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Letters to John Cowper Powys arranged alphabetically, A-E. The correspondents are as follows: Tetsuo Akiyama (5), 1961-1964 + 1 undated Christmas card; Margaret Armstrong (1), 1953; Avice Maud Bowbyes (1), 1960 (reference to the death of the novelist, poet and playwright Reginald Hunter); Nellie Browne (1), [1920s]; Adrian Bury (2), 1946; A. B. Clinkscales (1), 1957; Benjamin De Casseres (1), 1937; Helen Dreiser (1) [?incomplete], undated; P. [?W.] Drinkwater, of the Home Office (1), 1937; Malcolm Elwin (2), 1944, 1960; and Emily, family nurse (1), undated.

Four letters, 1918, 1922, 1925, to John Cowper Powys from his brother Albert Reginald (Bertie) Powys and three letters, [1935] and undated, from his brother William Ernest (Will) Powys, containing mostly personal and family news.

Forty-four letters, 1963-1965 and undated, to Phyllis Playter from John Cowper Powys's sister-in-law, Alyse Gregory, widow of Llewelyn Powys, one of which encloses part of a letter [?from the writer Gamel Woolsey to ?Alyse Gregory]. The letters contain mainly news of family and friends and many references to Alyse Gregory's physical and emotional health, together with a discussion concerning the publication of John Cowper Powys's letters and diaries.

Forty-three letters and several incomplete/fragmentary letters, 1966-1967 and undated, to Phyllis Playter from John Cowper Powys's sister-in-law, Alyse Gregory, widow of Llewelyn Powys. The letters contain multiple references to Alyse Gregory's declining physical and emotional health, her thoughts on death and her own suicide, and her anxiety over the disposal of her papers.

Thirty-three letters, 1929, [c. 1953], [1957], 1960 and undated, to Phyllis Playter from John Cowper Powys's sister-in-law, Alyse Gregory, wife of Llewelyn Powys. The letters contain mainly family news and mention of members of the Powys circle of friends and acquaintances, together with Alyse Gregory's thoughts on the issue of suicide.

Letters to Phyllis Playter from John Cowper Powys's sister-in-law, Alyse Gregory, wife of Llewelyn Powys; together with correspondence addressed to Phyllis Playter regarding Alyse Gregory's will and estate.

Forty-four letters and one postcard, 1961-1962, to Phyllis Playter from John Cowper Powys's sister-in-law, Alyse Gregory, widow of Llewelyn Powys. The letters contain mainly family news and mention of members of the Powys circle of friends and acquaintances, together with Alyse Gregory's thoughts on the issue of suicide.

Thirty letters, 1878-1889 and undated, to the Rev. Charles Francis Powys from his mother Amelia Powys. The letters contain mostly family news, including the birth of Charles and Mary Powys's second daughter Eleanor, who died in 1893 aged 13, and reflections on Charles's brother Major Littleton Albert Powys, following his death in August 1879. There are notes by [Amelia Powys's granddaughter Marian Powys] on ff. 38 verso, 44 verso and 49, and by Charles Francis Powys on ff. 33, 53 verso and 55. Enclosures comprise proposed memorial inscriptions for Amelia Powys and her husband the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys (ff. 52-54) and a card bearing Biblical verses (f. 73).

Eight letters and one postcard, 1962, 1964-1965, 1967, to Phyllis Playter from Michel Gresset, and one letter, 1966, to Phyllis Playter from an unknown correspondent mentioning Michel Gresset. Gresset's letters mostly contain personal and family news and references to the translation of John Cowper Powys's works into French.

Letters to John Cowper Powys from his cousins Father Hamilton Johnson (7, one partial), 1925, 1930-1931, 1940 and undated, (together with two letters, 1944, 1950, from Father Johnson to John Cowper Powys's sister Marian Powys, and one letter, 1950, from Father Johnson to Helen Morgan), Warwick Gurney Powys (2), 1928, 1930 (including poetry by him), Ralph Shirley (6), 1936, 1940-1941, 1944, 1946, (together with a comment in verse on a poem by John Cowper Powys, with an inscription by the latter on f. 53, and a typed poem by Ralph Shirley), and Trevor Moilliet (2), 1952.

Letters to John Cowper Powys from the Milton scholar and fantasy writer E. H. Visiak (Edward Harold Physick).

Sixteen letters and one postcard, 1943, 1945-1948, 1950, 1953, to John Cowper Powys from the Milton scholar and fantasy writer E. H. Visiak (Edward Harold Physick), containing mostly discussions of his own and others' works. Also included are an inscribed copy of Visiak's pamphlet The Animus Against Milton (Derby, 1945), an inscribed press review by Visiak of A. J. A. Waldock's Paradise Lost and its Critics (1947), an inscribed card (undated) bearing a signed ink drawing by Visiak, and a Christmas card (undated) containing signed poems by Visiak.

Carbon copies of typed letters to John Cowper Powys from the poet Edgar Lee Masters.

Carbon copies of one hundred and twenty-three typed letters (three of which are incomplete), 1916-1919, 1922-1923, 1927-1946 and undated, to John Cowper Powys from the poet Edgar Lee Masters, containing mostly discussions of Masters's own and others' writings and his responses to John Cowper Powys's works, with a reference also to the death of John Cowper Powys's brother Llewelyn Powys in 1939. Some of the copies bear annotations in Phyllis Playter's hand. Also included is a press cutting, dated 24 August 1949, relating to Masters's eightieth birthday and a list of crossed-out dates - probably relating to the sending or receipt of letters - in Phyllis Playter's hand.

Forty-six letters, 1951-1954 and undated, to John Cowper Powys from Eric Harvey of Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, London, containing both professional correspondence and personal news. Enclosures comprise a printed interview-style article, [1953], relating to John Cowper Powys's novel A Glastonbury Romance (1933), a typed copy of Powys's Preface to A Glastonbury Romance, and three photographs of Eric Harvey's infant children.

Twenty-seven letters, 1955-1956, to John Cowper Powys from Eric Harvey of Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, London, containing both professional correspondence and personal news, including references to the death of Powys's brother Littleton Charles Powys in 1955. There are inscriptions by John Cowper Powys on ff. 12 verso and 38.

Twenty-two letters, 1956-1965, to Phyllis Playter from Eric Harvey of Macdonald & Co. Ltd, publishers, London. Along with personal news, the letters mainly discuss the publication of John Cowper Powys's works, including the libel case involving Powys's novel Weymouth Sands (1934) and its subsequent reprinting, by Macdonald, in 1963. There are references also to the death of John Cowper Powys in June 1963, the death of Powys's nephew, Charles Powys, in Kenya in 1964, and to Phyllis Playter's proposed voyage to South America early in 1964. Enclosed with one letter, dated 21 September 1963, are letters to Phyllis Playter from Harvey's children, Richard and Juliet.

Letters to John Cowper Powys from Eric Harvey of Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, London, containing both professional correspondence and personal news.

Twenty-four letters and two enclosed photographs, 1957-1962, to John Cowper Powys from Eric Harvey of Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, London, and one letter, 1957, from John [?Fortis White] of Macdonald & Co. The letters contain both professional correspondence and personal news.

Fourteen letters, 1940-1962, to John Cowper Powys from Faith Powys (née Oliver), second wife of John Cowper Powys's brother Albert Reginald (Bertie) Powys. Enclosed with one letter is a note to John Cowper Powys from Faith Powys's son Oliver Powys, and there is a note to Phyllis Playter on the dorse of another letter. The letters contain mostly family news, including a proposed memorial for Bertie Powys at St Andrew's Church, Winterbourne Tomson, and one letter of 29 December 1940 vividly describes an air raid over their home in Cheltenham. The envelopes bear the names of the correspondents in the hand of Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir.