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Four hundred and sixty-seven letters, [c. 1860]-1980, from members of the Powys family to other family members (the eleven siblings excepted), spouses and partners and friends, comprising: (i) nine letters, [?1870s]-[1912], to C. F. Powys, at least one from each of his six sons, with three from John Cowper Powys; (ii) sixty-two letters, 1879-1914, to Mary Cowper Powys from C. F. Powys (1), [c. 1900], her children John (18), [c. 1882]-1914, Littleton (2), [c. 1880]-1906, Theodore (22), [c. 1880]-1909, Gertrude (2), 1888, 1891, Eleanor (1), [?1891], Albert (2), 1904-1905, Llewelyn (5), 1892-1911, and William (3), 1904-1914, her mother Amelia Powys (1), 1885, and other relatives (6), 1879-1913; (iii) five letters, [c. 1860]-1926, to various Johnson relatives; (iv) one letter, 1911, from Mary Cowper Powys to Mary Penny, Lucy's mother-in-law; (v) one letter, [n.d.], from Lucy Penny to Margaret Casey, Mary's mother-in-law; (vi) one letter, 1929, to Alice Mabel Powys from her husband Littleton C. Powys; (vii) one letter, [1920s], to Violet Powys from Gertrude Powys; (viii) one hundred and twenty-two letters, 1941-1967, to Alyse Gregory, including one hundred and eighteen from Mary Casey; (ix) seventeen letters, 1938-1954, to Phyllis Playter from Lucy Penny (5), 1945-1948, Elizabeth Powys (née Cross) (3), 1948-1953, Mary Casey (6), 1949-1953, and others; (x) ten letters, 1911-1938, to Hounsell Penny from his wife Lucy Penny (7), 1911-1938, and Llewelyn Powys (3), 1936 and [n.d.]; (xi) one letter, 1910, to Isobel Powys from her father A. R. Powys; (xii) one letter, 1953, to Gilfrid and Charles Powys from their father William Powys; (xiii) fifteen letters, 1951-1965 to Valentine Ackland, including twelve, [n.d.] from Lucy Penny; (xiv) two hundred and eighteen letters, 1946-1980, to Gertrude Shackleton (née Jeffreys) from her friend Mary Casey; with (xv) three letters, 1901-1967, to other friends and acquaintances.

Some four hundred and fifty-six letters and cards, 1926-1953 (mostly 1926-1927, 1945-1947, 1949-1953), from Mary Casey (Mary Penny before 1945) to her mother Lucy Penny, containing personal and family news, together with occasional enclosures such as press cuttings and textile swatches; from October 1946, when Mary and Gerard Casey settled in Kenya, the majority of the letters are air letters.
A single letter, 15 December 1953, from Gerard Casey to Lucy is also included, as is Lucy’s correspondence with White & Co., Southampton, February-March 1947, re. transporting some of her furniture to Kenya.

Some six hundred and seventy-one air letters, letters and postcards, 1966-1977, from Mary Casey, Timau, Kenya, to her mother Lucy Penny, containing personal and family news, and occasionally enclosing letters from family and friends, photographs and press cuttings.
The enclosed correspondence comprises six letters addressed to Mary from correspondents including Katey [Grey], 1970-1971, and Peter [Powys Grey], 1974, and three to Lucy Penny, including one from Phyllis Playter, 13 February 1970. Towards the end of this period Mary and Gerard Casey were spending more time in the UK, prior to returning permanently.

Some six hundred and eighty-one letters, mostly air letters, 1960-1965, from Mary Casey, Timau, Kenya, to her mother Lucy Penny, containing personal and family news, and occasional enclosures such as press cuttings; together with two letters, 1960, 1965, from Gerard Casey to Lucy.

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.

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.

Five hundred and thirty-three letters, 1917-1978, to Mary Casey from John Cowper Powys (32), 1926-1960; Littleton C. Powys (5), 1940, 1953-1954; Theodore F. Powys (1), 20 March 1938; Gertrude Powys (43, mainly postcards), 1922-1952; Marian Powys Grey (28), 1945-1967; Llewelyn Powys (2), 1938 and [n.d.]; Katie Powys (175), 1923-1962; William Powys (179), 1917-1978; Rose Dyer (7), 1968-1978; Charles Powys (2), 1973; Eleanor (Nellie) Walton (née Powys) (3), 1956-1973; Alyse Gregory (14), 1944-1966; Sally Powys (1), 1970; Mabel Bennett, first wife of Littleton C. Powys (16), 1937-1942; Henrietta Cowper Johnson (Aunt Etta) (11), 1924-1933; Maria Theodora Johnson (Aunt Dora) (2), 1923; Catherine Cowper Donne (Aunt Kate) (1 note), [n.d.]; 'M.J.' (2 postcards), 1924-1928; Dorothy Powys, first wife of A. R. Powys (3 postcards), 1930-1934; Elizabeth Powys (née Cross), William Powys's wife (3), 1936; and Phyllis Playter (3), 1953-1956.
A letter from Gerard Casey is enclosed with William Powys's January 1978 letter. The letters of Gertrude Powys and William Powys occasionally contain thumbnail sketches or watercolour drawings.

Some five hundred and seventy letters, mostly air letters, 1954-1959, from Mary Casey, Timau, Kenya, to her mother Lucy Penny, containing personal and family news, and occasional enclosures such as photographs and press cuttings; together with two letters, 1959, from Gerard Casey to Lucy.