Identity area
Reference code
NLW MSS 23500-23504C, 23505D
Title
Gilbert Turner letters to John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter
Date(s)
- 1945-1969 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
Varying from 108 to 217 ff.
Guarded and filed at NLW.
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Name of creator
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Scope and content
Some three hundred and fifty letters, 1945-1969, from Gilbert Turner to John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter, which include references to the novelist Elena Puw Morgan, Welsh language and literature, visits to North Wales, the writer's procurement of library books for the recipients and the preparation of typescript copies of Powys's Dostoievsky (1947) and Rabelais (1948). Turner continued corresponding with Phyllis Playter after John Cowper Powys's death in 1963.
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Accruals
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Arranged chronologically at NLW.
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Language of material
- English
Script of material
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English.
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Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MSS 23500-23504C, 23505D.
Alternative identifier(s)
Virtua system control number
vtls004654539
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Name access points
- Turner, Gilbert -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Morgan, Elena Puw, 1900-1973 (Subject)
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Description identifier
Institution identifier
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Language(s)
- English