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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.

Thirty-eight letters and two postcards, 1940-1941, 1943, 1945-1949, 1951-1954, 1958, 1960, 1964-1966 and undated, to Phyllis Playter from John Cowper Powys's sister, Marian Powys. The letters contain mainly personal and family news, including the death of Phyllis Playter's mother, Minnie Playter (1953), and Marian's response to e.g. John Cowper Powys's Porius and a newly-published work by Gerald Brenan, probably The Lighthouse Always Says Yes (1966). One letter (f. 93) is illustrated with Marian Powys's ink drawings.

Letters to Phyllis Playter from 'cousin Marie' (1), 1926, and George H. Playter (1), [1953], the latter referring to the death of Phyllis Playter's mother, Minnie Playter. Together with one apparently incomplete photocopied letter, 1939, from an unknown correspondent in Kansas to an unnamed recipient.

Photocopies of sixty letters, 1948-1952, 1954, from John Cowper Powys to the poet Huw Menai (Huw Owen Williams), including two letters, 1952, dictated by John Cowper Powys to Phyllis Playter. The letters include references to works in progress, health matters, house-hunting in Blaenau Ffestiniog, and family news, including the death of Phyllis Playter's mother in 1953 and of Powys's son Littleton Alfred in 1954. Enclosed with one letter is a photocopy of a letter of invitation to an official lunch from the Mayor of Merthyr Tydfil to Huw Menai (f. 111). Some of the letters are illustrated with Powys's ink drawings, which include caricatures of himself and of Huw Menai, the latter sometimes depicted as a sea-serpent. Together with four poems by Huw Menai, one of which (dated 23rd February 1956) is dedicated to John Cowper Powys and includes notes on the poem.