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Correspondence, 1981-2000, of Susan Llewellyn with the literary agency Curtis Brown Ltd, relating to their management of Richard Llewellyn's copyrights and royalties in America. The file contains royalty statements, copyright agreements, copyright renewal certificates, etc., relating to various publishers such as Simon & Schuster and Macmillan Publishing Company, mainly but not exclusively in relation to How Green Was My Valley. Also included are original and copy agreements, and associated correspondence of Richard Llewellyn, with Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959-1977.

The revised and heavily corrected final three pages, 1931, in John Cowper Powys's hand, of his novel A Glastonbury Romance (London, 1932) (ff. 1-3); Powys apparently rewrote the ending at the instigation of Phyllis Playter, who suggested the changes subsequently made to the original text.
Also included is correspondence, 1955-1957, of a Mr Baston, then owner of the novel's manuscript, comprising letters from Powys, 27 July 1955 (f. 4), and the US publishing house Simon & Schuster, 2 September 1955 (f. 6), with a carbon copy letter from Baston to Simon & Schuster, 15 August 1955 (f. 5), concerning Baston’s efforts to find the manuscript's missing chapters, and a letter from the bookseller George Sims, 28 January 1957, offering the present three folios to Baston (f. 7).