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Letters to Phyllis Playter from members of her family, from Powys family members, and from various friends and acquaintances, together with correspondence relating to the will and estate of Alyse Gregory.

Twenty-two letters, 1945, 1947-1949, 1954, 1959 and undated, from John Cowper Powys to his nephew Peter Powys Grey, son of John Cowper Powys's sister Marian Powys. The letters contain mostly personal philosophical reflections and observations on reading material, with references also to Peter's wedding to Barbara Tyler ('Ty') in 1948 and to John Cowper Powys's forthcoming novel The Brazen Head (published 1956) (f. 56 verso). One letter is illustrated with an ink drawing by John Cowper Powys (f. 51).

Letters to John Cowper Powys's sister Lucy Penny and sister-in-law Alyse Gregory, widow of Llewelyn Powys, from various friends and acquaintances; and miscellaneous Powys family letters.

Letters from Phyllis Playter to Reginald [?Pole], (1), [1933]; Ferner Nuhn and Ruth Suckow (7), 1934-1935, 1952, 1964 (photocopies); Huw Owen Williams (Huw Menai) and his wife Anne, (1), 1945 (photocopy); Rosemary Manning (draft letters), 1972; Harold A. Van Kirk, (1), 1974; and unknown recipients (incomplete letters, one of which (ff. 53-54 verso, 55 verso) includes notes by Marian Powys). Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir has added dates to some of the letters and there is a note in her hand attached to f. 1.

Letters from John Cowper Powys to his brother Llewelyn Powys, his sister-in-law Alyse Gregory, Sally Powys, wife of John Cowper Powys's nephew Francis Llewellyn Powys, and Herbert Henry Marks, husband of John Cowper Powys's niece Isobel Powys Marks.

Two letters, undated, to Minnie H. Playter from Jane [?Keany] and from Stella Creamer, and a letter, undated, from Franklin Playter to 'Frank'.

Four letters, 1929, [1932], from John Cowper Powys to Phyllis Playter's mother Minnie H. Playter, with one letter addressed to Minnie Playter and Phyllis Playter. The letters include references to the death of Toby [?a dog or cat], the acquisition of British rights to the publication of Powys's novel A Glastonbury Romance (1933), and mention of "my little Philosopy Book", possibly A Philosophy of Solitude, published in 1933. F. 2-verso is in Phyllis Playter's hand. The envelopes and all but one letter are annotated by Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir.

Letters from John Cowper Powys to his sister Marian Powys and to his nephew, Peter Powys Grey, Marian's son.

Four letters, 1920, 1937, 1940, 1945, from John Cowper Powys to his sister Marian Powys, containing mainly personal and family news, with a reference to the progress of "my Dark Ages romance" (f. 15 verso) (the novel Porius, published 1951). The letter dated 1940 was returned, with an explanatory note attached, by the censor: an ink drawing on the last page (f. 8 verso) depicting John Cowper Powys shooting at a German parachutist cannot have been well-received (see also 'Letters to Huw Menai from John Cowper Powys' (1940)).

Letters, 1965-1970, to John Cowper Powys's sister Lucy Penny from Marie Canavaggia (2), 1965, 1968; Renée Canavaggia (2), 1965, 1970; Glen Cavaliero (3), 1967-1969; Alan Parkes (1), 1968; Dinah White, close friend of John Cowper Powys's son Littleton Alfred Powys (1), 1968; Tom Davies of Hamilton, N.Y. (1), 1970 (with a note by L[ucy] A[melia] P[enny]); Peggy Newman (1), 1970; and Rosemary Manning (1), 1970.

Letters from John Cowper Powys to his brother Llewelyn Powys (1), 1929, his sister-in-law Alyse Gregory, widow of Llewelyn (1), 1954, and Sally Powys, wife of John Cowper Powys's nephew Francis Llewellyn Powys (1), 1955. The letter to Llewelyn Powys contains a detailed account of John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter's Hillsdale home known as Phudd Bottom, while the letter to Sally Powys refers to Francis Powys's recent stay in hospital and is illustrated with ink drawings by John Cowper Powys (f. 11-verso).

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.

Photocopies of one hundred and eighty-four letters (one partial and undated), [1901-1902, 1904-1905, 1909-1914, 1916-1918, 1921-1923, 1926-1938, 1940], most of which lack an exact date, together with one holograph letter, [?1940], from John Cowper Powys to his brother Littleton Charles Powys, containing mostly personal and family news, including the birth of John Cowper Powys's son Littleton Alfred in 1902 and Littleton Charles's proposed marriage in 1904. Although John Cowper Powys refers to his move to Patchin Place and subsequently to Phudd Bottom, Phyllis Playter is conspicuous by the absence of any reference to her until 1934, just prior to their departure for England. There are occasional ink drawings by John Cowper Powys, including caricatures of himself, his father and his infant son (f. 522) and an epitaph for his dog, known as The Very Old (f. 546).

Photocopies of forty-one letters (one of which is partial), 1944, from John Cowper Powys to his brother Littleton Charles Powys, containing mostly personal news and reflections. Some of the letters are illustrated with John Cowper Powys's ink drawings, which include self-caricatures. One letter is addressed to Littleton's wife Elizabeth (née Myers).

Photocopies of one hundred and thirteen letters and three postcards, 1945-1949, from John Cowper Powys to his brother Littleton Charles Powys, containing mostly personal news and reflections, together with photocopies of partial/incomplete undated letters from John Cowper Powys to Littleton, which are kept in a separate folder within the box. Some of the letters are illustrated with John Cowper Powys's ink drawings, which include self-caricatures. There are references to "the 499 AD novel" (which would become Porius (1951)) and to the deaths of John Cowper Powys's wife Margaret and Littleton's second wife Elizabeth Myers, both in 1947.

Photocopies of partial and undated letters, some with very faint text, from John Cowper Powys to his brother Littleton Charles Powys, containing mostly personal news and reflections. There are references to some of John Cowper Powys's works eg Wolf Solent (1929), Rabelais (1948) and Porius (1951), to Dinah White's role as amenuensis for John Cowper Powys's son Littleton Alfred at the end of the latter's life, and to the deaths of the writer Virginia Woolf in 1941 and of the American poet Edgar Lee Masters in 1950. Some of the letters are illustrated with John Cowper Powys's ink drawings, which include self-caricatures and representations of plants.

Photocopies of one hundred and three letters - four of which are partial and undated, others with very faint text (occasionally clarified in Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir's hand) - from John Cowper Powys to his brother Littleton Charles Powys, containing mostly personal news and reflections, together with one telegram, 1943, addressed to [presumably Elizabeth] Myers, Littleton's second wife. Some of the letters are illustrated with John Cowper Powys's ink drawings, which include self-caricatures.

Photocopies of one hundred and thirty letters (including one partial letter), 1953-1955, from John Cowper Powys to his brother Littleton Charles Powys, containing mostly personal news and reflections. There are references to John Cowper Powys's novels Atlantis (1954) and The Brazen Head ("my Roger Bacon book") (1956), and to his plans to move to Blaenau Ffestiniog (with subsequent descriptions of 1 Waterloo), as well as mention of Littleton's health, the health of John's son Littleton Alfred and of Phyllis Playter's mother Minnie, and the last illness and death of John and Littleton's brother Theodore Francis Powys in 1953. Some of the letters are illustrated with John Cowper Powys's ink drawings, which include self-caricatures and representations of plants. Enclosed with one letter is a photocopy of a poem by Marjorie [?Yilden] entitled 'Need' (f. 273).

Photocopies of letters from John Cowper Powys to his brother Littleton Charles Powys. The original letters are in the Powys Collection in Dorset County Museum. The photocopies were made by Jeffrey Kwintner of the Village Press.

Photocopies of one hundred and twenty-five letters, including two partial (dated) letters and three letters without exact date, two typescript copies, and two postcards, 1950-1952, from John Cowper Powys to his brother Littleton Charles Powys, containing mostly personal news and reflections, with references to the publication of John Cowper Powys's novels Porius (1951) and The Inmates (1952). Some of the letters are illustrated with John Cowper Powys's ink drawings, which include self-caricatures. Also included is a photocopy of an enclosed letter to Littleton Charles Powys from his cousin Katharine, dictated to [? her daughter] Mary (f. 349).