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A letter, 1949, from Theodore Francis Powys to his brother, John Cowper Powys; together with twenty-eight letters and cards, 1946-1979, to Gilbert Turner, mostly from members of the Powys family or from friends of John Cowper Powys, including John Cowper Powys's sister, Gertrude Powys (2), 1946-1948, his sister-in-law, Alyse Gregory (2), 1947-1949, his sister, Lucy Amelia Penny (13), 1952-1973, his niece, Isobel Powys Marks (1), 1973, Lucy's daughter, Mary Casey (1), 1952, Mary's husband, Gerard Casey (2), 1976-1979, and John Redwood Anderson (1), 1947.

Some three hundred and fifty letters, 1945-1969, from Gilbert Turner to John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter, which include references to the novelist Elena Puw Morgan, Welsh language and literature, visits to North Wales, the writer's procurement of library books for the recipients and the preparation of typescript copies of Powys's Dostoievsky (1947) and Rabelais (1948). Turner continued corresponding with Phyllis Playter after John Cowper Powys's death in 1963.