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- 1919-1963 (Creation)
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64 ff. (12 envelopes in 1 folder)
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Scope and content
Letters to John Cowper Powys arranged alphabetically, S-W. The correspondents are as follows: Elisabeth Schoen (3), 1957-1958, 1962 (with enclosed printed piece (in French) relating to the French translation of John Cowper Powys's Autobiography (1934)); Enid Mary Starkie (1), 1956; B. T. W. Stevenson (1), 1957; Martha Sweeney (1), 1928; Gilbert Turner (1 postcard), 1945; Bridie Wall, cousin of Gerard Casey, husband of John Cowper Powys's niece Mary Casey (1), undated (photocopy) (annotated by John Cowper Powys); Theresa Whistler (1), 1959; Louis Wilkinson (2 telegrams), 1919; Dora Williams (10), 1939, 1941, 1943-1944; Huw Menai Williams (2), 1951, 1958 and Anne, his wife (1), 1962 (together with a press cutting, 1951, relating to a luncheon held in Huw Menai's honour, and a printed flyer advertising an edition of the periodical Wales in which an article by Huw Menai appeared); Angus Wilson (3), 1956, 1962-1963; and Gamel Woolsey (2), 1951 (containing her response to John Cowper Powys's novel Porius (1951), 1952 (reference to the death of John Cowper Powys's sister Gertrude Powys).
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Accruals
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Arranged alphabetically.
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Usual copyright laws apply.
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English, French.
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- Powys, Gertrude M. (Gertrude Mary) -- Death and burial (Subject)
- Starkie, Enid Mary, d. 1970 (Subject)
- Whistler, Theresa (Subject)
- Menai, Huw, 1886-1961 (Subject)
- Wilson, Angus, 1913- (Subject)
- Woolsey, Gamel (Subject)
- Wilkinson, Louis, 1881-1966 (Subject)
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Archivist's note
Description compiled by Geraint Phillips and Bethan Ifan.