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Thirteen letters and one telegram (announcing the birth of Marian's first grandchild), 1951, to John Cowper Powys from his sister Marian Powys, mostly containing news of family and friends, together with accounts of negotiations regarding the publishing of John Cowper Powys's novel Porius (published 1951) and references to Marian's own writing.

Thirteen letters, 1952, to John Cowper Powys from his sister Marian Powys, mostly containing news of family and friends, including the death of Marian's and John Cowper Powys's sister Gertrude Powys and references to Marian's writing and lacemaking work. Enclosures comprise two letters to Marian from the Reverend J. H. C. Johnson.

Sixteen letters, 1953, to John Cowper Powys from his sister Marian Powys, mostly containing news of family and friends, including the death of Marian's and John Cowper Powys's brother Theodore Francis Powys and of Minnie Playter, mother of Phyllis Playter, and the illness of John Cowper Powys's son Littleton Alfred Powys.

Sixteen letters and one telegram, 1954, to John Cowper Powys from his sister Marian Powys, mostly containing personal news and news of family and friends, including the death of John Cowper Powys's son Littleton Aflred Powys, the birth of Marian's second grandchild, and John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter's plans to move from Corwen. Enclosures comprise an ink drawing by Christopher, Marian's grandson.

Eight letters, 1957-1960, to John Cowper Powys from his sister Marian Powys, mostly containing family news, including an account of Marian's visit to Kenya during 1957-1958.

Fourteen letters, undated, to John Cowper Powys from his sister Marian Powys, containing mainly personal news and news of family and friends, including references to Marian's son Peter Powys Grey and Marian's response to John Cowper Powys's novel Morwyn (published 1937).

Twenty-two letters and three cards, 1916, [1925], 1927, 1931, 1945-1947, to John Cowper Powys from his wife Margaret Alice Powys (née Lyon), containing mostly personal and family news, some of the letters illustrated with ink drawings by Margaret; together with one enclosed letter to Margaret from a friend of her son Littleton Alfred Powys, and an undated letter to John Cowper Powys from his brother-in-law Thomas Henry Lyon.

Letters to John Cowper Powys from his cousins Father Hamilton Johnson (7, one partial), 1925, 1930-1931, 1940 and undated, (together with two letters, 1944, 1950, from Father Johnson to John Cowper Powys's sister Marian Powys, and one letter, 1950, from Father Johnson to Helen Morgan), Warwick Gurney Powys (2), 1928, 1930 (including poetry by him), Ralph Shirley (6), 1936, 1940-1941, 1944, 1946, (together with a comment in verse on a poem by John Cowper Powys, with an inscription by the latter on f. 53, and a typed poem by Ralph Shirley), and Trevor Moilliet (2), 1952.

Ten letters and one postcard, 1935-1938, 1940, 1945-1946, 1948, 1959 and undated, to John Cowper Powys from his nephew Peter Powys Grey, containing mostly personal news, including Peter Powys Grey's forthcoming marriage to Barbara ('Ty') Tyler. Some of the letters are illustrated with small drawings by Peter, including a plan of his room at Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire (f. 1 verso).

Four letters, 1918, 1922, 1925, to John Cowper Powys from his brother Albert Reginald (Bertie) Powys and three letters, [1935] and undated, from his brother William Ernest (Will) Powys, containing mostly personal and family news.

Fourteen letters, 1940-1962, to John Cowper Powys from Faith Powys (née Oliver), second wife of John Cowper Powys's brother Albert Reginald (Bertie) Powys. Enclosed with one letter is a note to John Cowper Powys from Faith Powys's son Oliver Powys, and there is a note to Phyllis Playter on the dorse of another letter. The letters contain mostly family news, including a proposed memorial for Bertie Powys at St Andrew's Church, Winterbourne Tomson, and one letter of 29 December 1940 vividly describes an air raid over their home in Cheltenham. The envelopes bear the names of the correspondents in the hand of Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir.

Nine letters and one Christmas card, 1947, 1949-1950, 1960, 1962 and undated, to John Cowper Powys from his nephew Oliver Powys, son of John Cowper Powys's brother Albert Reginald (Bertie) Powys, and one letter, 1960, to John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter from Oliver's twin sister Eleanor Powys. The letters contain mostly personal and family news. The envelopes bear notes in the hand of Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir.

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.

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.

Letters to John Cowper Powys from his niece Isobel Powys Marks (4), 1946, 1959-1960 (Isobel's reponse to John Cowper Powys's novel Homer and the Aether (1959)), his great-nephew Stephen Powys Marks (4), 1959, 1961 (the birth of Stephen's son Edward Stephen in 1961), and his great-niece Antonia Goldhill (née Powys Marks) (5 letters, 1 postcard), 1958-1959, 1961-1962 (personal and family news).

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, 1965-1970, to John Cowper Powys's sister Lucy Penny from Marie Canavaggia (2), 1965, 1968; Renée Canavaggia (2), 1965, 1970; Glen Cavaliero (3), 1967-1969; Alan Parkes (1), 1968; Dinah White, close friend of John Cowper Powys's son Littleton Alfred Powys (1), 1968; Tom Davies of Hamilton, N.Y. (1), 1970 (with a note by L[ucy] A[melia] P[enny]); Peggy Newman (1), 1970; and Rosemary Manning (1), 1970.

Letters largely to and between various members of the Powys family, as follows: To Lucy Penny from her mother Mary Cowper Powys (5), 1911-1912, 1914; to Marian (May) Powys from her mother Mary Cowper Powys (1), [1914]; to Margaret Powys from her son Littleton Alfred Powys (1), 1926; to Gamel Woolsey from Mary (Molly) MacCarthy (1), undated, which refers to Gamel's then contentious work One Way of Love (1930) (with a note by Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir); to Gertrude Powys from [her brother Theodore Francis Powys], (3), 1941, 1946 and undated (typescript copies); to Gertrude Powys from her sister Lucy Penny (1 postcard), [1944]; to Marian Powys from 'E. R.' (1), 1947; to Peter Powys Grey from his mother Marian Powys (1), 1948; to Bernard O'Neill from Philippa (Katie) Powys (1), 1949 (photocopy); to Francis Llewellyn Powys from his cousin Littleton Alfred Powys (1 postcard), 1951; to Littleton [?Charles] Powys from an unnamed correspondent (the letter lacking a signature and appearing incomplete) (1), 1953; to George Frederick Sims from John Cowper Powys's nephew Francis Llewellyn Powys (1), 1958 (photocopy); to Alyse Gregory, widow of Llewelyn Powys, from Francis Llewellyn Powys (1), 1960; to Jill Olson from Katie Powys (1), 1961 (photocopy) (with note by Morine Krissdottir); to Lucy Penny from her sister Marian Powys (1), [1963]; to Lucy Penny from Powys biographer Marie Canavaggia (including a note to Phyllis Playter) (1), 1964; to Lucy Penny from her niece Isobel Powys Marks (1), 1966; to Lucy Penny from her niece Rose Dyer (1), 1969; to Lucy Penny from her nephew Gilfrid Powys (1), 1969; to Lucy Penny from her great-nephew Michael (2) and her great-niece Lucy (1), 1969; to Francis Llewellyn Powys from C. Benson Roberts (1), 1970; to John Cowper Powys's brother William Ernest (Willie) Powys from Agnes [ ? ] in Poland, enclosing a photograph [?from Adrian Upfield]) (1), 2002; together with undated letters to Alyse Gregory from Lucy Penny (1) and Ty (Barbara) Powys Grey (née Tyler), first wife of Peter Powys Grey (1), an undated letter to Bernard O'Neill from Lucy Penny (photocopy), and an undated postcard from Marian Powys to an unnamed recipient (on the dorse of which is a printed notice of an auction of some of Marian Powys's lacemaking stock upon her retirement). Included separately in an envelope are photographs of Marian Powys and Peter Powys Grey, [?1936], and an obituary of Gertrude Powys, [1952].

Two letters, 1930, to John Cowper Powys from Phyllis Playter's father Franklin Playter.

Twelve letters, three postcards and one illustrated Christmas card, 1928, 1945-1946, 1951, 1954-1955, 1957 and undated, to John Cowper Powys from John Redwood Anderson, several of the letters containing comments on drafts of John Cowper Powys's novel Homer and the Aether (1959). Two of the letters contain poetry lately written by Anderson, and three of the letters include notes to John Cowper Powys and to Phyllis Playter by Anderson's wife Gwyneth. Also included is an inscribed photograph of Anderson (f. 4), an inscribed printed copy of Anderson's To the Dyfrdwy, the River I Love (London, 1951) (ff. 6-13), and a typed copy of a poem by Anderson entitled To John Cowper Powys: A Reply in Gratitude (ff. 54-56).