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Letters from John Cowper Powys to family members and friends, including the poet Huw Menai (Huw Owen Williams) and the poet and novelist Gamel Woolsey.

Some one hundred and twenty letters, 1907-1961, to Augustus John from various correspondents (surnames Nettleton-R), including Kit Nicholson (1) 1936, Sean O'Casey (7) 1929-1960, John Cowper Powys (4) 1955-1956, John Quinn (1) 1913, Keidrych Rhys (3) 1956-1960, Sir John Rothenstein (2) 1941-1945, William Rothenstein (9) 1907-1935, and Bertrand Russell (5) 1936-1960.

Two letters, 1946-1947, to Gwyn Jones, the first from Dorothea Braby, London, 6 December 1946 (ff. 28-29), and the second from John Cowper Powys, Corwen, 11 November 1947 (ff. 30-32), both of which concern Gwyn and Thomas Jones's new translation of the Mabinogion, published as The Golden Cockerel Mabinogion ([London]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1947).
Braby discusses her illustration for the title page of The Golden Cockerel Mabinogion and includes a written description of its layout (f. 29) (see Professor Gwyn Jones, 'The Golden Cockerel Mabinogion, 1944-1948', Trans. Cymm. (1989), 181-209 (pp. 197-206) for further details and for extracts of related letters from Braby). Powys congratulates Jones on the translation, requests a cheap edition and gives his thoughts on translations in general.

Letters to John Cowper Powys, comprising correspondence from family members, friends and acquaintances, and publishers and agents.

Fourteen letters and four cards, 1962, to John Cowper Powys from well-wishers on his ninetieth birthday (on 8 October 1962) (ff. 1-32), together with a letter of condolence following his death in 1963 to Phyllis Playter from Kewal Motwani, Jabalpur (f. 33).

Llythyrau, 1907-1980, gan gynnwys rhai oddi wrth R. Williams Parry (8); Tom Parry (17); Ffransis G. Payne (35); Harold J. E. Peake; D. Rhys Phillips; Trefin; Eluned Phillips (2); Glyn O. Phillips; Vincent Phillips; Gwynedd O. Pierce; Stuart Piggott (2); a Caradog Prichard (4). Yn ogystal ceir adysgrifau a llungopi o lythyrau, 1937-1955, gan John Cowper Powys at Iorwerth Peate (51), ynghyd â llungopi o lythyr ychwanegol, 1938, gan John Cowper Powys (Llawysgrif LlGC 2340C), llythyrau gan Phyllis Playter (3), ac eraill yn ymwneud â'r gyfrol John Cowper Powys : letters 1937-1954 (Caerdydd, 1974), gan R. Brinley Jones.