Powys, Theodore Francis

Holograph manuscripts of Powys' novels. SL V 76 is Dialogue on Genesis , 1906. SL V 77 is Mark Only , 1922. SL V 78 is The Dewpond , 1928 and SL V 79 is The House with the Echo , 1928.

Theodore Francis Powys was born at Shirley, Dorset in 1875. He was educated at Dorchester Grammar School. He published his first work An Interpretation of Genesis in 1908. During his writing career, Powys wrote many novels and short stories. His last novel published during his lifetime was Goat Green in 1937. Powys remained in Dorset for the rest of his life. He died on 27 November 1953.

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University of London Library, The Sterling library: a catalogue of the printed books and literary manuscripts collected by Sir Louis Sterling and presented by him to the University of London , Cambridge, (1954).

The Harry Ransom Human Resources Center Library, University of Texas at Austin, holds literary papers; the Dorset County Museum contains miscellaneous correspondence and literary papers; Aberdeen University Library holds letters to John Bisset Chapman, 1925-1936; the British Library, London, has letters to Vera Wainwright, 1926-1951 (Ref: Add MSS 54330).

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