Showing 456 results

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

Draft manuscript poems by John Cowper Powys which would later be included in his poetical anthology Wolf's Bane (1916), together with one heavily-worked poem (ff. 8-10) which does not seem to have appeared in the volume.

Manuscript drafts of five poems by John Cowper Powys which later appeared in his poetic anthology Odes and other Poems (1896), and one which appeared in Poems (1899).

Draft manuscript and some typescript poems by John Cowper Powys, including one poem (f. 3) in the hand of Phyllis Playter.

Drafts of poems by John Cowper Powys, published between 1896 and 1926; a heavily worked draft of an incomplete poem in two cantos, published in A Review of English Literature (January 1963); and drafts of over fifty poems, forty-one of which were published posthumously in Horned Poppies ... (1986), the remainder, including a blank verse autobiography, as yet unpublished.

A hardcover notebook containing incomplete manuscript drafts by Phyllis Playter of a prose piece entitled 'Where Other Rivers Flow'. The back of the volume contains diary entries and personal memoranda by Phyllis Playter, in which she mentions John Cowper Powys and the health of her father Franklin Playter; a note (f. 65 verso) by Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir suggests the date 1929 for at least part of this section. A Joplin Printing Company label is pasted on the inside front cover. Inserts comprise a printed representation of the frontispiece of J. L. Campbell's novel The Miracle of Peille (between ff. 41 verso and 42) and a feather (between ff. 56 verso and 57). Ff. 2 verso, 9-53, 54-56 verso, 64-65, and 76 verso are blank.

Notebook of John Cowper Powys, [c. 1895]-1901, containing heavily revised drafts of over twenty poems, including an early version of 'To A. C. Swinburne' (ff. 21 verso-22), published in Odes and Other Poems (London, 1896), and of 'Written on Monday Evening March 29' (f. 14 recto-verso; cf. NLW MS 21930E, f. 162), published in Horned Poppies ... (North Walsham, 1986); the opening of a verse play (ff. 25-28); and two prose fragments (ff. 9-13 and 46-47 verso (reverse text)), apparently of Powys's unpublished first novel (see NLW MSS 23672-23676), referred to as 'Work without a name' in Powys's Autobiography (1934), pp. 314-315. Leaves not originally part of the notebook but found loose inside have been filed at the beginning of the volume (ff. 1-8).

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.

Early poems by John Cowper Powys, some in draft form. They include a poem addressed to Powys's mother (ff. 1-4), one booklet labelled 'Very early poems by J.C.P.' (ff. 5-7), one poem dated August 1904 (ff. 8-9), another inscribed 'Sherborne Abbey - March 18th 1888. J.C.P. aged 16 or 15' (f. 11), and one poem in Latin (f. 19). Together with an envelope bearing a note of its (former) contents in Phyllis Playter's hand.

An exercise book containing manuscript drafts of early poems by John Cowper Powys, including 'The Occult Madonna' of 1906.

Ecclesiastical and financial papers of the Reverend Charles Francis Powys, father of John Cowper Powys. The ecclesiastical papers mostly relate to Charles Francis Powys's accession to the livings of St Michael's Church, Shirley, Derbyshire and of St Catherine's Church, Montacute, Somerset, while the financial material comprises bank books and accounts.

Papers, 1867-1886, mostly relating to the Reverend Charles Francis Powys's accession to the livings of St Michael's Church, Shirley, Derbyshire and of St Catherine's Church, Montacute, Somerset. They comprise a Declaration of Ordination of Charles Francis Powys as deacon, dated 17 March 1867; a Declaration of Ordination of Charles Francis Powys into the priesthood, dated 8 March 1868; a Declaration of Admittance of Charles Francis Powys into the living of St Michael's Church, Shirley and the Declaration of Faith of Charles Francis Powys on accepting the living, both dated 25 February 1872, together with a further Declaration of Faith of Charles Francis Powys, dated 1872; a licence to serve as assistant curate at St Peter's Church, Dorchester granted to Charles Francis Powys, dated 24 November 1879, and the Declaration of Faith of Charles Francis Powys made at the same church, dated 30 November 1879; a Declaration of Admittance of Charles Francis Powys to the living of St Catherine's Church, Montacute and a Presentation of the living of the same church to Charles Francis Powys, both dated 5 November 1885, together with a letter, dated 6 November 1885, to Charles Francis Powys from his father-in-law the Reverend William Cowper Johnson congratulating Powys on his accession to the living; and the Declaration of Faith made at St Catherine's Church, Montacute by Charles Francis Powys, dated 3 January 1886.

First and second autograph drafts, 1940-1941, both extensively revised, of an uncompleted novel by John Cowper Powys entitled 'Edeyrnion'. The work, set in Corwen and containing autobiographical elements, was abandoned in 1941.

An address in Welsh by John Cowper Powys, apparently delivered at an Eisteddfod in Corwen.

A typescript, [1927], of John Cowper Powys's essay 'Elusive America', published in the collection Elusive America, ed. Paul Roberts (London, 1994). The typescript is headed by a note, apparently in the hand of Llewelyn Powys (f. 1).

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.

One hundred and seventy four envelopes, 1942-1949, 1950-1954, 1956-1957, addressed to Gilbert Turner 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.

Fifty-one envelopes, 1958-1962, and twenty-six envelopes with indiscernible/missing postmark, addressed to Gilbert Turner 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.

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.

One hundred and thirty-four envelopes, 1952-1957, 1959-1976 and indiscernible/missing postmarks, addressed to Gilbert Turner from Phyllis Playter, together with two envelopes, 1947, 1949, from [Alyse Gregory], one, 1948, from [Lucy Penny], and two, 1966, from an unidentified correspondent, all addressed to Gilbert Turner, the contents of all 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.