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Ten letters (one incomplete), four telegrams and seven postcards, 1948-1949, 1952-1955 and undated, to John Cowper Powys from his brother Littleton Charles Powys, mostly containing personal and family news. One of the telegrams informs of the death of Littleton's and John Cowper Powys's sister Gertrude in 1952 (with enclosed obituary), the remainder announcing the success of Littleton's eye surgery. There is also an enclosed poem by Myra Reeve, dated February 1954. Two of the envelopes (ff. 19 and 32) have been inscribed by John Cowper Powys.

Photocopies of one hundred and thirty letters (including one partial letter), 1953-1955, from John Cowper Powys to his brother Littleton Charles Powys, containing mostly personal news and reflections. There are references to John Cowper Powys's novels Atlantis (1954) and The Brazen Head ("my Roger Bacon book") (1956), and to his plans to move to Blaenau Ffestiniog (with subsequent descriptions of 1 Waterloo), as well as mention of Littleton's health, the health of John's son Littleton Alfred and of Phyllis Playter's mother Minnie, and the last illness and death of John and Littleton's brother Theodore Francis Powys in 1953. Some of the letters are illustrated with John Cowper Powys's ink drawings, which include self-caricatures and representations of plants. Enclosed with one letter is a photocopy of a poem by Marjorie [?Yilden] entitled 'Need' (f. 273).