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- 1953-1956 (Creation)
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33 ff.
Placed in melinex sleeves within ringed box at NLW.
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Phyllis Playter was born in 1894 in Kansas City, Missouri, to Canadian-American parents. She first met John Cowper Powys in March 1921 during a lecture tour of the United States and subsequently became Powys's long-term companion from 1923 until his death forty years later. Herself a gifted writer and poet, Playter's own career was largely subsumed in that of Powys's, upon whose work she nevertheless exerted significant influence. In his letters and diaries Powys commonly refers to Playter as 'the T.T.' (the 'Tiny Thin' or 'The Tao'). Following Powys's death in 1963, Playter continued to live in their last home at 1 Waterloo, Blaenau Ffestiniog, until her own death in 1982.
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Twenty-three letters and postcards, 1953-1956, to Dinah White from various correspondents, including Eric Harvey, 20 February 1954 (f. 6), Phyllis Playter, June 1954-December 1955 (ff. 15, 24), Lucy Amelia Penny, June-September 1955 (ff. 18-19, 23), and Michael Hanbury, January 1956 (ff. 25-26). The letters mainly concern the illness and death of Father Littleton Alfred Powys (ff. 1-14) and the hospitalisation and death of Littleton Charles Powys (ff. 19-23). There are also letters, photographs and an obituary relating to the late monastic founder Dom Aelred Carlyle (ff. 25-30).
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Arranged chronologically at NLW.
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- English
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English
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 24062E.
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- Powys, Littleton, 1874-1955 -- Health (Subject)
- Carlyle, Aelred, 1874-1955 -- Photographs (Subject)
- Carlyle, Aelred, 1874-1955 -- Death and burial (Subject)
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