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Letters to Gwyn Jones,

Two letters, 1946-1947, to Gwyn Jones, the first from Dorothea Braby, London, 6 December 1946 (ff. 28-29), and the second from John Cowper Powys, Corwen, 11 November 1947 (ff. 30-32), both of which concern Gwyn and Thomas Jones's new translation of the Mabinogion, published as The Golden Cockerel Mabinogion ([London]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1947).
Braby discusses her illustration for the title page of The Golden Cockerel Mabinogion and includes a written description of its layout (f. 29) (see Professor Gwyn Jones, 'The Golden Cockerel Mabinogion, 1944-1948', Trans. Cymm. (1989), 181-209 (pp. 197-206) for further details and for extracts of related letters from Braby). Powys congratulates Jones on the translation, requests a cheap edition and gives his thoughts on translations in general.

Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963

The Golden Cockerel Press,

Letters, 1945-1991, to John Petts comprising over a hundred, 1945-1959, from Christopher Sandford of the Golden Cockerel Press and eight, 1959-1961, from Sandford's successor, John Frost, mainly concerning Petts's engravings for books published by them, notably Against Women (1953) and In Defence of Woman (1960).

Christopher Sandford and John Frost.