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A copy of Y Faner, dated 27 June 1980, showing on the cover a portrait of the bust made of John Cowper Powys by Jonah Jones and including a short article on the Powys family on p. 8. There are annotations by Phyllis Playter on pp. 8 and 9.

Four notebooks and a series of disbound notebooks and loose leaves, [c. 1900]-[c. 1902], containing parts of a projected first novel by John Cowper Powys comprising substantial drafts of a romance set on the Sussex Downs; together with numerous, shorter fragments of narrative, mainly passages of prolix theological and philosophical discussion, and Rabelaisian fantasy, involving characters based on the author's friends. Also included are heavily worked drafts of unpublished poems (NLW MS 23672E, ff. 57-60 and ff. 135-137 verso, 138 verso, 139 verso-140, inverted text; NLW MS 23673E, ff. 146 recto-verso, 147 verso, 154 recto-verso, 155 verso, 156 verso-60 verso, 161 verso-162, inverted text; NLW MS 23676E, ii, ff. 250 verso-251, 253 verso-255, 259 verso, 260 verso, 261-262 verso, 263 verso, 264 verso-265 verso, 266 verso, 267 verso-268 verso, 269 verso, 270 verso, inverted text); and notes on Shakespeare's The Tempest, Macbeth, Richard III and The Taming of the Shrew (NLW MS 23673E, ff. 148-153 verso, inverted text), possibly for use in Powys's lecturing work.

Autograph manuscript of Wolf Solent (New York and London, 1929), containing extensive revision and differing somewhat from the novel as published, a number of cuts having been made at a later stage (NLW MSS 22373-6D); together with partially-corrected galley proofs of the first American edition of Wolf Solent (New York, 1929) (NLW MS 22377D).

Unpublished manuscript and typescript poems (one photocopied), most in draft form, by John Cowper Powys, including 'The Dream of Rhonabwy' (ff. 1-6) (apparently incomplete). One of the poems is written on the back of a letter (inverted text) from Miriam Louch to Mr [?Irask] (ff. 7-8). F. 62 bears a (much later) dedication to Alyse Gregory in John Cowper Powys's hand.

Unpublished poems by John Cowper Powys, all but one (typescript) of which are in manuscript, some in draft form. Attached (f. 1) is a note in Phyllis Playter's hand regarding date of production.

Typescript poems, some dated, by John Cowper Powys, several of which are addressed to Phyllis Playter and one (f. 15) to Powys's son Littleton Alfred Powys.

A typescript copy, [c. 1960], with editor's corrections, of John Cowper Powys's novella Two and Two (1974), written in 1959.

Revised autograph draft, [c. 1960], of John Cowper Powys's fantastic story 'Topsy-Turvy', begun towards the end of 1959 and published in Three Fantasies (1985).

Ten letters, 1935-1938, to John Cowper Powys from his brother, Theodore Francis Powys, containing mainly personal and family matters, including the health of their brother, Llewelyn ('Lulu'), discussions of reading matter and Theodore's reaction to the abdication of Edward VIII (f. 7).

A manuscript draft of John Cowper Powys's story 'The owl, the duck, and "Miss Rowe! Miss Rowe!"' (Chicago, 1930), which differs from the published version. Ff. 32-35, also in manuscript draft form, are in the hand of Phyllis Playter.

An exercise book containing two chapters of an early story by John Cowper Powys entitled 'The Lost Chord'. The story is a historical romance, apparently written during Powys's school years. F. 1 is illustrated with ink drawings by Powys of two profiled heads.

An incomplete prose tale by John Cowper Powys entitled 'The Knight of the Festoon'; set in medieval Wales, the work was written in 1883, when the author was eleven years old.

A sewn booklet containing a manuscript story by John Cowper Powys entitled 'The astonishing adventures of a Zulu a Welshman and an English Sailor (continued)'. The text is a continuation of a story now held, in manuscript, in the Powys Collection at Dorset County Museum, and published in The Powys Society Newsletter, 52 (July 2004), pp. 17-20. The story was apparently composed by Powys at the age of 9. The text is illustrated with an ink drawing by Powys on f. 3. Ff. 5-14 verso blank.

A typescript copy of an unfinished study by John Cowper Powys of Aristophanes' play The Acharnians, together with an envelope, in which the typescript was originally kept, bearing a note on the contents in the hand of Phyllis Playter. The manuscript of the work is in the Powys Collection at Dorset County Museum. The text was published in 1984.

Photocopies of typescript notes, with (photocopied) annotations, on the writers William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Lamb and Sir Walter Scott by John Cowper Powys. Originally foliated: 2-10, 2-11, 2-10, 2-11, 2-10, 2-10.

Manuscript drafts of stories by John Cowper Powys, including juvenilia which Powys composed while a pupil at Sherborne Preparatory School.

A typescript copy, [c. 1960], with editor's corrections, of John Cowper Powys's novella Real Wraiths (1974), written in 1959.

Correspondence and other papers, 1962, 1967-[1990], relating to the publication, disposal and literary copyright of the works and manuscripts of John Cowper Powys, with one letter (f. 4) relating to the disposal of Theodore Francis Powys letters. The material includes forty-six letters (some of which are photocopies), 1980-1990, to Francis Llewellyn Powys from Bertram Rota Ltd, booksellers, London, together with three letters, 1984, and two undated drafts to Anthony Rota from Francis Llewellyn Powys; eight letters, 1972-1973, to Phyllis Playter from Michelmores, solicitors, Exeter and four letters, 1972, 1974, to Phyllis Playter from Wilfred T. Fry Ltd, taxation consultants, Exeter relating to the transfer of John Cowper Powys's literary copyright from Phyllis Playter to Francis Llewellyn Powys; three notebooks, [1980s-1990s], of Francis Llewellyn Powys containing draft letters, some of which are addressed to Gerald Pollinger of Laurence Pollinger Ltd, literary agents, London; a list of books in Alyse Gregory's library; etc.

Papers, 1985-1993, 1998, relating to the publication and translation of the works of John Cowper Powys and Theodore Francis Powys comprising mainly contracts and agreements (some photocopied), mostly between Francis Llewellyn Powys and Laurence Pollinger Ltd, literary agents, London.

Papers, 1953, 1967, 1970-1974, relating to the publication and translation of the works of John Cowper Powys and comprising mainly of contracts and agreements mostly between Francis Llewellyn Powys and Laurence Pollinger Ltd, literary agents, London.