain during the Second World War; a holograph copy of his poem 'The Sound'; four photographs showing a procession of nuns and children from Nympsfield Orphanage, Dursley, Gloucestershire, 1950 (with notes on dorse by Littleton Alfred); an undated photograph of Dinah White, close friend of Littleton Alfred, with Dinah's name inscribed on the back cover in Phyllis Playter's hand; press obituaries (one in Welsh) of Littleton Alfred Powys, [1954], including one taken from The Beda Review; an envelope containing an embroidered handkerchief and photograph [?of Littleton Alfred], undated, the envelope inscribed 'From Littleton Alfred's Silver Box' in Phyllis Playter's hand; a copy, in the hand of Littleton Charles Powys (Littleton Alfred's uncle), of a letter from Dinah White, dated 22 August 1954, to Littleton Charles, together with typescript notes by Littleton Charles on Littleton Alfred's poem 'Ode to the West Wind', including public response to the work (see also NLW MS 24061D); and a printed copy of Littleton Alfred's poem 'Ode to the West Wind', at the back of which is inserted a press cutting from The Listener, 24 June 1954, relating to Theodore Francis Powys's possible influence on Dylan Thomas's 'Under Milk Wood'. There is a note in Morine Krissdottir's hand on f. 8.

Papers, 1954-1994, relating to the wills of John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter and to the literary executorship, related copyright and royalies, etc. of John Cowper Powys's estate. The material includes the first codicil, dated 1955, to John Cowper Powys's will; deeds of gift of literary executorship made by Phyllis Playter to Francis Llewellyn Powys, dated 1972, and by Francis Llewellyn Powys to his son John Francis Cowper Powys, dated 1994 (unsigned); photocopies of the last will and testament of Phyllis Playter, dated 16 April 1981 (signed), and of the probate of the will of Phyllis Playter, dated 8 June 1982; together with four letters, 1954-1955, from Alfred Blundell, solicitors, London, three letters, 1954, 1964, from Ribbons, Winder & Sons Ltd, income tax consultants, Rhyl, and one letter, 1973, from Hunter's, solicitors, London.