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Booklets containing twenty-five sermons, dated March-December 1894 with later revisions and notes to 1917, in the hand of the Rev. C. F. Powys, Vicar of Montacute; the booklets are numbered 842-869, with gaps. Four further sermons, dated 1895, 1904 and 1910 (2 ff. each), are also included.

Papers, 1947-2005, of Louise de Bruin relating to the poet and artist Vera Stacey Wainwright (1893-1967), resident of Mappowder and friend of T. F. Powys. The papers include a copy of Vera Wainwright and Austin O. Spare, Poems and Masks (St Peter Port, 1968); letters, 1998-2005, including Louise de Bruin's correspondence with Vera's niece April Parks, New South Wales, 2000; photographs of Vera, etc., 1947-2000, and reproductions of a painting of her by H. Lawrence; photocopies, [c. 2000], of letters, Vera's will and codicils (dated 1947-1963), her articles on Robert Harborough Sherard in The Literary Repository (1966-1968), etc.; manuscript copies of the poems 'A Melancholy of Ancient Bells' by Vera and 'Mockery Gap' by Mary Casey; and an engraving by Vera entitled 'A Mountain Road Corsica'.

Over 3500 letters, [c. 1890]-1986, addressed to Lucy Penny, comprising 755 from her parents and siblings, [c. 1890]-1976; some 2378 from her daughter Mary Casey, 1926-1977; and 414 from other family members, her siblings's wives and partners, friends and miscellaneous acquaintances, 1901-1986, including 185 from Phyllis Playter, 1935-1980.

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.

Some three hundred and forty-three letters and cards, 1922-1953 (mostly 1926, 1945-1953), from Lucy Penny to her daughter Mary Casey, containing personal and family news, together with occasional enclosures such as press cuttings, textile swatches, pressed flowers and family letters; from October 1946, when Mary and Gerard Casey settled in Kenya, the majority of the letters are air letters.
The enclosed correspondence comprises thirteen letters addressed to Lucy from Phyllis Playter, 16 October 1945 (postcard), Littleton [C.] Powys, 5 June 1950, 8 and 24 April 1953, John Cowper Powys, 20 July 1950, [13] October 1951, Willie Powys, 26 July and 4 [?August] 1950, Katie Powys, 28 October 1951, 21 August 1953, Marian Powys, 16 November 1952, 1 March 1953, and Littleton Alfred Powys, 10 February 1953; and six letters to Mary from Katie Powys, 27 March 1947, 22 October and 26 November 1949, 8 January and 16 April 1950, and Gertrude Powys, 16 April 1950. Also included are one air letter each to Mary Casey from Alyse Gregory, Nellie S. Hounsell and G. Hunt, all March-April 1949.

Four hundred and forty letters, 1923-1996, addressed to Mary or Gerald Casey, consisting of (i) one hundred and forty-seven letters, 1923-1972, to Mary Casey from correspondents including her grandmother Mary Jane Penny (23), 1923-1931, Gertrude Shackleton (10), 1944-1969, Valentine Ackland (54), 1966-1969 (mainly 1969), Monica Blake (10), 1939-1964, Patrick Casey, her brother-in-law (2), 1953-1956, Nellie S. Hounsell (5), 1945-1955, her grandfather Rowland Penny (2), 1931-1932, Barbara Kerr (1), 1973, and Vera Wainwright (2), 1956; (ii) seventy-six letters, 1939-1996, to Gerard Casey from the Powys family: John Cowper Powys (6), 1939-1949, Marian Powys Grey (1), [?1965], Katie Powys (26), 1946-1962, William Powys (14), 1946-1969, Lucy Penny (10), 1945-1960, Alyse Gregory (3), 1951-1962, Phyllis Playter (6), 1947-1971, Rose Dyer (1), 1986, Eleanor Walton (2), 1986, 1996, Peter Powys Grey (2), 1969 and [n.d.], Anthony (Tony) Dyer (1), 1986, Gilfrid Powys (3), 1986, and Mary Barham Johnson (1), 1986; and (iii) two hundred and seventeen letters, 1943-1996, to Gerard Casey from other correspondents including his mother Margaret Casey (156, mainly addressed to him and Mary, with eight addressed to Mary only), 1943-1975, John Redwood Anderson (5), 1946-1962, Timothy Hyman (3), 1975-1985, Jeremy Hooker (4), 1972-1986, Glen Cavaliero (5), 1974-1987, Kathleen Raine (10), [1970s]-1986, Kim [Taplin] (2 postcards), 1986 and [n.d.], Roland Mathias (2), 1976, Alan Clodd (1), 1975, Iorwerth Peate (1), 1974, Jack Clemo (1), 1986, Oliver [Marlow Wilkinson] (2), 1986-1987, Rosemary Manning (1), 1975, G[eorge Richard] Wilson-Knight (3), 1971-1977, David Blamires (1), 1972, and Gertrude Shackleton (2), [?1973], 1986.

Five letters, October 1953-April 1954, from Gerard Casey to his brother Patrick Casey mainly concerning their differing attitudes to religion and to the Roman Catholic church in particular.
The letters were published in Gerard Casey, Night Horizons (Ghent, NY, 1997), pp. 25-103.

Four hundred and sixty-seven letters, [c. 1860]-1980, from members of the Powys family to other family members (the eleven siblings excepted), spouses and partners and friends, comprising: (i) nine letters, [?1870s]-[1912], to C. F. Powys, at least one from each of his six sons, with three from John Cowper Powys; (ii) sixty-two letters, 1879-1914, to Mary Cowper Powys from C. F. Powys (1), [c. 1900], her children John (18), [c. 1882]-1914, Littleton (2), [c. 1880]-1906, Theodore (22), [c. 1880]-1909, Gertrude (2), 1888, 1891, Eleanor (1), [?1891], Albert (2), 1904-1905, Llewelyn (5), 1892-1911, and William (3), 1904-1914, her mother Amelia Powys (1), 1885, and other relatives (6), 1879-1913; (iii) five letters, [c. 1860]-1926, to various Johnson relatives; (iv) one letter, 1911, from Mary Cowper Powys to Mary Penny, Lucy's mother-in-law; (v) one letter, [n.d.], from Lucy Penny to Margaret Casey, Mary's mother-in-law; (vi) one letter, 1929, to Alice Mabel Powys from her husband Littleton C. Powys; (vii) one letter, [1920s], to Violet Powys from Gertrude Powys; (viii) one hundred and twenty-two letters, 1941-1967, to Alyse Gregory, including one hundred and eighteen from Mary Casey; (ix) seventeen letters, 1938-1954, to Phyllis Playter from Lucy Penny (5), 1945-1948, Elizabeth Powys (née Cross) (3), 1948-1953, Mary Casey (6), 1949-1953, and others; (x) ten letters, 1911-1938, to Hounsell Penny from his wife Lucy Penny (7), 1911-1938, and Llewelyn Powys (3), 1936 and [n.d.]; (xi) one letter, 1910, to Isobel Powys from her father A. R. Powys; (xii) one letter, 1953, to Gilfrid and Charles Powys from their father William Powys; (xiii) fifteen letters, 1951-1965 to Valentine Ackland, including twelve, [n.d.] from Lucy Penny; (xiv) two hundred and eighteen letters, 1946-1980, to Gertrude Shackleton (née Jeffreys) from her friend Mary Casey; with (xv) three letters, 1901-1967, to other friends and acquaintances.

Photocopies, [20 cent., last ¼], of eleven letters from John Cowper Powys to various recipients, comprising a letter, [June 1894], to [W. A. J.] Archbold, requesting a lecturing post (see Stuart Marriott and Janet Coles, 'John Cowper Powys as University Extension Lecturer, 1898-1909', Powys Journal, 4 (1994), 7-50 (pp. 8, 36-37)) (2 photographs); a letter to Phyllis Playter, [16 November 1929]; a list of the characters in A Glastonbury Romance, sent to Marian Powys, 28 May 1931; a letter to Ella Young, 29 May 1933; a letter to Marian Powys, 15 March 1936 (2 copies); five letters to Béla Hamvas of Budapest, Hungary, with one to his wife Katalin Kemény, 1946-1947 (see John Cowper Powys and Katalin Kemény, 'Six Letters to Béla Hamvas and Katalin Kemény', Powys Journal, 3 (1993), 157-176); and a letter to Katie Powys, [n.d.] (from the original at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin).
Also included are typescript extracts from ten letters from John Cowper Powys to Frances Gregg and Louis Wilkinson, dated 22 August-1 September 1912 (probably relating to the preparation of The Letters of John Cowper Powys to Frances Gregg, ed. by Oliver Marlow Wilkinson and Christopher Wilkinson, 2 vols (London, 1994-1996)).

Papers, 1838-2023, mainly of Lucy Penny and Mary Casey, comprising manuscripts and papers, 1838-2005, relating mostly to John Cowper Powys and the Powys family; over seven thousand letters, [c. 1860]-[20 cent., last ¼], comprising correspondence of Lucy Penny, Mary and Gerald Casey and members of the Powys and related families; and catalogues describing the collection, 2012-2023.

Some four hundred and fifty-six letters and cards, 1926-1953 (mostly 1926-1927, 1945-1947, 1949-1953), from Mary Casey (Mary Penny before 1945) to her mother Lucy Penny, containing personal and family news, together with occasional enclosures such as press cuttings and textile swatches; from October 1946, when Mary and Gerard Casey settled in Kenya, the majority of the letters are air letters.
A single letter, 15 December 1953, from Gerard Casey to Lucy is also included, as is Lucy’s correspondence with White & Co., Southampton, February-March 1947, re. transporting some of her furniture to Kenya.

Some six hundred and seventy-one air letters, letters and postcards, 1966-1977, from Mary Casey, Timau, Kenya, to her mother Lucy Penny, containing personal and family news, and occasionally enclosing letters from family and friends, photographs and press cuttings.
The enclosed correspondence comprises six letters addressed to Mary from correspondents including Katey [Grey], 1970-1971, and Peter [Powys Grey], 1974, and three to Lucy Penny, including one from Phyllis Playter, 13 February 1970. Towards the end of this period Mary and Gerard Casey were spending more time in the UK, prior to returning permanently.

Manuscripts, papers and catalogues, 1838-2023, relating to the Powys family.

Seven manuscript poems, 1893-1897 and [n.d.], by John Cowper Powys, including a poem on the death of his sister Eleanor (Nelly), dated 20 April 1893 (f. 3), and fragments of 'Penglog – Baban y Gawr' (ff. 10-12); together with a map of the landscape of Porius drawn by Powys in a letter to his sister Gertrude, [c. 1950] (f. 13), a photocopy of an inscription by Powys to Muriel Creighton Balfour, 1960 (f. 14), and typed copies, dated 1933 and 1972, of two poems (ff. 15-17).

Galley proofs, [?1970s], of nine articles by John Cowper Powys, first published 1923-1955, possibly intended for an unidentified collected edition and apparently part of an incomplete numbering sequence. The articles are 'The Crime Wave in Fiction', [first published 1929] (foliated 1-3), 'Race and Literature', [1923] (ff. 23-26), 'Marcel Proust', [1924] (ff. 27-28), 'Children of Adam', [1927] (ff. 37-38), 'Thomas Hardy and His Times', [1928] (ff. 41), 'The Charms of Solitude', [1932] (f. 55), 'England Revisited' (incomplete), [1935] (ff. 69-72), 'Dorset – Homeliest County', [1941] (ff. 80-82), and part of an essay on Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, [1955] (ff. 130-135).
Also included are photocopies of the articles 'Lecturing on Books' (The Publishers' Weekly, 22 March 1930, pp. 1655-1659) and 'My First Publication' (Mark Twain Quarterly, 9.2 (Winter 1952), 22-23) and the poems 'The Last Man' and 'Sonnet written in Sweffling Churchyard (1899)'.

Typescript copies of Raymond Garlick's 'Poem for a Neighbour: For John Cowper Powys' (taken from the Dublin Magazine) (3 ff.); a dissertation, 'A Man of Many Masks: John Cowper Powys's Autobiography in the Light of the Letters to His Brother Llewelyn', [1984x1986] (46 ff.), and a lecture, 'A Man of Many Masks: Powys's Autobiography and the Letters to His Brother Llewelyn', 1986 (ii, 12 ff.), both by Margaret Woolf; and 'John Cowper Powys: The Man and His Books – As seen by himself, his family and his friends', compiled by Frederick Davies (40 ff.); together with photocopies of three articles or book chapters in Dutch concerning John Cowper Powys, comprising: Simon Vestdijk, 'Een geval van religieus materialisme' (from an unspecified edition of his Zuiverende kroniek (first published 1956), pp. 21-59), a chapter of Willem Brakman, De jojo van de lezer: Essays (Amsterdam, 1985) (pp. 106-123) and Gerben Wynia, 'John Cowper Powys, Een Queeste' (from Maatstaf, 3 (1989), 65-80).

Copies of 'A Catalogue of the Powys Collection at Mappowder' (273 ff.) and 'A Checklist of the Casey Collection at Mappowder' (15 ff.), both compiled in 2012 by Peter J. Foss, listing between them the entirety of the papers, books, photographs, etc., of Lucy Penny and Mary Casey then in the possession of Louise de Bruin in Mappowder, Dorset.
Not all of the papers listed were offered for sale in 2023 or were then purchased by the National Library of Wales; large parts of those that were have been completely reordered. Consequently the catalogues are not a reliable guide to the contents of the archive now at NLW; they are nevertheless included as a snapshot of the entire Collection in its previous home, for the additional information they contain concerning the letters and for details of material not at the NLW. Also included is a copy of the Dominic Winter auction catalogue for 13-14 December 2023, listing the Mappowder Powys Collection (lots 672-687).

Over seven thousand letters, [c. 1860]-[20 cent., last ¼], comprising correspondence of Lucy Penny, Mary and Gerald Casey and members of the Powys and related families.

Some two hundred and forty-nine air letters, letters and postcards, 1945-1978, from Gerard Casey, mostly in Kenya, to his wife Mary, together with occasional enclosures such as photographs and press cuttings.

Some 880 letters, mostly from the Powys family, [c. 1860]-1980, addressed to other members of the Powys and related families, and to family friends Gertrude Shackleton and Valentine Ackland; together with photocopies, [20 cent., last ¼], of John Cowper Powys letters to various recipients.