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Eight letters, 1957-1960, to John Cowper Powys from his sister Marian Powys, mostly containing family news, including an account of Marian's visit to Kenya during 1957-1958.

Thirty-eight letters and two postcards, 1940-1941, 1943, 1945-1949, 1951-1954, 1958, 1960, 1964-1966 and undated, to Phyllis Playter from John Cowper Powys's sister, Marian Powys. The letters contain mainly personal and family news, including the death of Phyllis Playter's mother, Minnie Playter (1953), and Marian's response to e.g. John Cowper Powys's Porius and a newly-published work by Gerald Brenan, probably The Lighthouse Always Says Yes (1966). One letter (f. 93) is illustrated with Marian Powys's ink drawings.

Letters to Phyllis Playter from John Cowper Powys's sister, Marian Powys.

Twenty-seven letters, 1958, 1960-1964 and undated, to Phyllis Playter from Marie Canavaggia, French translator of John Cowper Powys's works. Enclosures comprise a typescript copy of a letter [to Marie Canavaggia] from the painter and sculptor Jean Dubuffet, a typescript copy of a letter sent by Marie Canavaggia to the writer and editor Bernard Privat, and an annotated typescript draft of a short biographical piece on John Cowper Powys by Marie Canavaggia.

Twelve letters and two postcards, [?1956], 1958-1963, to John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter from Marie Canavaggia, French translator of the works of John Cowper Powys. Most of the letters contain discussion of John Cowper Powys's works and there is a reference to the death of John Cowper Powys's sister Philippa (Katie) Powys in January 1963.

Letters to John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter from Marie Canavaggia, French translator of the works of John Cowper Powys.

Seven letters, 1960, 1969, 1970 and undated, to Phyllis Playter from Marion ('Mimi') Bell (née Playter). The letters contain mainly news of family and friends and of Marion Bell's work as a writer.

Twenty-two letters and one postcard, 1944, 1946-1947, 1949, 1952-1953, 1957-1960, to John Cowper Powys from his niece Mary Casey, daughter of Lucy Penny. The letters mostly contain personal and family news, with references also to the deaths of novelist and journalist Theodore Dreiser in 1945 (f. 8) and of Joan Lambert Wilkinson, wife of the writer Louis Wilkinson (f. 39), in 1957, Mary's husband Gerard Casey's ill-health in 1959 (ff. 42-46 verso), and Gerard and Mary's response to John Cowper Powys's novel Homer and the Aether (1959) (f. 44). One letter includes a note to John Cowper Powys from Gerard Casey (f. 16-verso). Enclosed with one letter (ff. 27-32) are photographs of Gerard Casey and Mary's uncle William (Willie) Powys and his sons Gilfrid and Charles Powys and of scenes of rural life in Kenya.

Twelve letters and one apparently incomplete letter, 1926, 1930, 1934 and undated, to Phyllis Playter from her mother, Minnie H. Playter. The letters mainly contain news of family and friends.

Nine letters and one Christmas card, 1947, 1949-1950, 1960, 1962 and undated, to John Cowper Powys from his nephew Oliver Powys, son of John Cowper Powys's brother Albert Reginald (Bertie) Powys, and one letter, 1960, to John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter from Oliver's twin sister Eleanor Powys. The letters contain mostly personal and family news. The envelopes bear notes in the hand of Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir.

Letters to Mary Cowper Powys from the following correspondents: 'Uncle Cowper Hamilton's father' (1), 1869; her father the Rev. William Cowper Johnson (3), [1872], 1879, 1888; her mother Marianne Cowper Johnson (2), 1879 and undated; her husband the Rev. Charles Francis Powys (1), [1879]; her mother-in-law Amelia Powys (1), [1879]; her daughter-in-law Dorothy Mary Powys, wife of Albert Reginald (Bertie) Powys (1), 1905; and [?Norman], her old nurse at Yaxham (1), undated; together with a sheet of paper with a note on the letters [in Mary's daughter Marian Powys's hand]. There are notes by [Marian Powys] on ff. 4 verso, 7 verso and 22, and a note by Mary Cowper Powys on f. 14. The letters contain mostly family news, including the last illness and death of the Rev. Powys's brother Major Littleton Albert Powys. For the 'Mr Lake' referred to in the Rev. Powys's letter see 'Papers relating to Littleton Albert Powys'.

Letters to John Cowper Powys from his wife Margaret Alice Powys, his brothers Llewelyn, Bertie and Will Powys, his sisters-in-law Alyse Gregory and Faith Powys, his companion Phyllis Playter, his nephew Peter Powys Grey and various cousins.

Letters to Phyllis Playter from Father J. Hamilton C. Johnson (1), 1929; Marianne Moore (1), 1929; Edgar Lee Masters (6), 1930-1932 (typescript copies); Helen Dreiser (1), 1933; Bernard O'Neill (2), 1945; Alan Denson (1), 1955; George F. Sims (1), 1956; John Redwood Anderson (7 letters and 1 postcard), 1959, 1961-1963, his wife Gwyneth Anderson (3), 1963 and undated, and from both John Redwood and Gwyneth Anderson (1), [1963] (references to the death of John Cowper Powys); Mary Truesdale (1),1960; Dorothy May Meech (1), 1960; Kenneth Hopkins (1), 1961; Ichiro Hara (6), 1962, 1964, 1974, 1979; Minoru Akiyama (1), 1962; George Steiner (1), 1962; Brocard Sewell (1), 1963, and Moray McLaren (1), 1963, regarding a proposed radio broadcast of John Cowper Powys's son Littleton Alfred Powys's poem 'Ode to the West Wind'; Angus Wilson (1 telegram), 1963 (expressing sympathy on the death of John Cowper Powys); Harold A. Van Kirk (1), 1963; G. Wilson Knight (1), 1964; Harold P. Collins (5),1965-1966; Gerald Pollinger (1), 1975 (with typescript copy of a letter from Phyllis Playter to Gerald Pollinger dated 23 October 1975) (beginning of draft letter to G[erald Pollinger] in Francis Llewellyn Powys's hand on f. 100 verso); and David Jenkins of the National Library of Wales (1), 1979; together with undated letters from Josiah Titzell (1), Gladys Ficke (1), and Fred [ ? ] of Birkenhead. Some of the letters are inscribed with notes by Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir.

Letters to Phyllis Playter from 'cousin Marie' (1), 1926, and George H. Playter (1), [1953], the latter referring to the death of Phyllis Playter's mother, Minnie Playter. Together with one apparently incomplete photocopied letter, 1939, from an unknown correspondent in Kansas to an unnamed recipient.

Letters to Phyllis Playter from various members of the Powys family, including John Cowper Powys's siblings, Littleton Charles Powys, William Ernest (Willie) Powys, Philippa (Katie) Powys and Lucy Penny, and his son, Littleton Alfred Powys.

Letters to Phyllis Playter from Mabel Powys, first wife of Littleton Charles Powys (1), [1940] (with a short note from Littleton Charles Powys); John Cowper Powys's sister, Philippa (Katie) Powys (8), [1945], [1948], 1957, 1960 (one letter, 1960, containing a note from Katie's sister, Lucy Penny; Isobel Powys Marks, daughter of John Cowper Powys's brother, Albert Reginald (Bertie) Powys (13 letters and 2 postcards), 1946, 1949, 1959, 1963, 1964, 1971 and undated; Lucy Penny's daughter, Mary Casey (16 letters and 2 postcards), 1949, 1953, 1958-1963, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1972 (reference to scattering John Cowper Powys's ashes on Chesil Beach and the death of Llewelyn Powys's wife, Alyse Gregory), and Mary's husband, Gerard (1), [?1980] (refers to the death of Mary Casey); John Cowper Powys's niece, Eleanor Powys (1), 1949; John Cowper Powys's son, Littleton Alfred Powys (1), 1949 (enclosing four photographs of Littleton Alfred, one taken with John Cowper Powys, and three of which are inscribed by Littleton Alfred Powys, with a note by Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir on f. 51) and an undated photograph of St Dominic's Church, Dursley, Gloucestershire, inscribed on the dorse by Littleton Alfred; John Cowper Powys's brother, Littleton Charles Powys (1), 1949; Stephen Powys Marks, son of Isobel (1), 1959; John Cowper Powys's sister-in-law, Faith Powys (4), 1962, 1963, 1967; Marian Powys's son, Peter Powys Grey (2), 1963, 1966; Antonia Goldhill, daughter of Isobel (4), 1963 and undated); John Francis Cowper Powys, grandson of Theodore Francis Powys (3 letters and 1 postcard), 1967, 1971, 1972 (references to his marriage and including ink drawings illustrating his new home and possessions, and mention of the death of Violet Powys, John's grandmother); John Cowper Powys's brother, William Ernest (Willie) Powys (1), 1967; and Theodore Francis Powys's daughter-in-law, Sally Powys, wife of Francis Llewellyn Powys (5), 1967, 1978, 1980 and undated.

Ten letters and one postcard, 1935-1938, 1940, 1945-1946, 1948, 1959 and undated, to John Cowper Powys from his nephew Peter Powys Grey, containing mostly personal news, including Peter Powys Grey's forthcoming marriage to Barbara ('Ty') Tyler. Some of the letters are illustrated with small drawings by Peter, including a plan of his room at Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire (f. 1 verso).

Letters from Phyllis Playter to her parents, to members of John Cowper Powys's family, and to various friends and acquaintances.

Letters to Phyllis Playter from her parents, Franklin and Minnie H. Playter, and from Marion Bell (née Playter).

Letters to Phyllis Playter from various members of the Powys family, including John Cowper Powys's sisters, Lucy, Gertrude and Marian, his nephew, Francis Llewellyn Powys, and his sister-in-law, Alyse Gregory, wife of Llewelyn Powys, together with correspondence to Phyllis Playter regarding Alyse Gregory's will and estate.