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Letters to John Cowper Powys arranged alphabetically, A-E. The correspondents are as follows: Tetsuo Akiyama (5), 1961-1964 + 1 undated Christmas card; Margaret Armstrong (1), 1953; Avice Maud Bowbyes (1), 1960 (reference to the death of the novelist, poet and playwright Reginald Hunter); Nellie Browne (1), [1920s]; Adrian Bury (2), 1946; A. B. Clinkscales (1), 1957; Benjamin De Casseres (1), 1937; Helen Dreiser (1) [?incomplete], undated; P. [?W.] Drinkwater, of the Home Office (1), 1937; Malcolm Elwin (2), 1944, 1960; and Emily, family nurse (1), undated.

Genealogical Papers including certified extracts from parish registers and copies of birth and death certificates, 1748-1927, correspondence, 1871-1946, pedigree of the Morsehead family of Widey Court, early 18 cent.-1899, from whom Maud Fitzwilliams was descended; a printed work by George W. Marshall entitled Notes on the Surname of Hall, 1887; a rough pedigree of the descendants of William Hall of Bristol, mid 18 cent.-mid 19 cent.; pedigree of the Hall family of Ashford Bowdler, Shropshire, 1691-1761; together with copies of monumental inscriptions relating to the same, 1733-92 and copied late 19 cent.; monumental inscriptions, certified extracts from parish registers and a rough pedigree of the Hall family of Screveton, Nottinghamshire, mid 17 cent.-1798; a printed work by Arthur Hepburn Hastie entitled Notes on the Supplemental Pedigree of the Hastie Family [of East Grinstead, Sussex] post 1913; genealogical tables of the Campbells of Clenary and Pennymore, Scotland, 1650-late 19 cent.; a pedigree of the Brathwaite family of Ambleside and Warcop, Kent, late 15 cent. onwards and compiled in 1830, and a volume containing memoranda and notes compiled by Charles Home Lloyd Fitzwilliams in 1880 from family papers (this volume also contains copy court rolls of the court leet and view of frankpledge of man. Duffryn Tivy, co. Card., 1834-50), and a pedigree of Sir Robert Peel, c. 1841.

Letters to Phyllis Playter from Mabel Powys, first wife of Littleton Charles Powys (1), [1940] (with a short note from Littleton Charles Powys); John Cowper Powys's sister, Philippa (Katie) Powys (8), [1945], [1948], 1957, 1960 (one letter, 1960, containing a note from Katie's sister, Lucy Penny; Isobel Powys Marks, daughter of John Cowper Powys's brother, Albert Reginald (Bertie) Powys (13 letters and 2 postcards), 1946, 1949, 1959, 1963, 1964, 1971 and undated; Lucy Penny's daughter, Mary Casey (16 letters and 2 postcards), 1949, 1953, 1958-1963, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1972 (reference to scattering John Cowper Powys's ashes on Chesil Beach and the death of Llewelyn Powys's wife, Alyse Gregory), and Mary's husband, Gerard (1), [?1980] (refers to the death of Mary Casey); John Cowper Powys's niece, Eleanor Powys (1), 1949; John Cowper Powys's son, Littleton Alfred Powys (1), 1949 (enclosing four photographs of Littleton Alfred, one taken with John Cowper Powys, and three of which are inscribed by Littleton Alfred Powys, with a note by Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir on f. 51) and an undated photograph of St Dominic's Church, Dursley, Gloucestershire, inscribed on the dorse by Littleton Alfred; John Cowper Powys's brother, Littleton Charles Powys (1), 1949; Stephen Powys Marks, son of Isobel (1), 1959; John Cowper Powys's sister-in-law, Faith Powys (4), 1962, 1963, 1967; Marian Powys's son, Peter Powys Grey (2), 1963, 1966; Antonia Goldhill, daughter of Isobel (4), 1963 and undated); John Francis Cowper Powys, grandson of Theodore Francis Powys (3 letters and 1 postcard), 1967, 1971, 1972 (references to his marriage and including ink drawings illustrating his new home and possessions, and mention of the death of Violet Powys, John's grandmother); John Cowper Powys's brother, William Ernest (Willie) Powys (1), 1967; and Theodore Francis Powys's daughter-in-law, Sally Powys, wife of Francis Llewellyn Powys (5), 1967, 1978, 1980 and undated.

Twenty-two letters and one postcard, 1944, 1946-1947, 1949, 1952-1953, 1957-1960, to John Cowper Powys from his niece Mary Casey, daughter of Lucy Penny. The letters mostly contain personal and family news, with references also to the deaths of novelist and journalist Theodore Dreiser in 1945 (f. 8) and of Joan Lambert Wilkinson, wife of the writer Louis Wilkinson (f. 39), in 1957, Mary's husband Gerard Casey's ill-health in 1959 (ff. 42-46 verso), and Gerard and Mary's response to John Cowper Powys's novel Homer and the Aether (1959) (f. 44). One letter includes a note to John Cowper Powys from Gerard Casey (f. 16-verso). Enclosed with one letter (ff. 27-32) are photographs of Gerard Casey and Mary's uncle William (Willie) Powys and his sons Gilfrid and Charles Powys and of scenes of rural life in Kenya.

Sixteen letters and one postcard, 1939-1961 and undated, to John Cowper Powys from his niece Mary Casey's husband Gerard, who addresses John Cowper Powys as 'dear God-Uncle'. The letters contain mostly personal and family news.

Includes letters from Gerard Casey (2), Reginald Caton (28), Barry Cole (2), Brenda Chamberlain (3), Joseph Clancy (2), Gillian Clarke (10), Gladys Mary Coles (2), Michael J. Collins (2), Jack Common (2), Don Congdon (8), Anthony Conran (7), B. L. Coombes (2), Herbert W. Corby (5), and Tony Curtis (25).

Thirty-four letters and six postcards, 1953-[?1963] and undated, to John Cowper Powys from his sister, Lucy Penny, containing mostly family news, including the death of John Cowper Powys's son Littleton Alfred in 1954 and the final illness and death of Lucy's and John Cowper Powys's brothers Theodore Francis (1953) and Littleton Charles (1955). Two of the letters are written from Allington Sanatorium, Bridport. Enclosures comprise one letter to Lucy from her husband's cousin, Nellie Hounsell, three letters and one note to Phyllis Playter from Lucy, one letter to Lucy from her daughter, Mary Casey, and one letter to Phyllis Playter from Philippa (Katie) Powys. Included as part of this correspondence and filed within an envelope are one undated letter and two undated postcards which pre-date the deaths of Theodore, Littleton Alfred and Littleton Charles but which cannot be placed with any certainty within the chronology of the collection.

A copy of Rhys Jones, Gorchestion Beirdd Cymru ... (Amwythig, 1773), with manuscript notes and corrections.

An interleaved copy of Barddoniaeth Dafydd ab Gwilym ... (Liverpool, 1873), with numerous manuscript notes.

A Request [from William Powell] to his cousin at Usk to send him particulars of the quantity of honey and spices to make a barrel of bragot, and for the name of the woman at Uske to make the same, with answers to these and various other queries.

R6/1079/9.
What will the Dance Do?
First broadcast: 14 June 1987 to 2 July 1987.
UID: noted below.
Four typed scripts.
BBC radio scripts for What will the Dance Do? See following details:

1 - 4 June 1987, UID: 86CC0041;
2 - 11 June 1987, UID: 86CC0042;
4 - 25 June 1987, UID: 86CC0044CHO;
5 - 2 July 1987, UID: 86CC0045CHO.

Miscellaneous papers kept by John Ceiriog Hughes comprising draft poetry, adjudications, correspondence, notes, and accounts; lawsuit papers, including a draft summons to Isaac Clarke, printer and publisher, of Ruthin, 1862, concerning inter alia the copyright of Oriau'r Bore; proof sheets of John Ceiriog Hughes's application and testimonials for an appointment as commercial traveller, 1871, and of the prospectus of the Mynyddog Memorial appeal, 1877; and a small poster advertising meetings of 'Cymdeithas Lenyddol Gymreig Manceinion', 1858, including lectures by John Hughes (Ceiriog) and William Williams (Creuddynfab).

Some one hundred and five undated draft letters, [c. 1927]-[c. 1932], from Gwen John to Véra Oumançoff, containing mainly personal news and reflections but including references to drawing in church (ff. 13-14, 49); showing her pictures to Véra and the latter's reactions to them (ff. 41, 47, 50, 52-56); the 'dessins du lundi' (ff. 40, 50, 76, 95, 107, 127, 129-130); general reference to her work (ff. 19, 31, 51, 87, 115-116); rough sketches (ff. 79 verso, 83, 86 verso); visits to the Galerie Bernheim (f. 125), and to la Chapelle du Val (f. 124); fragmentary drafts of letters to her godmother (f. 46 verso) and to [?Chloe Boughton-Leigh] (f. 134 verso).

Some eighty-two draft letters, July 1927-April 1932, from Gwen John to Véra Oumançoff, containing mainly personal news and reflections but also including references to John's drawing in church (ff. 1-4, 42 verso); showing her pictures to Véra, and the latter’s reactions to them (ff. 12 verso, 29 verso, 30, 38-40 verso, 66); the 'dessins du lundi' (ff. 56, 78, 97); general references to her work (ff. 21, 23); notes on colours and tones (f. 41); rough sketches (f. 90 verso); the demolition of the mairie [at Meudon] and new buildings going up (ff. 60-62); the dampness of the house where she lives (f. 87); fragmentary drafts of letters to Tom Burns (ff. 34, 53 verso).

Some one hundred and thirty draft letters, [c. 1908]-1938, from Gwen John to various correspondents (surnames P-W), including Rainer Maria Rilke (4) [c. 1910]-1913, Auguste Rodin (57) [c. 1908]-[c. 1916], and Ursula Tyrwhitt (4) 1911-1938.

Some forty draft letters, 1919-1939, from Gwen John to various correspondents (surnames A-N), including Chloe and Grilda Boughton-Leigh (1) ?1920s, Tom Burns (4) 1927-c. 1928-1929, Father Martin D'Arcy (1) 1933, Mary Constance Lloyd (5) c. 1920-1930, Dorelia McNeill (7) c. 1928-1936, and various members of the John family.

Letters, 1813-1819, from Lord Carrington to his daughter Hester, with a few to his son-in-law Henry Williams Wynn.

Transferred to NLW, Adran Mapiau / Maps Department [Crosswood 345-346].