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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.

Fifty letters, 1937-1961, from John Cowper Powys (ff. 6-49, 51-60 verso), one letter, 1959, from his companion, Phyllis Playter (f. 50), and six letters and two postcards, 1937-1939 (ff. 62-72), together with an inscribed photograph, 1937 (f. 61), from Llewelyn Powys, to Margaret Moon (afterwards Margaret Newton). Many of the letters contain reminiscences of Montacute, Somerset, childhood home of the Powys brothers, and birthplace of Margaret Moon. Two of the letters from John Cowper Powys (ff. 30-32 verso) are in the hand of Phyllis Playter, writing as his amanuensis. Also included are three letters, 1990, from Margaret Newton to Paul Roberts, editor of the Powys Society Newsletter (ff. 1-5).
The letters contain references to Thomas Hardy (ff. 13 verso, 40 recto-verso, 48), Theodore Dreiser (f. 44), W. B. Yeats (f. 29 verso) and Theodore Francis Powys (ff. 38 verso, 39 verso).

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].

Some one hundred and eight letters, 1917-1965, to John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter from various correspondents, including Theodore Dreiser (2), 1927; George Wilson Knight (31), 1956-1965; Edgar Lee Masters (1), 1944; Henry Miller (1), 1950; John Cowper Powys's brother, Llewelyn Powys (3), 1928-1931; Dr Enid Starkie (2), 1943-1946; and Gamel Woolsey (15), 1928-1961.

Three letters, [1935], 1938, from Phyllis Playter to John Cowper Powys's brother, Llewelyn (Lulu) Powys, which include Phyllis Playter's response to Llewelyn's work Damnable Opinions (1935). In 1938 Phyllis Playter is writing to Switzerland, where Llewelyn had removed for the sake of his health. Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir has added brief notes on ff. 1, 3.

Eighteen letters, 1928-1938, from Llewelyn Powys to his brother, John Cowper Powys, mainly concerning Llewelyn Powys's relationship with Gamel Woolsey and with his wife, Alyse Gregory, together with references to both Llewelyn's and John Cowper Powys's literary work.

Thirty-six letters, 1925-1936 and undated, from Llewelyn Powys to Phyllis Playter, relating mainly to Llewelyn Powys's relationship with Gamel Woolsey and with his wife, Alyse Gregory, with references also to Llewelyn's and John Cowper Powys's literary work.