National Library of Wales Archives and Manuscripts

Family material

ADD3/3
Sub-series
1796-1947

Part of John Cowper Powys Manuscripts and Papers

Miscellaneous items of or relating to family members of Mary Cowper Powys, including photographs and estate papers.

Correspondence

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Sub-series
1869-1914

Part of John Cowper Powys Manuscripts and Papers

Letters to Mary Cowper Powys from members of her family, including her parents, children and grandchildren.

Letters to Theodore Francis Powys (photocopies)

AAB1/1
Sub-series
1883-1956

Part of John Cowper Powys Manuscripts and Papers

Photocopies of letters from John Cowper Powys to his brother Theodore Francis Powys.

Powys, Theodore Francis, 1875-1953

Letters to Huw Menai (photocopies)

AAB2/1
Sub-series
1938-1954

Part of John Cowper Powys Manuscripts and Papers

Photocopies and transcripts of letters from John Cowper Powys to the poet Huw Menai (Huw Owen Williams), together with four manuscript poems by Huw Menai (kept in envelope with 1948-1954 letters).

Menai, Huw, 1886-1961

Letters from Theodore Francis Powys (photocopies, copies and transcripts)

AAA1/3
Sub-series
1914-1952

Part of John Cowper Powys Manuscripts and Papers

Photocopies, transcripts and typed copies of letters to John Cowper Powys from his brother Theodore Francis Powys.

Letters from John Redwood Anderson

AAA2/1
Sub-series
1928-1963

Part of John Cowper Powys Manuscripts and Papers

Letters to John Cowper Powys from the poet John Redwood Anderson. Many of the letters contain Anderson's comments on drafts of John Cowper Powys's novel Homer and the Aether (1959).

Anderson, John Redwood, 1883-1964

Letters from E. H. Visiak

AAA2/2
Sub-series
1943-1953

Part of John Cowper Powys Manuscripts and Papers

Letters to John Cowper Powys from the Milton scholar and fantasy writer E. H. Visiak (Edward Harold Physick).

Letters from various correspondents (alphabetical)

AAA2/5
Sub-series
1918-1964

Part of John Cowper Powys Manuscripts and Papers

Letters to John Cowper Powys from various friends and acquaintances, including Ichiro Hara, Huw Menai Williams, Angus Wilson and Gamel Woolsey.

Envelopes addressed to Gilbert Turner and others

AAB2/3
Sub-series
1938-1962

Part of John Cowper Powys Manuscripts and Papers

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.

Francis Llewellyn Powys notebooks

AC1/4
Sub-series
[1970x1998]

Part of John Cowper Powys Manuscripts and Papers

Notebooks of Francis Llewellyn Powys containing material mostly relating to the proposed publication of John Cowper Powys's letters and diaries.

Letters from John Cowper Powys

AE1/1
Sub-series
[1921]-1957

Part of John Cowper Powys Manuscripts and Papers

Letters and telegrams to Phyllis Playter from her partner, John Cowper Powys.

Letters from friends and acquaintances

AE1/4
Sub-series
1929-1980

Part of John Cowper Powys Manuscripts and Papers

Letters to Phyllis Playter from friends and acquaintances, including Gamel Woolsey, Marie Canavaggia, Michel Gresset and Gilbert Turner.

Diaries

AE4/1
Sub-series
1930-1978

Part of John Cowper Powys Manuscripts and Papers

Diaries of Phyllis Playter containing memoranda and various inserts, including press cuttings, address labels, photographs and preserved dried plants.

Letters from Lucy Penny

AAA1/2
Sub-series
1923-1963

Part of John Cowper Powys Manuscripts and Papers

Letters, 1923-1963, to John Cowper Powys from his sister, Lucy Penny, containing mostly family news, together with some enclosed letters from other family members.

Letters from Marian Powys

AAA1/7
Sub-series
[?1916]-1960

Part of John Cowper Powys Manuscripts and Papers

Letters to John Cowper Powys from his sister Marian Powys.

Letters from other family members

AAA1/8
Sub-series
1911-1960

Part of John Cowper Powys Manuscripts and Papers

Letters to John Cowper Powys from his wife Margaret Alice Powys, his brothers Llewelyn, Bertie and Will Powys, his sisters-in-law Alyse Gregory and Faith Powys, his companion Phyllis Playter, his nephew Peter Powys Grey and various cousins.

Letters from Eric Harvey

AAA3/2
Sub-series
1951-1962

Part of John Cowper Powys Manuscripts and Papers

Letters to John Cowper Powys from Eric Harvey of Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, London, containing both professional correspondence and personal news.

Letters to Littleton Alfred Powys