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Llythyrau amrywiol, 1923-1973, gan gynnwys rhai oddi wrth Violet Alford (2); J. Redwood Anderson (15); J. Bodfan Anwyl (3); E. R. Appleton (3); E. Bachellery (2); F. A. Bather; H. Idris Bell (15); Richard Bennett (3); R. G. Berry (2); Aneurin Bevan; Gwilym Bowyer; Joseph Bradney; a Henry Brooke.

Llythyrau amrywiol, 1936-1982 (1977-1982 yn bennaf), gan gynnwys rhai oddi wrth J. Redwood Anderson (2); Ifor ap Gwilym (2); Gwynn ap Gwilym; Douglas Bassett; Gerard Casey; Joseph P. Clancy; Eirian Davies; Jennie Eirian Davies; George M. Ll. Davies; R. Alun Evans (2); R. Geraint Gruffydd; Robin Gwyndaf (2); E. D. Jones; Alan Llwyd (5); Emyr Llywelyn; Dyfnallt Morgan; T. E. Nicholas (2); Thomas Parry; Selyf Roberts; Meic Stephens; W. Bryn Thomas; Glanmor Williams; a J. Lloyd Williams.

Photocopies (some text faint) of one hundred and fifty-eight letters, one postcard and one telegram, 1939-1941, from John Cowper Powys to the poet Huw Menai (Huw Owen Williams). The letters include accounts of the last illness and death of John Cowper Powys's dog 'The Very Old' and the death of his brother Llewelyn Powys, both in 1939, and the death of Powys's friend Frances Gregg in 1941, together with mention of Powys's past works and works in progress, reflections on the war, health matters, and a reference to a letter of 1940 sent by Powys to his sister Marian Powys which was returned by the censor (ff. 186-7) (see 'Letters to Marian Powys from John Cowper Powys'). Many of the letters are illustrated with John Cowper Powys's ink drawings, which include self-caricatures and depictions of Huw Menai as a sea-serpent . Ff. 159, 166-7, 170-1, 207 appear to be draft prose piece(s) by Powys (crossed out). Also included are two photocopied letters, 1939, from Powys to Arfon [?son of Huw Menai]. Enclosures comprise two further photocopied letters from Powys to Arfon (enclosed with letters dated 20 August 1940 and 23 February 1941), a note to Huw Menai from Jean [--?] (f. 157), a note in Welsh to Powys from John Redwood Anderson (f. 422), and a press cutting in Welsh relating to the teaching of Welsh history (f. 503).

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.

Eleven letters, 1938-1940, from John Cowper Powys to the writer Harlan Cozad McIntosh (1908-1940), containing detailed comments on a draft of the recipient's novel, This Finer Shadow (New York, 1941) (ff. 8-34 verso); and twelve letters, 1938-1942, from the same to McIntosh's wife, Jane Hardy, a New York literary agent (ff. 3, 35-58 verso). Also included are a manuscript copy of Powys's foreword to the novel, and carbon copies of three letters from Jane Hardy: two, 1938, to Powys (ff. 1, 5), and one, 1966, to Powys's literary agent, Gerald Pollinger (f. 59).
The letters contain references to Edwin Muir (f. 8 verso), James Hanley (ff. 10 recto-verso, 12 verso, 13-14 verso, 15 recto-verso, 47, 48 verso, 57) and John Redwood Anderson (f. 58 verso), and to the death of Llewelyn Powys (ff. 33 verso-34).