Powys Collection, 1914-1980.

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Powys Collection, 1914-1980.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31366668

Manuscripts, letters, notebooks, documents, broadsides, art works and other materials about John Cowper Powys and members of the Powys family. Correspondence includes letters from John Cowper Powys to his sister Marian and letters from John Cowper Powys to Louis Wilkinson [i.e., Louis Marlow]. Collection also includes materials by non-family members close to the Powys. Correspondents include: Marian Powys, Gertrude Powys, Katie Powys, Littleton Powys, Louis Wilkinson [i.e., Louis Marlow], Tom Hart, John Redwood Anderson, Merlin Wolcott, Alyse Gregory, E.H. Visiak, T.H. Bell, Francis Berry, Ogden Heath, Boyne Granger, Christian Hewett, Trevor Moillet, Eloise Parker, Walter Miller, Elizabeth Myers, Herbert West and Robert Blackmore.

105 cubic feet, 123 boxes

Colgate University, Everett Needham Case Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7311377

Colgate University, Everett Needham Case Library

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Holmes, Vincent

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English author. From the description of The girl who died, 1955. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122645299 ...

Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963

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English novelist, essayist, and lecturer. From the description of Letter, 1934 Dec. 12, Dorchester, England, to John P. Waters, Cambridge, Mass. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34365010 From the description of Correspondence, with Alan Dakers, 1948. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34364799 From the description of Letter, 1944 July 18, Cae Coed, Corwen, Wales, to Ada McVickar, New York. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 3436480...

Gregory, Alyse, 1884-1967

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Alyse Gregory was a British political campaigner, editor of THE DIAL, suffragette, novelist, and wife of novelist and essayist Llewelyn Powys (1884-1939). From the description of Alyse Gregory correspondence, 1944-1967. (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 83953354 Alyse Gregory, 1884-1967, social reformer and writer; managing editor of the literary magazine The Dial, 1924-1926; married to English author Llewelyn Powys and close associate of the P...

Marlow, Louis, 1881-1966

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Epithet: novelist, al 'Louis Marlow' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000349.0x0003af Louis Umfreville Wilkinson was born in 1881, the only son of a clergyman. He attended Radley School where he struck up a correspondence with Oscar Wilde, then imprisoned in Reading Goal. He attended Oxford for four semesters before being "sent down" for blasphemousness in 1901. He next went to St. John's College, C...

Powys, Gertrude M. (Gertrude Mary)

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Epithet: artist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x000213 ...

Powys, Marian, 1882-1972

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Powys, Theodore Francis, 1875-1953

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Theodore Francis Powys was the brother of Lewelyn Powys (1884-1939). From the guide to the Papers of Theodore Francis Powys, 1928, 1928, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Department of Special Collections) Theodore Francis Powys was a member of the literary Powys family. He left his farm in Suffolk at the age of twenty-six to retire to the small village of East Chaldon and write. Living like a hermit, he wrote novels, short stories, and fables. His works...

Visiak, E. H. (Edward Harold)

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Playter, Phyllis

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Powys, Littleton, 1874-1955

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Powys, Llewelyn, 1884-1939

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Llewelyn Powys (1884-1939) came from a family of distinguished British writers, and wrote a wide variety of works, including essays, a biography, a novel, travel books, works of popular philosophy and propaganda, autobiographical memoirs, and "an imaginary autobiography." Married in 1924 to Alyse Gregory, managing editor of the Dial magazine, and a well-known and well-connected New York novelist and essayist, Powys generally divided his active career between the U.S. and his beloved Dorset. He d...

Knight, George Wilson, 1897-

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G. Wilson Knight (1897-1985) was born at Sutton, Surrey, and educated at Dulwich. He served as a Despatch Rider in Mesopotamia and, after the War, in Persia. Later he became Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds. From the guide to the Wilson Knight papers, 1916-1977, (Leeds University Library) ...

Meyers, Elizabeth, 1912-1947.

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Anderson, John Redwood, 1883-1964

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English poet. From the description of The queue : autograph manuscript of the poem signed : place not specified, 1920 Jan. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132670 ...