Powys, John Cowper, (1872-1963), novelist and writer

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Surname:	Powys
Forenames:	John Cowper
Gender:	Male
Date:	1872-1963
Biography:	ODNB link for Powys, John Cowper (1872-1963), novelist and writer
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P128213 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P23345 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	literary papers	Colgate University Library	Powys Family Collection
2	literary papers	Huntington Library		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
3	corresp and papers	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services		See Annual Reports 1981-82 p63, 1982-83 p47, 1983-84 p45, 51, 1987-88 p62, 1990-91 p63; Bloomsbury 24.6.
4	corresp and literary MSS (150 items)	Syracuse University Libraries		See NUC MS 61-913
5	c1930-63: misc literary papers	Cambridge University: Churchill Archives Centre	JCPS	NRA 44313
6	1872-1963: letters to his mother and sisters Gertrude and Philippa and MS essays	University of Texas at Austin: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Library	John Cowper Powys
7	1899-1908: lecturer's reports	Oxford University Archives	DES/R/3/28-34, 37-38	See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
8	1937-55: family corresp	University of Calgary Library		See Union list of MSS in Canadian repositories, suppl 1977-78
9	1929-59: family papers	University of Connecticut Library		See NUC MS 92-2190
10	1930-61: diaries (36 vols)	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	NLW MSS 22206-41B
11	1935-62: letters (38) to Cyril Clemens and literary MSS (3)	Columbia University Libraries: Rare Book and Manuscript Library		See NUC MS 78-710
12	1956-61: letters (22) to Jessie Cormack	Leeds University Library, Special Collections		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
13	1957-61: letters to Marjorie L Gay	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services		See Annual Report 1980-81 p63
14	letters (68) to Ichiro Hara	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	MS Add.8636	See Accessions to Repositories 1987
15	20th cent: letters to John and Lucy Horstmann	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	MS Add. 9736	See Annual Return 2006
16	corresp with Gwyn Jones	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	Gwyn Jones Papers	NRA 37541
17	1937-62: letters to G Wilson Knight	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng lett d 460	See Annual Report 1979-80 p20
18	1958-61: letters (33) to Susanne Lane	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services		See Annual Report 1987-88 p62
19	letters (51) to Margaret Moon	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	NLW MS 23862D	See Annual Return 2001
20	1937-55: letters (51) to IC Peate	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services		See Annual Report 1979-80 p57
21	1921-31: letters (800) to Phyllis Plater	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services		See Annual Report 1984-85 p40
22	1944-64: letters (120) to Laurence Pollinger, copy letters from Pollinger	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	NLW MSS 23088D, 23089-90E	See Annual Return 1993
23	letters to Harlan and Jane McIntosh	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	NLW MS 23901	See Accessions return 2003
24	1937-53: letters (54) to Evan Roberts	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services		See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
25	1932-58: letters (c80) to Lloyd Emerson Siberell	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services		See Annual Report 1986-87 p64
26	1945-61: letters to Marjorie Tilden	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services		See Annual Report 1980-81 p63
27	1958-62: letters (10) to Margaret Thorpe	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	MS 21115C	See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
28	1934-53: letters to Vera Wainwright	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 54330
29	1953-1954: letters (100) to Dinah White, nurse to his son Littleton Alfred Powys during the latter's terminal illness, with related family corresp	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	NLW MSS 24060-24063	See Annual Return 2014
30	1924-63: letters (65)	University of Michigan Library: Special Collections Research Center		See NUC MS 78-532
31	1956-61: letters (22)	Leeds University Library, Special Collections		See Annual Report 1977-78
32	papers rel to	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	NLW MSS 23193-7	See Annual Return 1994
33	papers rel to writer	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services		See Annual Return 2006
34	1951-1953: letters (26) some in the hand of Powys and others dictated to Phyllis Playter, to Ron Hall	National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services	NLW MS 24004
35	1890-1950: papers rel to Powys and his family collected by the Powys Society	University of Exeter Library (Special Collections)	MS 433	See Annual Return 2014
36	1954-1976: corresp	University of Exeter Library (Special Collections)	MS 433
37	c1916-1963: letters to James Abell, covering Abell's writing, Powys' issues with hypochondria and agoraphobia, 'Weymouth Sands', 'Glastonbury Romance', 'Wolf Solent', 'A Philosophy of Solitude', and general discussions on writing and original thought	University of Exeter Library (Special Collections)	EUL MS 486	See Annual Return 2023