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Llewelyn Powys Llewelyn Powys: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center Descriptive Summary Creator: Powys, Llewelyn, 1884-1939 Title: Llewelyn Powys Collection Dates: 1895-1972, undated Extent: 34 boxes (14.28 linear feet), 5 galley folders (gf) Abstract: Includes manuscripts of writings and letters of the British novelist and essayist Llewelyn Powys, as well some of his personal, financial, and legal records. Many items were transcribed by his wife, the writer Alyse Gregory, and a number of her own manuscripts and letters are also present. Among the couple's correspondents are Gerald Brenan, Van Wyck Brooks, Theodore Dreiser, Ethel Mannin, Havelock Ellis, Naomi Mitchison, Clifford Musgrave, many Powys family members, Rose Rosamond, Marie Stopes, Gamel Woolsey, and many others. Call Number: Manuscript Collection MS-3322 Language: English and French Access: Open for research Administrative Information Processed by: Joan Sibley and Apryl Voskamp, 2014 Note: This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions. Repository: The University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center Powys, Llewelyn, 1884-1939 Manuscript Collection MS-3322 2 Powys, Llewelyn, 1884-1939 Manuscript Collection MS-3322 Works: Unidentified: Article on wreck of the Abergavenny, handwritten manuscript/ incomplete, 10 Container pages, undated. Lacking first page. 1.1 Fragments, typescript/ fragments with handwritten revisions, 2 pages, undated. Fragments, eight handwritten, typed, and carbon copy manuscripts/ fragments, 1 page each, most undated. Some are copies by Alyse Gregory dated 1953. Works, handwritten manuscript/ fragments, 3 pages, undated. Untitled: African novel, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 55 pages written in 1915 Container desk diary, undated. 1.2 African novel, handwritten manuscript/ unfinished with revisions, 131 pages in 3 Container notebooks, 1919. 1.3 Container African stories, handwritten manuscript, 64 pages in notebook, undated. 1.4 Accounts of African experiences, handwritten manuscript, 37 pages in notebook, undated. African story, handwritten manuscript/ unfinished, 21 pages in notebook, undated. Essay, typescript/ copy, 3 pages, undated. Container 1.5 Essay, typescript/ copy by Alyse Gregory, 3 pages, 1953. Essay, carbon typescript/ copy, 9 pages, undated. Essay, typescript/ copy by Alyse Gregory/ incomplete, 3 pages, 1953. Essay on Dorset language, typescript/ copy, 6 pages, undated. Essay on prehistoric Dorset, typescript/ unfinished/ copy, 13 pages, circa 1932. Essay on the city Tiberius, typescript/ copy by Alyse Gregory, 3 pages, 1953. Essay on Winston Churchill, typescript/ copy, 3 pages; carbon typescript/ copy by Alyse Gregory, 3 pages; 1953. 3 Powys, Llewelyn, 1884-1939 Manuscript Collection MS-3322 Paragraph, typescript/ copy by Alyse Gregory, 1 page, 1953. Container Personal narrative, typescript/ copy by Alyse Gregory, 5 pages, 1953. 1.4 Container Poem drafts, handwritten manuscript/ drafts with revisions, 14 pages, undated. 1.6 On Dorset Downs…, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 1 page, undated. Social credit article: rejected end, handwritten manuscript/ incomplete, 2 pages, Container undated. 1.4 Story, typescript/ copy by Alyse Gregory, 10 pages, 1953. Story, typescript/ copy, 8 pages; carbon typescript/ copy, 8 pages; 1953. Copies by Alyse Gregory. Unfinished essay, typescript/ copy by Alyse Gregory, 1 page, 1953. Unfinished story, typescript/ copy, 1 page, undated. Unfinished story, typescript/ copy, 2 pages; carbon typescript, 2 pages; 1953. Copies by Alyse Gregory. Accidental reflections, typescript, 3 pages, 1939. Container 1.7 The adult school, typescript/ incomplete, 2 pages, undated. Advertisement for Life and death, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 1 page, undated. The Aebi wood, typescript/ unfinished, 2 pages; carbon typescript/ unfinished, 2 pages; undated. African animals of forest and veldt, typescript/ copy, 6 pages; carbon typescript/ copy/ incomplete, 3 pages; 1953. Copies by Alyse Gregory. Container gf African birds, typescript, 9 pages; galley proofs, 3 pages; undated. 1 African buck, typescript/ copy, 6 pages; carbon typescript/ copy, 6 pages; undated. Container Copies by Alyse Gregory. 1.7 An African bush-fire, initialed handwritten manuscript with heavy revisions and Container note, 18 pages, undated. From Hanley II. 1.8 Container An African bush fire, typescript with handwritten revisions, 11 pages, undated. 1.7 4 Powys, Llewelyn, 1884-1939 Manuscript Collection MS-3322 African journal, carbon typescript/ copy, 5 pages, 1914-1918. African moods, typescript/ copy, 2 pages, 1917. African resolutions, handwritten manuscript with emendations, 1 page, undated. The African rhinoceros, typescript/ copy, 6 pages, undated. African segments, typescript/ copies by Alyse Gregory, 40 pages, 1953. Copied from Notebook I, 1914-1918. African snakes, typescript/ copy, 6 pages; carbon typescript/ copy, 6 pages; undated. Copies by Alyse Gregory. After Dancing Dale, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 2 pages, undated. Aldous Huxley, typescript, 6 pages, circa 1928. An appreciation of W. H. Hudson, typescript/ copy, 4 pages, circa 1928. Included with this: AN by Alyse Gregory. April the first, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 6 pages; carbon typescript with handwritten revisions, 5 pages; undated. At the unveiling of the memorial statue of Thomas Hardy, O. M., September 2, 1931, typescript/ copy, 8 pages, circa 1931. Athelney, signed handwritten manuscript with revisions, 12 pages, April 1936. August bank holiday, signed handwritten manuscript with revisions, 8 pages, undated. Baruch Spinoza, typescript, 7 pages, circa 1926. Container 2.1 Biographical sketch, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 3 pages; typescript, 2 pages; undated. Birds of a winter garden, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 18 pages in Container notebook, undated. From Hanley II. 2.2 Birds of a winter garden, typescript with handwritten emendations, 10 pages, Container undated. 2.1 Black laughter, handwritten manuscript with revisions, approximately 300 pages in Container 6 notebooks, undated. From Hanley II. 2.3-4 Container A blackamore! A blackamore!, typescript/ copy by Alyse Gregory, 3 pages, 1953. 2.1 5 Powys, Llewelyn, 1884-1939 Manuscript Collection MS-3322 The blessings of longevity, typescript, 6 pages, undated. Bon espoir y gist an fond, typescript with handwritten emendations, 6 pages, undated. Bull's feathers, carbon typescript, 9 pages, undated. Burton Pynsent, signed handwritten manuscript with revisions, 12 pages, 18 July 1936. By the elephant's skull, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 15 pages in notebook, undated. Cadbury camp, signed handwritten manuscript with revisions, 15 pages, undated. Capri grave, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 1 page, undated. Chainey Bottom, typescript/ copy by Alyse Gregory, 3 pages, 1953. Charles Culliford Goodden Vicar of Montacute, 1845-1885, carbon typescript/ copy, 4 pages, undated. The Chesil Beach, typescript/ copy, 5 pages, undated. A Christmas card, signed handwritten manuscript with emendations, 1 page, November 1938. Christmas children in Dorset, typescript with emendations, 5 pages, 1939. Christmas foods, typescript with handwritten emendations, 8 pages; carbon typescript, 7 pages; undated. The Christmas spirit, typescript, 4 pages; carbon typescript, 4 pages; undated. A circus within a circus, typescript, 5 pages, undated. The confession, typescript/ copy, 3 pages, undated. Consumption, typescript, 4 pages, undated. A consumptive's diary, typescript, 5 pages, undated. The continent of dreadful night, signed handwritten manuscript/ incomplete with revisions, 80 pages in notebook, undated. Conversations with Theodore, carbon typescript/ copy, 10 pages, 1931. From notebook kept by Llewelyn. 6 Powys, Llewelyn, 1884-1939 Manuscript Collection MS-3322 Corn, handwritten manuscript/ unfinished, 5 pages, undated. With added AN on last Container page. 3.1 Corn, typescript/ fragment/ copy, 2 pages; carbon typescript/ fragment/ copy, 2 Container pages; 1953. Copies by Alyse Gregory. 2.1 Coston Downs, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 3 pages, undated. The craft of happiness, handwritten and carbon typed manuscript/ incomplete with handwritten revisions, 7 pages; typescript, 7 pages; undated. The dawn, typescript, 8 pages, undated. Container 3.2 Dawn in autumn, typescript/ unfinished/ copy by Alyse Gregory, 2 pages; typescript/ unfinished/ copy, 2 pages; 1953. Death bed reflections, handwritten manuscript with revisions, 2 pages, undated. Deity in a cur, typescript/ copy by Alyse Gregory, 6 pages, 1953. Delights of Somerset mills, typescript, 5 pages, undated. The Devil's horn book, typescript/ unfinished/ copy, 5 pages; carbon typescript/ unfinished/ copy, 5 pages; 1935. Copies by Alyse Gregory, 1953. Diaries: Section, typescript/ copy, 2 pages, undated. Container 3.2 Section, carbon typescript/ copy/ incomplete, 2 pages, undated. Miscellaneous pages, typed and carbon manuscript/ copies, 7 pages, 1908-1911 (copied 1953). Diary: Container Undated, handwritten manuscript, 41 pages in notebook. Contains reading notes. 3.3 Undated, handwritten manuscript, 136 pages in notebook. Diary as tutor; also Container contains materials used in Confessions of two brothers and copies of letters. 3.4 Container 1903, signed handwritten
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