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Photocopies of one hundred and twenty-five letters, including two partial (dated) letters and three letters without exact date, two typescript copies, and two postcards, 1950-1952, from John Cowper Powys to his brother Littleton Charles Powys, containing mostly personal news and reflections, with references to the publication of John Cowper Powys's novels Porius (1951) and The Inmates (1952). Some of the letters are illustrated with John Cowper Powys's ink drawings, which include self-caricatures. Also included is a photocopy of an enclosed letter to Littleton Charles Powys from his cousin Katharine, dictated to [? her daughter] Mary (f. 349).

Four letters, 1920, 1937, 1940, 1945, from John Cowper Powys to his sister Marian Powys, containing mainly personal and family news, with a reference to the progress of "my Dark Ages romance" (f. 15 verso) (the novel Porius, published 1951). The letter dated 1940 was returned, with an explanatory note attached, by the censor: an ink drawing on the last page (f. 8 verso) depicting John Cowper Powys shooting at a German parachutist cannot have been well-received (see also 'Letters to Huw Menai from John Cowper Powys' (1940)).

Twenty-two letters, 1945, 1947-1949, 1954, 1959 and undated, from John Cowper Powys to his nephew Peter Powys Grey, son of John Cowper Powys's sister Marian Powys. The letters contain mostly personal philosophical reflections and observations on reading material, with references also to Peter's wedding to Barbara Tyler ('Ty') in 1948 and to John Cowper Powys's forthcoming novel The Brazen Head (published 1956) (f. 56 verso). One letter is illustrated with an ink drawing by John Cowper Powys (f. 51).

Photocopies (some text faint) of one hundred and fifty-eight letters, one postcard and one telegram, 1939-1941, from John Cowper Powys to the poet Huw Menai (Huw Owen Williams). The letters include accounts of the last illness and death of John Cowper Powys's dog 'The Very Old' and the death of his brother Llewelyn Powys, both in 1939, and the death of Powys's friend Frances Gregg in 1941, together with mention of Powys's past works and works in progress, reflections on the war, health matters, and a reference to a letter of 1940 sent by Powys to his sister Marian Powys which was returned by the censor (ff. 186-7) (see 'Letters to Marian Powys from John Cowper Powys'). Many of the letters are illustrated with John Cowper Powys's ink drawings, which include self-caricatures and depictions of Huw Menai as a sea-serpent . Ff. 159, 166-7, 170-1, 207 appear to be draft prose piece(s) by Powys (crossed out). Also included are two photocopied letters, 1939, from Powys to Arfon [?son of Huw Menai]. Enclosures comprise two further photocopied letters from Powys to Arfon (enclosed with letters dated 20 August 1940 and 23 February 1941), a note to Huw Menai from Jean [--?] (f. 157), a note in Welsh to Powys from John Redwood Anderson (f. 422), and a press cutting in Welsh relating to the teaching of Welsh history (f. 503).

Typed transcripts, by Jeff Kwintner, of one hundred and ninety-six letters, dated 1938-1942, from John Cowper Powys to Huw Menai. The transcripts mostly correspond to the photocopied letters in AAB2/1/1 and the beginning of AAB2/1/2. However letters Nos 1-11 (dated 8 December 1938-24 February 1939) and No 196 (17 June 1942), have photocopies of the originals appended, none of which are to be found in AAB2/1/1-2. Additionally Nos 37, 61, 68, 128, 158, 170 and 173 are transcripts of letters not in AAB2/1/1-2, while seven of the letters present there are not transcribed (see AAB2/1/1, ff. 145-6, 153-4, 160-1, 268-71, 274-9, 436-9, and AAB2/1/2, ff. 71-80).

Four letters, 1930, 1942, 1952, 1959, from John Cowper Powys to the poet and novelist Gamel Woolsey. The letters contain references to Powys's preparations prior to embarking on his novel Porius (1951), as well as his response to his brother Llewelyn Powys's novel Apples Be Ripe (1930) and to some writings of Gerald Brenan; there are references also to the death of Powys's sister Gertrude Powys in 1952. Enclosed with the letter of 1959 is a poem addressed to Gamel Woolsey by Powys entitled 'A Pity' (f. 17).

Sixty envelopes, 1938-1945, 1947, 1950-1951, 1953-1954, 1956-1959 and indiscernible/missing postmarks, addressed to C. Benson Roberts, fifty-seven of which are from John Cowper Powys, two from Phyllis Playter and one (f. 58) from an unidentified correspondent; and twenty-one envelopes, 1958-1961, addressed to Susanne Lane, with one (f. 75) to Cyril J. Lane, from John Cowper Powys. The contents of the envelopes have 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.

Manuscript and typescipt drafts of prose works by John Cowper Powys, which include juvenilia composed while Powys was a pupil at Sherborne Preparatory School, proofs and fragments of novels, lecture notes and essays, and an address in Welsh.

A series of notebooks and loose leaves containing parts of a projected (unpublished) first novel by John Cowper Powys, most of which involve a character called Glendower. These narratives are closely related to those contained in NLW MSS 23672-6E.

A school exercise book containing a historical romance entitled 'Llewelyn Meredith, a tale' by John Cowper Powys. The story was composed while Powys was a pupil at Sherborne Preparatory School between 1883 and 1886. The inside front cover is illustrated with ink drawings by Powys showing the profiled heads of some of the characters and a scene from the story. Ff. 14-41 verso inverted text. Ff. 10-31 either detached from spine or inserted from another notebook.

An exercise book containing two chapters of an early story by John Cowper Powys entitled 'The Lost Chord'. The story is a historical romance, apparently written during Powys's school years. F. 1 is illustrated with ink drawings by Powys of two profiled heads.

A sewn booklet containing a manuscript story by John Cowper Powys entitled 'The astonishing adventures of a Zulu a Welshman and an English Sailor (continued)'. The text is a continuation of a story now held, in manuscript, in the Powys Collection at Dorset County Museum, and published in The Powys Society Newsletter, 52 (July 2004), pp. 17-20. The story was apparently composed by Powys at the age of 9. The text is illustrated with an ink drawing by Powys on f. 3. Ff. 5-14 verso blank.

A typescript, ?1928, containing six chapters which were deleted from the final proof of John Cowper Powys's novel Wolf Solent (1929). Powys summarised these chapters in a revised Chapter 19, but with significant events omitted. The manuscript of these six chapters is at Syracuse University Library, New York. The typescript was made by Ms Boyne Grainger, a neighbour of John Cowper Powys in New York, from the holograph manuscript pages now at Syracuse University.

Provenance for the typescript may be established from The Powys Journal Volume XXXI (2021) Supplement: Wolf Solent, The Six Deleted Chapters, available on JSTOR at https://www.jstor.org/journal/powysj. I am indebted to Mr Kevin Taylor, editor of The Powys Journal, for this updated information.

A photocopy of the typescript of John Cowper Powys's novel Porius (minus a lost first chapter), with a typescript introduction by Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir to the most recent (2007) edition of the novel originally published in 1951 and subsequently revised and republished in 1994 and 2007. This text of the novel includes occasional manuscript emendations by John Cowper Powys and several of the individual chapters include notes by Morine Krissdottir.

A carbon copy of a typescript, dated 28 January 1909, of a lecture by John Cowper Powys on the American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. The typescript bears numerous pencilled additions and emendations by Powys.

Typescript notes, with manuscript additions, for a lecture on Homer and typescript notes on the philosophical concepts of Scepticism and Elementalism by John Cowper Powys.