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- 1940-1981 (Creation)
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135 ff. (1 folder)
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Letters to Phyllis Playter from Mabel Powys, first wife of Littleton Charles Powys (1), [1940] (with a short note from Littleton Charles Powys); John Cowper Powys's sister, Philippa (Katie) Powys (8), [1945], [1948], 1957, 1960 (one letter, 1960, containing a note from Katie's sister, Lucy Penny; Isobel Powys Marks, daughter of John Cowper Powys's brother, Albert Reginald (Bertie) Powys (13 letters and 2 postcards), 1946, 1949, 1959, 1963, 1964, 1971 and undated; Lucy Penny's daughter, Mary Casey (16 letters and 2 postcards), 1949, 1953, 1958-1963, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1972 (reference to scattering John Cowper Powys's ashes on Chesil Beach and the death of Llewelyn Powys's wife, Alyse Gregory), and Mary's husband, Gerard (1), [?1980] (refers to the death of Mary Casey); John Cowper Powys's niece, Eleanor Powys (1), 1949; John Cowper Powys's son, Littleton Alfred Powys (1), 1949 (enclosing four photographs of Littleton Alfred, one taken with John Cowper Powys, and three of which are inscribed by Littleton Alfred Powys, with a note by Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir on f. 51) and an undated photograph of St Dominic's Church, Dursley, Gloucestershire, inscribed on the dorse by Littleton Alfred; John Cowper Powys's brother, Littleton Charles Powys (1), 1949; Stephen Powys Marks, son of Isobel (1), 1959; John Cowper Powys's sister-in-law, Faith Powys (4), 1962, 1963, 1967; Marian Powys's son, Peter Powys Grey (2), 1963, 1966; Antonia Goldhill, daughter of Isobel (4), 1963 and undated); John Francis Cowper Powys, grandson of Theodore Francis Powys (3 letters and 1 postcard), 1967, 1971, 1972 (references to his marriage and including ink drawings illustrating his new home and possessions, and mention of the death of Violet Powys, John's grandmother); John Cowper Powys's brother, William Ernest (Willie) Powys (1), 1967; and Theodore Francis Powys's daughter-in-law, Sally Powys, wife of Francis Llewellyn Powys (5), 1967, 1978, 1980 and undated.
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Arranged chronologically within each series of letters.
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Usual copyright laws apply.
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English.
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- St Dominic (Church : Dursley, England) -- Photographs (Subject)
- Powys, Littleton A. -- Photographs (Subject)
- Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963 -- Photographs (Subject)
- Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963 -- Death and burial (Subject)
- Gregory, Alyse, 1884-1967 -- Death and burial (Subject)
- Casey, Mary, 1915-1980 -- Death and burial (Subject)
- Powys, John Francis Cowper -- Marriage (Subject)
- Powys, Violet Rosalie, d. 1966 -- Death and burial (Subject)
- Powys, Mabel (Subject)
- Casey, Mary, 1915-1980 (Subject)
- Casey, Gerard, Timau, Kenya (Subject)
- Powys, Littleton A. (Subject)
- Powys, Philippa (Subject)
- Penny, Lucy Amelia, 1890-1986 (Subject)
- Powys, John Francis Cowper (Subject)
- Powys, William Ernest, 1888-1978 (Subject)
- Powys, Sally, 1910-1993 (Subject)
- Marks, Isobel Powys (Subject)
- Powys, Littleton, 1874-1955 (Subject)
- Grey, Peter Powys, 1922-1992 (Subject)
- Krissdottir, Morine (Subject)
- Powys, Faith, 1897-1985 (Subject)
- Powys, Mary Eleanor Cowper, 1931-1998 (Subject)
- Marks, Stephen Powys (Subject)
- Goldhill, Antonia (Subject)
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Description compiled by Bethan Ifan.