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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.

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 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.

Sixteen letters and one postcard, 1939-1961 and undated, to John Cowper Powys from his niece Mary Casey's husband Gerard, who addresses John Cowper Powys as 'dear God-Uncle'. The letters contain mostly personal and family news.