Powys, Llewelyn, 1884-1939

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Three autograph letters, signed, from Powys to Louis Wilkinson, Mrs. Louis Wilkinson, and James Vernon. Letters discuss books, literature, and personal matters. With one envelope.

Abstract: The collection consists chiefly of letters from Gregory to de Lima, concerning their friendship; Gregory's writing and her life in Dorset and Devon; her interest in the New School for Social Research; and Randolph Silliman Bourne, Sigrid de Lima, the Powys family, and other literary friends. Other letters include correspondence between Gregory and Sigrid de Lima and Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, and letters to Agnes de Lima from literary friends and publishers concerning Llewelyn Powys's...

Abstract: The papers document the life and activities of Scofield Thayer and the history of Dial Magazine under his ownership. They include the surviving Dial office files, with correspondence by Alyse Gregory, Marianne Moore, Gilbert Seldes, Kenneth Burke, and J. Sibley Watson; manuscripts, typescripts and corrected galleys of submissions to the magazine by authors including Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, George Santayana, William Butler Yeats, and Glenway Wescott; and advertising material....

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Typescript draft of Powys’s book Swiss Essays, with manuscript corrections in an unidentified hand. Draft is housed in folder with the title written in manuscript on the cover, possibly in the hand of Alyse Gregory.

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The Arthur Davison Ficke Papers document the personal lives and literary interests of Arthur Davison and Gladys Brown Ficke. Major correspondents include Witter Bynner, Floyd Dell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edgar Lee Masters, and John Cowper Powys. In addition to manuscripts of Ficke's own works, the papers contain manuscripts of poems by Witter Bynner, Edgar Lee Masters, and others.

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The collection consists chiefly of correspondence, with smaller amounts of diaries, writings, notebooks, artworks, photographs, and other personal papers. Also present are papers of others closely associated with Gregory, including papers of Llewelyn Powys; writings of John Cowper Powys and Edna St. Vincent Millay; and diaries of Gertrude Powys. Accompanying these is a small amount of correspondence and notes of Rosemary Manning, concerning Gregory's papers.

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Autograph manuscript letter, signed, discussing a sermon Leffert sent to Powys. With envelope.

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16 autograph manuscript letters, signed, discussing publishing, family matters, and poetry. Powys’s letters express love and affection for Wishart. With 12 envelopes. Also includes a photograph of Powys in Switzerland, taken by an unidentified photographer, inscribed to Wishart from Powys on verso.

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The collection consists of miscellaneous letters by John Cowper Powys.