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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.

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.

Five letters, 1927-[?1929], to John Cowper Powys from his brother, Llewelyn Powys, one of which includes Llewelyn's comments on a draft of the first ten chapters of the recipient's novel Wolf Solent (London, 1929). Also included are three letters, 1927-1942, from his sister-in-law, Alyse Gregory, and one letter, 1953, from Maria Vernie Pease, an admirer of his work, enclosing a pencil sketch of John Cowper Powys by her, [c. 1903].

Letters and cards to Frederick Davies, mainly from members of the Powys family, including forty-seven letters and seventeen cards, 1962-1986, from John Cowper Powys's sister, Lucy Amelia Penny (ff. 3-82) and sixteen letters, 1963-1967, from Alyse Gregory, widow of Llewelyn Powys (ff. 87-110), together with five letters and three cards, 1964-1967, mostly in French, from Marie Canavaggia, translator of John Cowper Powys's works (ff. 111-125).

Letters, 1940, 1960-1961, to John Cowper Powys's sister-in-law Alyse Gregory, widow of Llewelyn Powys, from Sara Bard Field (1), 1940; John [?] (1), 1960; Edward Ernest Bissell (1), 1960; and Donald [?] (1), 1961.

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.

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.

Over one hundred and twenty letters, 1946-1967, from Alyse Gregory, widow of Llewelyn Powys, to Phyllis Playter, the majority of which belong to the period 1960-1967; together with four letters, 1957-1961, from Alyse Gregory to John Cowper Powys (NLW MS 21937E, ff. 11, 22, 47, 73). The letters contain frequent family references, particularly to Gertrude Powys and Katie Powys, and discussion regarding the preservation of Powys family manuscripts, diaries and correspondence.

Over two hundred letters, 1924-1967, from Alyse Gregory, widow of John Cowper Powys's brother, Llewelyn Powys, to Phyllis Playter. There are frequent references to family and friends, and to the publication and preservation of the correspondence and literary manuscripts of John Cowper Powys and Llewelyn Powys.

Forty-three letters, 1932-1942, from Alyse Gregory, author and wife of Llewelyn Powys, to James Venn, bookseller, of Weymouth, a Mr Dibben and another correspondent, with a postcard, 1937, from Llewelyn Powys to James Venn.