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John Cowper Powys Manuscripts and Papers Wilkinson, Louis, 1881-1966
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Letters S-W

Letters to John Cowper Powys arranged alphabetically, S-W. The correspondents are as follows: Elisabeth Schoen (3), 1957-1958, 1962 (with enclosed printed piece (in French) relating to the French translation of John Cowper Powys's Autobiography (1934)); Enid Mary Starkie (1), 1956; B. T. W. Stevenson (1), 1957; Martha Sweeney (1), 1928; Gilbert Turner (1 postcard), 1945; Bridie Wall, cousin of Gerard Casey, husband of John Cowper Powys's niece Mary Casey (1), undated (photocopy) (annotated by John Cowper Powys); Theresa Whistler (1), 1959; Louis Wilkinson (2 telegrams), 1919; Dora Williams (10), 1939, 1941, 1943-1944; Huw Menai Williams (2), 1951, 1958 and Anne, his wife (1), 1962 (together with a press cutting, 1951, relating to a luncheon held in Huw Menai's honour, and a printed flyer advertising an edition of the periodical Wales in which an article by Huw Menai appeared); Angus Wilson (3), 1956, 1962-1963; and Gamel Woolsey (2), 1951 (containing her response to John Cowper Powys's novel Porius (1951), 1952 (reference to the death of John Cowper Powys's sister Gertrude Powys).

Letters from Marian Powys

Thirteen letters and one postcard, 1935-1936 and undated, to John Cowper Powys from his sister Marian Powys, mostly containing news of family and friends, including the death of Marian's and John Cowper Powys's brother Albert Reginald (Bertie) Powys in 1936. Enclosures comprise one letter from Marian's son Peter Powys Grey to his uncle John Cowper Powys, and one letter from Marian Powys to Louis Wilkinson in response to her reading of Wilkinson's forthcoming publication Welsh Ambassadors (1936).