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Copies of 'A Catalogue of the Powys Collection at Mappowder' (273 ff.) and 'A Checklist of the Casey Collection at Mappowder' (15 ff.), both compiled in 2012 by Peter J. Foss, listing between them the entirety of the papers, books, photographs, etc., of Lucy Penny and Mary Casey then in the possession of Louise de Bruin in Mappowder, Dorset.
Not all of the papers listed were offered for sale in 2023 or were then purchased by the National Library of Wales; large parts of those that were have been completely reordered. Consequently the catalogues are not a reliable guide to the contents of the archive now at NLW; they are nevertheless included as a snapshot of the entire Collection in its previous home, for the additional information they contain concerning the letters and for details of material not at the NLW. Also included is a copy of the Dominic Winter auction catalogue for 13-14 December 2023, listing the Mappowder Powys Collection (lots 672-687).

Typescript copies of Raymond Garlick's 'Poem for a Neighbour: For John Cowper Powys' (taken from the Dublin Magazine) (3 ff.); a dissertation, 'A Man of Many Masks: John Cowper Powys's Autobiography in the Light of the Letters to His Brother Llewelyn', [1984x1986] (46 ff.), and a lecture, 'A Man of Many Masks: Powys's Autobiography and the Letters to His Brother Llewelyn', 1986 (ii, 12 ff.), both by Margaret Woolf; and 'John Cowper Powys: The Man and His Books – As seen by himself, his family and his friends', compiled by Frederick Davies (40 ff.); together with photocopies of three articles or book chapters in Dutch concerning John Cowper Powys, comprising: Simon Vestdijk, 'Een geval van religieus materialisme' (from an unspecified edition of his Zuiverende kroniek (first published 1956), pp. 21-59), a chapter of Willem Brakman, De jojo van de lezer: Essays (Amsterdam, 1985) (pp. 106-123) and Gerben Wynia, 'John Cowper Powys, Een Queeste' (from Maatstaf, 3 (1989), 65-80).

Some 2121 letters, 1922-1978, addressed to Mary Casey, comprising 1192 from her mother Lucy Penny, 1922-1978, 249 from her husband Gerard Casey, 1945-1978, and 680 from other family and friends, 1917-1978; together with 619 letters to Gerard Casey, 1939-1996, including 326 from Mary, 1945-1979; and five letters, 1953-1954, from Gerard Casey to his brother Patrick.

Over seven thousand letters, [c. 1860]-[20 cent., last ¼], comprising correspondence of Lucy Penny, Mary and Gerald Casey and members of the Powys and related families.

Two hundred and twenty-nine letters, 1901-1986, to Lucy Penny from various family members and friends and acquaintances, including fifty from her Aunts Kate, Dora and Etta and other Johnson relatives, 1901-1970; fourteen from her mother-in-law Mary Penny, 1912-1931 (addressed to both Lucy and her husband Hounsell Penny); a single Christmas card from Hounsell Penny, [n.d.]; six letters from her son-in-law Gerard Casey, 1958-1977; twenty-five from Alyse Gregory, 1940-1967, with ten from other partners of her siblings, 1905-1956; letters from her friends Monica Blake (28, postcards), 1938-1969, Bernard Price O’Neill (20), 1909-1947, Louis Wilkinson (14), 1904-1960, Emily Clare (9), 1906-1934, Valentine Ackland (11), 1965-1969, Florida Scott-Maxwell (5), 1963-1969, and John Redwood Anderson (7), 1943-1963; and some twenty-five miscellaneous letters from other acquaintances, 1925-1986.

Some two hundred and eighty-four letters, 1901-1960, to Lucy Penny from her parents and older siblings, comprising eighteen letters, 1909-1918, from her father C. F. Powys; fifty-nine, 1911-1914, from her mother Mary Cowper Powys; one hundred and sixty-seven, 1901-1960, from John Cowper Powys (with three from Phyllis Playter enclosed); and thirty-six, 1933-1955, from Littleton C. Powys (with one from his wife Mabel enclosed)

Some four hundred and seventy-one letters, 1897-1976, to Lucy Penny from her younger siblings, comprising five letters, 1905-1953, from Theodore F. Powys; eighty-two, 1897-1953, from Gertrude Powys; one, [c. 1890], from Eleanor Powys; six, 1903-1935, from A. R. Powys; nineteen, 1907-1971, from Marian Powys; sixty-seven, 1908-1939, from Llewelyn Powys; two hundred and forty-three, 1903-1963, from Philippa (Katie) Powys; and forty-eight, 1903-1976, from William Powys.
The letters of Gertrude Powys and William Powys occasionally contain thumbnail sketches or watercolour drawings.

Some two hundred and forty-nine air letters, letters and postcards, 1945-1978, from Gerard Casey, mostly in Kenya, to his wife Mary, together with occasional enclosures such as photographs and press cuttings.

Five letters, October 1953-April 1954, from Gerard Casey to his brother Patrick Casey mainly concerning their differing attitudes to religion and to the Roman Catholic church in particular.
The letters were published in Gerard Casey, Night Horizons (Ghent, NY, 1997), pp. 25-103.

Photocopies, [20 cent., last ¼], of eleven letters from John Cowper Powys to various recipients, comprising a letter, [June 1894], to [W. A. J.] Archbold, requesting a lecturing post (see Stuart Marriott and Janet Coles, 'John Cowper Powys as University Extension Lecturer, 1898-1909', Powys Journal, 4 (1994), 7-50 (pp. 8, 36-37)) (2 photographs); a letter to Phyllis Playter, [16 November 1929]; a list of the characters in A Glastonbury Romance, sent to Marian Powys, 28 May 1931; a letter to Ella Young, 29 May 1933; a letter to Marian Powys, 15 March 1936 (2 copies); five letters to Béla Hamvas of Budapest, Hungary, with one to his wife Katalin Kemény, 1946-1947 (see John Cowper Powys and Katalin Kemény, 'Six Letters to Béla Hamvas and Katalin Kemény', Powys Journal, 3 (1993), 157-176); and a letter to Katie Powys, [n.d.] (from the original at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin).
Also included are typescript extracts from ten letters from John Cowper Powys to Frances Gregg and Louis Wilkinson, dated 22 August-1 September 1912 (probably relating to the preparation of The Letters of John Cowper Powys to Frances Gregg, ed. by Oliver Marlow Wilkinson and Christopher Wilkinson, 2 vols (London, 1994-1996)).

Seven manuscript poems, 1893-1897 and [n.d.], by John Cowper Powys, including a poem on the death of his sister Eleanor (Nelly), dated 20 April 1893 (f. 3), and fragments of 'Penglog – Baban y Gawr' (ff. 10-12); together with a map of the landscape of Porius drawn by Powys in a letter to his sister Gertrude, [c. 1950] (f. 13), a photocopy of an inscription by Powys to Muriel Creighton Balfour, 1960 (f. 14), and typed copies, dated 1933 and 1972, of two poems (ff. 15-17).

Galley proofs, [?1970s], of nine articles by John Cowper Powys, first published 1923-1955, possibly intended for an unidentified collected edition and apparently part of an incomplete numbering sequence. The articles are 'The Crime Wave in Fiction', [first published 1929] (foliated 1-3), 'Race and Literature', [1923] (ff. 23-26), 'Marcel Proust', [1924] (ff. 27-28), 'Children of Adam', [1927] (ff. 37-38), 'Thomas Hardy and His Times', [1928] (ff. 41), 'The Charms of Solitude', [1932] (f. 55), 'England Revisited' (incomplete), [1935] (ff. 69-72), 'Dorset – Homeliest County', [1941] (ff. 80-82), and part of an essay on Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, [1955] (ff. 130-135).
Also included are photocopies of the articles 'Lecturing on Books' (The Publishers' Weekly, 22 March 1930, pp. 1655-1659) and 'My First Publication' (Mark Twain Quarterly, 9.2 (Winter 1952), 22-23) and the poems 'The Last Man' and 'Sonnet written in Sweffling Churchyard (1899)'.

Four hundred and forty letters, 1923-1996, addressed to Mary or Gerald Casey, consisting of (i) one hundred and forty-seven letters, 1923-1972, to Mary Casey from correspondents including her grandmother Mary Jane Penny (23), 1923-1931, Gertrude Shackleton (10), 1944-1969, Valentine Ackland (54), 1966-1969 (mainly 1969), Monica Blake (10), 1939-1964, Patrick Casey, her brother-in-law (2), 1953-1956, Nellie S. Hounsell (5), 1945-1955, her grandfather Rowland Penny (2), 1931-1932, Barbara Kerr (1), 1973, and Vera Wainwright (2), 1956; (ii) seventy-six letters, 1939-1996, to Gerard Casey from the Powys family: John Cowper Powys (6), 1939-1949, Marian Powys Grey (1), [?1965], Katie Powys (26), 1946-1962, William Powys (14), 1946-1969, Lucy Penny (10), 1945-1960, Alyse Gregory (3), 1951-1962, Phyllis Playter (6), 1947-1971, Rose Dyer (1), 1986, Eleanor Walton (2), 1986, 1996, Peter Powys Grey (2), 1969 and [n.d.], Anthony (Tony) Dyer (1), 1986, Gilfrid Powys (3), 1986, and Mary Barham Johnson (1), 1986; and (iii) two hundred and seventeen letters, 1943-1996, to Gerard Casey from other correspondents including his mother Margaret Casey (156, mainly addressed to him and Mary, with eight addressed to Mary only), 1943-1975, John Redwood Anderson (5), 1946-1962, Timothy Hyman (3), 1975-1985, Jeremy Hooker (4), 1972-1986, Glen Cavaliero (5), 1974-1987, Kathleen Raine (10), [1970s]-1986, Kim [Taplin] (2 postcards), 1986 and [n.d.], Roland Mathias (2), 1976, Alan Clodd (1), 1975, Iorwerth Peate (1), 1974, Jack Clemo (1), 1986, Oliver [Marlow Wilkinson] (2), 1986-1987, Rosemary Manning (1), 1975, G[eorge Richard] Wilson-Knight (3), 1971-1977, David Blamires (1), 1972, and Gertrude Shackleton (2), [?1973], 1986.

Four hundred and thirteen family and other letters, [c. 1883]-1963, addressed to Lucy Penny's siblings, comprising: (i) sixty nine letters, 1890-1963, to John Cowper Powys from C. F. Powys (1), 1890, Littleton Powys (1), 1948, William Powys (36), 1943-1954, Lucy Penny (6), 1932-1948, Mary Casey (6), 1942-1954 (with 1 to Phyllis enclosed), Gerard Casey (14), 1944-1954, Frances Gregg (1), [1912x1914], H. E. Fanshawe (1), 1894 (letter of recommendation for JCP as a lecturer), and Frederick E. Davies (1), 1963; (ii) six letters, [c. 1886]-1954, to Littleton C. Powys from Theodore Powys (1), Gertrude Powys (2), Lucy Penny (1), [Hermione Justice Shirley], Countess Ferrers (1), and Patrick Bury (1); (iii) six letters, [c. 1883]-[1945], to Theodore Powys from John Cowper Powys (2), Gertrude Powys (1), Llewelyn Powys (1), Lucy Penny (1) and Mary Casey (1); (iv) one hundred and eighty-seven letters, [c. 1883]-1952, to Gertrude Powys from C. F. Powys (7), 1893-1918, Mary Cowper Powys (23), 1893-1914, John Cowper Powys (5), [c. 1883]-1949, Littleton Powys (2), 1945, Theodore Powys (2), [c. 1886], 1947, Eleanor Powys (1), 1891, Llewelyn Powys (2), 1937, Katie Powys (2), 1951-1952, William Powys (21), [1914]-1950, Lucy Penny (65), 1935-1951, Mary Casey (14), 1930-1950, various other relatives (20), 1913-1949, Alyse Gregory (11), 1939-1952, Phyllis Playter (4), 1939-1951, and Bernard O’Neill (6), 1942-1947; (v) six letters, [c. 1883]-[c. 1893], to Eleanor Powys from John Cowper Powys (3) and Gertrude Powys (3); (vi) six letters, [?1909]-[1915x1936], to Albert Reginald Powys from Katie Powys (1), William Powys (1) and Lucy Penny (4); (vii) three letters, 1893-1949, to Marian Powys from Llewelyn Powys (1) and others; (viii) seven letters, 1910-1936, to Llewelyn Powys mostly from his siblings; (viii) one hundred and four letters, [1880s/1890s]-1962, to Philippa (Katie) Powys from C. F. Powys (1), 1919, John Cowper Powys (2), [1880s/1890s], [c. 1934], Theodore Powys (5), 1901-1950, Gertrude Powys, (15), 1923-1951, Marian Powys (3), 1929-1960, Llewelyn Powys (4), 1937-1938, William Powys (18), [1910]-1962, Lucy Penny (23), 1915-1954, Mary Casey (20), 1943-1962, Phyllis Playter (4), 1954-1962, Alyse Gregory (1), 1962, Bernard O’Neill (3), 1930-1947, Valentine Ackland (1), 1954, and others; and (ix) nineteen letters, 1903-1949, to William Ernest Powys from Gertrude Powys (5), 1935-1949, Llewelyn Powys (8), 1917-1937, Katie Powys (2), [c. 1922], Lucy Penny (2), 1936, Alyse Gregory (1), 1939, and Bernard O’Neill (1), 1903.
The letters of Gertrude Powys and William Powys occasionally contain thumbnail sketches or watercolour drawings.

Over 3500 letters, [c. 1890]-1986, addressed to Lucy Penny, comprising 755 from her parents and siblings, [c. 1890]-1976; some 2378 from her daughter Mary Casey, 1926-1977; and 414 from other family members, her siblings's wives and partners, friends and miscellaneous acquaintances, 1901-1986, including 185 from Phyllis Playter, 1935-1980.

Some three hundred and forty-three letters and cards, 1922-1953 (mostly 1926, 1945-1953), from Lucy Penny to her daughter Mary Casey, containing personal and family news, together with occasional enclosures such as press cuttings, textile swatches, pressed flowers and family letters; from October 1946, when Mary and Gerard Casey settled in Kenya, the majority of the letters are air letters.
The enclosed correspondence comprises thirteen letters addressed to Lucy from Phyllis Playter, 16 October 1945 (postcard), Littleton [C.] Powys, 5 June 1950, 8 and 24 April 1953, John Cowper Powys, 20 July 1950, [13] October 1951, Willie Powys, 26 July and 4 [?August] 1950, Katie Powys, 28 October 1951, 21 August 1953, Marian Powys, 16 November 1952, 1 March 1953, and Littleton Alfred Powys, 10 February 1953; and six letters to Mary from Katie Powys, 27 March 1947, 22 October and 26 November 1949, 8 January and 16 April 1950, and Gertrude Powys, 16 April 1950. Also included are one air letter each to Mary Casey from Alyse Gregory, Nellie S. Hounsell and G. Hunt, all March-April 1949.

Some five hundred and twenty-two letters, mostly air letters, 1954-1964, from Lucy Penny to her daughter Mary Casey, containing personal and family news, together with occasional enclosures such as photographs, press cuttings, textile swatches, pressed flowers and family letters.
The enclosed correspondence comprises letters addressed to Lucy from Littleton Powys, 22 January and 30 April 1954, Alyse Gregory, 22 April 1954, Phyllis Playter, 7 June 1954, [September 1955], Nellie G. Hounsell, 5 December 1954, 3 July and 26 September 1955, [November 1956], and Marian Powys, 13 February 1955; and letters to Mary from Nellie S. Hounsell, 22 May 1956, and Katie Powys, 9 July 1956, [July 1960] (2).

Some three hundred and twenty-seven letters, mostly air letters, 1965-1978, from Lucy Penny to her daughter Mary Casey, containing personal and family news, together with occasional enclosures such as photographs, press cuttings, pressed flowers and letters from family and friends.
The enclosed correspondence comprises thirteen letters addressed to Lucy from correspondents including Valentine Ackland, 13 January 1966, 22 March 1968, 2 November 1969, Sylvia [Townsend Warner], 8 November 1969, Glen [Cavaliero], 10 January 1970, and Peter [Powys Grey], 22 January 1972. Also included are letters to Mary Casey from Helen Maddick, 22 November 1970, and Cathy Lentz, 3 February 1977.

Manuscripts, papers and catalogues, 1838-2023, relating to the Powys family.

Some three hundred and twenty-six air letters, letters and postcards, 1945-1979, from Mary Casey to her husband Gerard, together with occasional enclosures such as photographs, press cuttings and forwarded letters, including a letter from Lucy Penny to Gerard Casey, 30 December 1977.