Part of John Petts Manuscripts
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.
Part of Miscellaneous letters and papers
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