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Seventy-two items of Phyllis Plater, nineteen items of which are a collection referred to by her as 'Precious, Precious'. The papers mainly comprise draft prose and poetry by Phyllis Playter, together with three items taken from printed sources. Inserted into both sets of papers are notes on the material by Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir. Also included is a hardcover notebook containing draft prose and personal memoranda by Phyllis Playter.

Drafts of unpublished poems and prose pieces, [1921x1934], by Phyllis Playter, including a story in French entitled 'Voyage à l'infini' (f. 1-14), five chapters of a story entitled 'Mrs Telfair's Companion' (ff. 53-76), and a fragment of a poem called 'Cimmeria' (ff. 77-78), together with what purports to be the first chapter of John Cowper Powys's novel The Inmates (1952) (ff. 86-8), though Playter's text does not tally with the corresponding section of the published work. The items were preserved by Playter in an envelope marked 'Precious, Precious'. Inserted into the papers are original manuscript and photocopied notes on the material by Morine Krissdottir.

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.

Fifty-four manuscript and typescript items, [1912x1934], of Phyllis Playter comprising mostly draft prose and poetry, some of which is fragmentary, together with a prose piece copied by Phyllis Playter from the works of Rainer Maria Rilke (ff. 96-8), a poem by Phyllis Playter copied out in a later (cataloguer's) hand (f. 41 recto-verso) and three items taken from printed sources, namely 'The Man in the Moon' by François de Curel, translated from the French by Phyllis Playter (ff. 123-6 verso), a play entitled 'Good-Bye, Georgette' by Phyllis Playter (ff. 127-8), and 'Dialogues of the Dead' by Bernard de Bovier de Fontenelle, translated from the French by Phyllis Playter (ff. 129-45) (photocopy). Some of the items are duplicated and one poem, 'The Dead', is also found in Phyllis Playter's 'Precious, Precious' collection. Inserted into the papers are photocopied notes on the material by Morine Krissdottir.

Typed copies of one hundred and eleven letters and three apparently incomplete letters, 1916-1921, 1923-1926, 1928-1933, 1938-1949, 1951-1952 and undated, to John Cowper Powys from his brother Theodore Francis Powys. These letters appear to be in addition to those contained in AAA1/3/1 and AAA1/3/2. The letters contain mostly personal and family news, with references to the proposed publication of some of Theodore's works. One copied letter to his sister Marian Powys from Theodore, presumably included here in error, is crossed out. The folios contain some manuscript amendments/additions [?by Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir].

Photocopies of one hundred and five letters, [1883, 1902, 1906-1907, 1909, 1912, 1914-1919, 1921-1933], 1935-1936, 1938, 1941-1949, 1951, from John Cowper Powys to his brother Theodore Francis Powys, the earliest of which was written by John Cowper Powys from Sherborne School, together with a typescript copy of one letter, 1947, possibly made by Phyllis Playter (f. 317), and one letter, 1956, from John Cowper Powys to Violet Powys, widow of Theodore (ff. 340-342). A substantial portion of the letters are undated, with likely dates (and other notes) added in pencil by Morine Krissdottir. The letters contain mostly personal, professional and family news and some are illustrated with John Cowper Powys's drawings. Enclosures comprise a photocopy of a printed article containing a review of Theodore Powys's The House with the Echo (1928) and photocopies of letters to John Cowper Powys from Barnet B. Ruder and Reginald Moore. The originals of these letters are housed in Texas. The photocopies were made by Jeffrey Kwintner and given to Morine Krissdottir.

Three letters, [1935], 1938, from Phyllis Playter to John Cowper Powys's brother, Llewelyn (Lulu) Powys, which include Phyllis Playter's response to Llewelyn's work Damnable Opinions (1935). In 1938 Phyllis Playter is writing to Switzerland, where Llewelyn had removed for the sake of his health. Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir has added brief notes on ff. 1, 3.