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Join the Society Newsletter Journal Publication List Publishing News Write a review Contact the Society The Powys Collection Catalogue					John Cowper Powys T. F. Powys Llewelyn Powys The Powys Family Powys Friends Powys titles currently in print This website is © The Powys Society 2008. Permission must be asked before using any material from this site.
	Introduction A Resource for both Private and Public Research The Powys Society has long had an important role in the field of literary scholarship; and this area of the site is primarily intended as a resource for those both within and without the Society who are actively engaged in private or public research. Here you will find information about the Powys Society Collection (on semi-permanent loan to the Dorset County Museum in Dorchester), and other items of interest.
	The Powys Collection An Archive of Powys Family Material and Information The Powys Society Collection and Archive was established in 1992 to provide a focus for scholarship into the Powys Family, particularly John Cowper Powys (1872-1963), Theodore Francis Powys (1875-1953) and Llewelyn Powys(1884-1939) and their immediate circle of friends. The Collection is housed in its own room at the Dorset County Museum in Dorchester, England, and is accessible to all with an interest in the Powys Family, their work and achievements by application to the Director, Judy Lindsay. Standard archive access arrangements apply. The core of the Collection consists of major bequests by Mr E E Bissell and Mr Francis Feather, who have bequeathed their very important collections of Powys books and manuscripts to the Society in perpetuity. Other gifts and bequests continue to extend and enrich the material available. A large number of manuscripts, typescripts, paintings, photographs, wood engravings and memorabilia relating to the Powys Family and their activities are included in the archive. A sample of these is always on display in the Writers Gallery at the Museum. The Collection also includes an important corpus of Powys family letters, as well as correspondence with their wide circle of friends, including the writers Sylvia Townsend Warner, Huw Menai, Louis Wilkinson, Henry Miller and Elizabeth Myers. As details of the Collection are passed on to us, we are including them on the Catalogue page. Our first accession in this respect is a description of the John Cowper Powys, Theodore Powys and Llewelyn Powys Manuscripts kindly prepared and supplied to us by Dr. Morine Krissdottir. View the catalogue of The Powys Society Collection here. For further information or to view the Collection in situ, please contact Judy Lindsay, Director, Dorset County Museum, High West Street, Dorchester DT1 1XA United Kingdom Tel: 01305 756821 Fax: 01305 257180
	or by email to judy@dor-mus.demon.co.uk giving at least two weeks' notice of any proposed visit so that the necessary arrangements can be made.





Descents of Memory	Porius	A Glastonbury Romance	Mr Weston's Good Wine	A Bibliography of Llewelyn Powys	Durdle Door to Dartmoor: Wessex Essays

					May 2008