Contents include: Account of walks in Surrey 16 May 1913 Account of tea with W R Lethaby 28 September 1914 Notes on letters in the press April 1921 Autobiographical notes 1946 Notes on handicraft Paper label on front cover: ‘Walks in Surrey. Aubobiographical notes.’ MS annotation on front cover:...
Contents include: Account of visit to Holland (Rotterdam, the Hague, and Texel), with notes on architecture, addressed to C.M.P. Sketch: View south end (verandah) Notes on Tudor Walters Committee Notes on architecture Notes on CPRE policy arguing for constructive creative evolution Pencil sketc...
Contents: Memories of W. R. Lethaby (with intervening draft letter (to The Times?) on Fountains Abbey) Copy of letter from Lenox Murray in Kenya, Feb. 1946 (at other end). Paper label on front: ‘Notes by AP about W.R.L. (might be of use to Lord Esher)’.
Letters from him 1889-1966, the majority to his son Roger Powell 1951-1966, including letters about Bedales 1949-1950 Letters from John H. Badley, co-founder of Bedales School, to Oswald Byrom Powell, 1950-1967, with one letter from him to ‘Mitchener’, 2 November 1938
Oswald Byrom Powell memoirs; and extracts from Powell letters relating to Bedales School
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'My Reminiscences', by Oswald Byrom Powell. Manuscript notebook covering the period up to his meeting with John Badley to discuss the founding of a new school in 1893. The manuscript appears to be incomplete. With a typed transcript covering the period to 1881, also apparently incomplete (13 leav...
Bedales School reports for Roger Powell, 1905-1915, and for Rita Harvey (Roger Powell's future wife), 1920-1921. Two letters from Roger Powell to his mother and grandmother, c 1902. Dinner menu for S.S. Kingfauns Castle, H.M. Transport ship, signed by fellow travellers marked ‘return to R. Pow...
Correspondence 1897-1990 Honorary degree at Trinity College Dublin, 1961. Photograph, programme and other papers Biographical material about Roger Powell, including 3 photographic negatives, with documents about Powell family collection, including loans of Powell manuscripts to the Royal Irish Ac...