File NLW MSS 23493-23498E, 23499D - John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter letters to Gilbert Turner

Some four hundred and fifty letters, 1942-1962, from John Cowper Powys to Gilbert Turner, mainly containing personal news and comments on the progress of his literary work, particularly the composition and revision of his novel Porius (1951), with occasional references to acquaintances such as the novelists Elena Puw Morgan, James Hanley and Henry Miller, and the poet Huw Owen Williams ('Huw Menai'); together with some two hundred letters, ?1943-1979, to Gilbert Turner from Phyllis Playter, who writes initially as Powys's amanuensis during his periods of ill health and continues the correspondence with Turner after Powys's death in 1963.