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A typescript, [1920], of John Cowper Powys's posthumously published third novel After My Fashion (London, 1980), with manuscript corrections by the author. Also included is a foreword to the work by Powys's nephew, Francis Llewellyn Powys. It seems likely that no manuscript of this novel has survived, and that this is the only extant typescript. The title page bears the stamp of Powys's literary agent, G. Arnold Shaw.

Forty-nine envelopes, 1924, 1938, 1940, 1943-1946, 1949-1951, 1953-1956, 1961-1962 and indiscernible/missing date, forty-seven of which are addressed to John Cowper Powys and the remaining two to Elwyn Evans (f. 48) and Marian Powys Grey (f. 49). The correspondents include Edgar Lee Masters (6), 1944-1945, Maurice Browne (6), 1945, 1949, 1951, 1953-1954 and missing postmark, [? Francis Llewellyn Powys] (6), 1955-1956, Alyse Gregory (1), 1961, Henry Miller (1), 1962, James Hanley (1), [?1962] and Gamel Woolsey (1), indiscernible date; ff. 27-49 are from unidentified correspondents. The contents of all envelopes have been removed. These items were purchased with the letters contained in NLW MSS 23500-23504C, 23505D and should be considered as part of that collection.

Envelopes addressed to Phyllis Playter from Alyse Gregory (53, 1952-195[?3], 1956-1958, 1960-1967) (ff. 1-53), Gilbert Turner (42, 1954-1955, 1957-1958, 1960, 1963, 1969, 1976) (ff. 54-95), Littleton Charles Powys (17, 1948-1953) (ff. 96-112), [Francis Llewellyn Powys] (12, 1958-1959, 1963-1964, 1974, 1976 and indiscernible/missing postmarks) (ff. 113-122), Gerald Brenan (11, 1968) (ff. 123-133), Gamel Woolsey (1, indiscernible postmark, envelope torn in half) (f. 134), Luis José Bonito Ribeiro (1, [?1976]) (f. 135), Philippa (Katie) Powys (1, [1961]) (f. 136) and John C. Playter (1,1976) (f. 137). The contents of all the envelopes have been removed.

Papers once in the possession of Francis Llewellyn Powys, nephew of John Cowper Powys, relating to the wills of John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter and to the literary executorship, copyright, translation rights and royalies, etc. of John Cowper Powys's estate. The material includes contracts, correspondence, and notes and accounts concerning proposed publication and translation of, and performance rights, copyright and royalties relating to, the works of John Cowper Powys, Theodore Francis Powys and Philippa (Katie) Powys. The literary executorship of both John Cowper Powys and Theodore Francis Powys was in the hands of Phyllis Player until she transferred it to John Cowper Powys's nephew (and Theodore's son) Francis Llewellyn Powys by deed of gift in 1972; Francis, in turn, transferred it by deed of gift to his son John Francis Cowper Powys in 1994.

Letters to Phyllis Playter from John Cowper Powys's nephew, Francis Llewellyn Powys.

Letters to Phyllis Playter from Father J. Hamilton C. Johnson (1), 1929; Marianne Moore (1), 1929; Edgar Lee Masters (6), 1930-1932 (typescript copies); Helen Dreiser (1), 1933; Bernard O'Neill (2), 1945; Alan Denson (1), 1955; George F. Sims (1), 1956; John Redwood Anderson (7 letters and 1 postcard), 1959, 1961-1963, his wife Gwyneth Anderson (3), 1963 and undated, and from both John Redwood and Gwyneth Anderson (1), [1963] (references to the death of John Cowper Powys); Mary Truesdale (1),1960; Dorothy May Meech (1), 1960; Kenneth Hopkins (1), 1961; Ichiro Hara (6), 1962, 1964, 1974, 1979; Minoru Akiyama (1), 1962; George Steiner (1), 1962; Brocard Sewell (1), 1963, and Moray McLaren (1), 1963, regarding a proposed radio broadcast of John Cowper Powys's son Littleton Alfred Powys's poem 'Ode to the West Wind'; Angus Wilson (1 telegram), 1963 (expressing sympathy on the death of John Cowper Powys); Harold A. Van Kirk (1), 1963; G. Wilson Knight (1), 1964; Harold P. Collins (5),1965-1966; Gerald Pollinger (1), 1975 (with typescript copy of a letter from Phyllis Playter to Gerald Pollinger dated 23 October 1975) (beginning of draft letter to G[erald Pollinger] in Francis Llewellyn Powys's hand on f. 100 verso); and David Jenkins of the National Library of Wales (1), 1979; together with undated letters from Josiah Titzell (1), Gladys Ficke (1), and Fred [ ? ] of Birkenhead. Some of the letters are inscribed with notes by Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir.

Twenty-two letters and one postcard, 1951-1952, 1954-1955, 1968-1970, 1975-1976, 1978, 1980 and undated, together with what appear to be three incomplete letters, from Phyllis Playter to John Cowper Powys's nephew, Francis Llewellyn, and his wife, Sally Powys. The letters contain mainly family and other news.

Letters largely to and between various members of the Powys family, as follows: To Lucy Penny from her mother Mary Cowper Powys (5), 1911-1912, 1914; to Marian (May) Powys from her mother Mary Cowper Powys (1), [1914]; to Margaret Powys from her son Littleton Alfred Powys (1), 1926; to Gamel Woolsey from Mary (Molly) MacCarthy (1), undated, which refers to Gamel's then contentious work One Way of Love (1930) (with a note by Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir); to Gertrude Powys from [her brother Theodore Francis Powys], (3), 1941, 1946 and undated (typescript copies); to Gertrude Powys from her sister Lucy Penny (1 postcard), [1944]; to Marian Powys from 'E. R.' (1), 1947; to Peter Powys Grey from his mother Marian Powys (1), 1948; to Bernard O'Neill from Philippa (Katie) Powys (1), 1949 (photocopy); to Francis Llewellyn Powys from his cousin Littleton Alfred Powys (1 postcard), 1951; to Littleton [?Charles] Powys from an unnamed correspondent (the letter lacking a signature and appearing incomplete) (1), 1953; to George Frederick Sims from John Cowper Powys's nephew Francis Llewellyn Powys (1), 1958 (photocopy); to Alyse Gregory, widow of Llewelyn Powys, from Francis Llewellyn Powys (1), 1960; to Jill Olson from Katie Powys (1), 1961 (photocopy) (with note by Morine Krissdottir); to Lucy Penny from her sister Marian Powys (1), [1963]; to Lucy Penny from Powys biographer Marie Canavaggia (including a note to Phyllis Playter) (1), 1964; to Lucy Penny from her niece Isobel Powys Marks (1), 1966; to Lucy Penny from her niece Rose Dyer (1), 1969; to Lucy Penny from her nephew Gilfrid Powys (1), 1969; to Lucy Penny from her great-nephew Michael (2) and her great-niece Lucy (1), 1969; to Francis Llewellyn Powys from C. Benson Roberts (1), 1970; to John Cowper Powys's brother William Ernest (Willie) Powys from Agnes [ ? ] in Poland, enclosing a photograph [?from Adrian Upfield]) (1), 2002; together with undated letters to Alyse Gregory from Lucy Penny (1) and Ty (Barbara) Powys Grey (née Tyler), first wife of Peter Powys Grey (1), an undated letter to Bernard O'Neill from Lucy Penny (photocopy), and an undated postcard from Marian Powys to an unnamed recipient (on the dorse of which is a printed notice of an auction of some of Marian Powys's lacemaking stock upon her retirement). Included separately in an envelope are photographs of Marian Powys and Peter Powys Grey, [?1936], and an obituary of Gertrude Powys, [1952].