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Forty-nine envelopes, 1924, 1938, 1940, 1943-1946, 1949-1951, 1953-1956, 1961-1962 and indiscernible/missing date, forty-seven of which are addressed to John Cowper Powys and the remaining two to Elwyn Evans (f. 48) and Marian Powys Grey (f. 49). The correspondents include Edgar Lee Masters (6), 1944-1945, Maurice Browne (6), 1945, 1949, 1951, 1953-1954 and missing postmark, [? Francis Llewellyn Powys] (6), 1955-1956, Alyse Gregory (1), 1961, Henry Miller (1), 1962, James Hanley (1), [?1962] and Gamel Woolsey (1), indiscernible date; ff. 27-49 are from unidentified correspondents. The contents of all envelopes have been removed. These items were purchased with the letters contained in NLW MSS 23500-23504C, 23505D and should be considered as part of that collection.

Photographs of Mary Cowper Powys's father the Rev. William Cowper Johnson and (enclosed in a photograph case) her mother Marianne Cowper Johnson, her [?cousins] Maria Theodora Johnson and Catherine Cowper Donne (née Johnson), and [?her maternal aunt Elizabeth Patteson], and a copper printing plate engraved with the name 'Miss Donne', with notes on the photographs in the hand of [Mary's daughter, Marian Powys].

Thirty letters, 1878-1889 and undated, to the Rev. Charles Francis Powys from his mother Amelia Powys. The letters contain mostly family news, including the birth of Charles and Mary Powys's second daughter Eleanor, who died in 1893 aged 13, and reflections on Charles's brother Major Littleton Albert Powys, following his death in August 1879. There are notes by [Amelia Powys's granddaughter Marian Powys] on ff. 38 verso, 44 verso and 49, and by Charles Francis Powys on ff. 33, 53 verso and 55. Enclosues comprise proposed memorial inscriptions for Amelia Powys and her husband the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys (ff. 52-54) and a card bearing Biblical verses (f. 73).

Letters to John Cowper Powys from his cousins Father Hamilton Johnson (7, one partial), 1925, 1930-1931, 1940 and undated, (together with two letters, 1944, 1950, from Father Johnson to John Cowper Powys's sister Marian Powys, and one letter, 1950, from Father Johnson to Helen Morgan), Warwick Gurney Powys (2), 1928, 1930 (including poetry by him), Ralph Shirley (6), 1936, 1940-1941, 1944, 1946, (together with a comment in verse on a poem by John Cowper Powys, with an inscription by the latter on f. 53, and a typed poem by Ralph Shirley), and Trevor Moilliet (2), 1952.

Letters to the Rev. Charles Francis Powys from his brother Major Littleton Albert Powys (2), 1854, [1872] (the death of their father the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys); his father-in law and former tutor William Cowper Johnson (3), 1866 (congratulations to Charles Francis Powys on his Cambridge success), [1872]; his prospective wife Mary Cowper Johnson (1), 1871 (Charles Francis Powys's transfer to Shirley and their forthcoming marriage); his maternal aunt Susanna Smith (3), [?1872], [1879] (congratulations on the birth of Charles and Mary Powys's second daughter Eleanor (who died in 1893 aged 13)), [1885] (congratulations on attaining the living of Montacute); his maternal aunt Louisa J. Moilliet (1), 1883 (an offer of the living of Burton-le-Coggles, Lincolnshire, with a note in Charles Francis Powys's hand on the envelope stating that he declined the offer 'at Mother's advice'); and his [?] sister Philippa F[rances] E[milia] Shirley (3), 1891 (regarding Charles Francis Powys's mother Amelia Powys's memorial at Stalbridge) (with a note on the envelope in the hand of [Marian Powys], daughter of Charles Francis Powys), 1892, 1901.

Twenty-eight letters, 1879 and undated, to Amelia Powys from her son, Major Littleton Albert Powys, the majority written whilst on military service in India and Afghanistan. The year in which they were written is omitted from all but one of the letters. Ff. 1-6 are accompanied by a note on their contents by [?Marian Powys, niece of Littleton Albert Powys], and there are also occasional notes in the hand of Amelia Powys.

Letters to John Cowper Powys from his sister Marian Powys.

Letters to Phyllis Playter from John Cowper Powys's sister, Marian Powys.

Letters to Mary Cowper Powys from the following correspondents: 'Uncle Cowper Hamilton's father' (1), 1869; her father the Rev. William Cowper Johnson (3), [1872], 1879, 1888; her mother Marianne Cowper Johnson (2), 1879 and undated; her husband the Rev. Charles Francis Powys (1), [1879]; her mother-in-law Amelia Powys (1), [1879]; her daughter-in-law Dorothy Mary Powys, wife of Albert Reginald (Bertie) Powys (1), 1905; and [?Norman], her old nurse at Yaxham (1), undated; together with a sheet of paper with a note on the letters [in Mary's daughter Marian Powys's hand]. There are notes by [Marian Powys] on ff. 4 verso, 7 verso and 22, and a note by Mary Cowper Powys on f. 14. The letters contain mostly family news, including the last illness and death of the Rev. Powys's brother Major Littleton Albert Powys. For the 'Mr Lake' referred to in the Rev. Powys's letter see 'Papers relating to Littleton Albert Powys'.

Letters to John Cowper Powys from his mother Mary Cowper Powys (1), 1914, his sister-in-law Violet Powys (wife of Theodore Francis Powys) (1) (partial), [c. 1915], his father the Reverend Charles Francis Powys (2), 1918, his sister-in-law Alyse Gregory (wife of Llewelyn Powys) (7), 1924-1925, 1929, 1939-1940, 1960, his brother Llewelyn Powys (4), 1925, 1927 and undated, his sister-in-law Mabel Powys (first wife of Littleton Charles Powys) (2), [1939] and undated, his sister Katie (Philippa) Powys (1 + 1 postcard), 1941, 1949; his sisters Gertrude Powys, Lucy Penny and 'Marz' [?Marian Powys] (1 telegram), 1942; his brother Littleton Charles Powys (1 telegram), [1942]; his sister Lucy Penny (1, with an enclosed letter from Lucy to Phyllis Playter) 1946; his companion Phyllis Playter (1), undated; his son Littleton Alfred Powys (1 [?Christmas card]), undated; and Ernest Angell (aka Peter Grey), father of Powys's nephew Peter Powys Grey (1), undated; also an envelope (contents removed) from his sister Marian Powys (1954).

Letters from John Cowper Powys to his sister Marian Powys and to his nephew, Peter Powys Grey, Marian's son.

Letters from Phyllis Playter to Reginald [?Pole], (1), [1933]; Ferner Nuhn and Ruth Suckow (7), 1934-1935, 1952, 1964 (photocopies); Huw Owen Williams (Huw Menai) and his wife Anne, (1), 1945 (photocopy); Rosemary Manning (draft letters), 1972; Harold A. Van Kirk, (1), 1974; and unknown recipients (incomplete letters, one of which (ff. 53-54 verso, 55 verso) includes notes by Marian Powys). Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir has added dates to some of the letters and there is a note in her hand attached to f. 1.

A memorial booklet for John Coleridge Patteson, bishop of Melanesia inscribed on the front cover by Mary Cowper Powys, below which a later inscription reads: 'to May from Gertrude June 1947' (i.e. Mary Cowper Powys's daughters May (Marian) and Gertrude Powys).

Printed poems inscribed to Charles Francis Powys, 24 March 1867; a printed representation of a manual alphabet for the deaf (with manuscript notes on dorse); a folio bearing a note in Charles Francis Powys's hand, with a small pencil drawing, possibly also by Charles Francis Powys; an envelope addressed to Charles Francis Powys, with a pencil note, possibly relating to a photograph or photographs, signed by 'MPG' [?his daughter Marian Powys [Grey]]; a note addressed to Charles Francis Powys from his mother Amelia Powys (unsigned); a copy of a poem entitled 'To the Water Lily' by the poet Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (Mrs Hemans) and a short passage on the Bible 'by Lord Shaftesbury'; lines based on Psalm 55 verse 6 by the Rev. Robert Grant, copied out by the Venerable S. [?]; and a pencil sketch apparently by Charles Francis Powys, with a related note and further sketches on the dorse.

Letters largely to and between various members of the Powys family, as follows: To Lucy Penny from her mother Mary Cowper Powys (5), 1911-1912, 1914; to Marian (May) Powys from her mother Mary Cowper Powys (1), [1914]; to Margaret Powys from her son Littleton Alfred Powys (1), 1926; to Gamel Woolsey from Mary (Molly) MacCarthy (1), undated, which refers to Gamel's then contentious work One Way of Love (1930) (with a note by Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir); to Gertrude Powys from [her brother Theodore Francis Powys], (3), 1941, 1946 and undated (typescript copies); to Gertrude Powys from her sister Lucy Penny (1 postcard), [1944]; to Marian Powys from 'E. R.' (1), 1947; to Peter Powys Grey from his mother Marian Powys (1), 1948; to Bernard O'Neill from Philippa (Katie) Powys (1), 1949 (photocopy); to Francis Llewellyn Powys from his cousin Littleton Alfred Powys (1 postcard), 1951; to Littleton [?Charles] Powys from an unnamed correspondent (the letter lacking a signature and appearing incomplete) (1), 1953; to George Frederick Sims from John Cowper Powys's nephew Francis Llewellyn Powys (1), 1958 (photocopy); to Alyse Gregory, widow of Llewelyn Powys, from Francis Llewellyn Powys (1), 1960; to Jill Olson from Katie Powys (1), 1961 (photocopy) (with note by Morine Krissdottir); to Lucy Penny from her sister Marian Powys (1), [1963]; to Lucy Penny from Powys biographer Marie Canavaggia (including a note to Phyllis Playter) (1), 1964; to Lucy Penny from her niece Isobel Powys Marks (1), 1966; to Lucy Penny from her niece Rose Dyer (1), 1969; to Lucy Penny from her nephew Gilfrid Powys (1), 1969; to Lucy Penny from her great-nephew Michael (2) and her great-niece Lucy (1), 1969; to Francis Llewellyn Powys from C. Benson Roberts (1), 1970; to John Cowper Powys's brother William Ernest (Willie) Powys from Agnes [ ? ] in Poland, enclosing a photograph [?from Adrian Upfield]) (1), 2002; together with undated letters to Alyse Gregory from Lucy Penny (1) and Ty (Barbara) Powys Grey (née Tyler), first wife of Peter Powys Grey (1), an undated letter to Bernard O'Neill from Lucy Penny (photocopy), and an undated postcard from Marian Powys to an unnamed recipient (on the dorse of which is a printed notice of an auction of some of Marian Powys's lacemaking stock upon her retirement). Included separately in an envelope are photographs of Marian Powys and Peter Powys Grey, [?1936], and an obituary of Gertrude Powys, [1952].

Papers, 1879, relating to the death and memorial of Major Littleton Albert Powys, comprising photos of him and a memorial text 'For Stalbridge Church' in the hand of his mother Amelia Powys; memorial cards of Littleton , with notes on dorse; a poem in honour of Littleton ; and a copy [in the hand of Charles Francis Powys] of a letter to Amelia Powys from Lieutenant Percy Lake, a friend of Littleton's, with a note on the contents [?in the hand of Littleton's niece Marian Powys].

An extract of a letter, 1825, written on the occasion of the death of the Rev. Littleton Powys, father of the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys, copied out in the latter's hand; the 'Last Blessing' of Maria Priscilla Powys, mother of the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys, 1832, copied out in the latter's hand, with a note on recto in the hand of Amelia Powys, mother of the Rev. Charles Francis Powys, and notes on dorse in the hands of the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys and Amelia Powys; and a letter, [18?67], to the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys from his son, Littleton Albert Powys, with a note on the envelope [by the latter's niece, Marian Powys].

Two poems written in Amelia Powys's hand, with a note on f. 4 by her husband, the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys; a printed memorial hymn for the Rev. John Keble (1792-1866), with the intials 'E[mily] (i.e. Amelia) P.' at top left-hand corner; a book of devotional passages inscribed to Amelia Powys from her sister, Susanna Smith, and dated 1834, with a later inscription, dated June 1928, to 'L. A. Powys' (presumably Father Littleton Alfred Powys, son of John Cowper Powys) from his aunt, Gertrude Powys, with devotional passages written out at the back of the volume by [Littleton Alfed Powys] and on the back cover by [Susanna Smith]; drawings and paintings by Amelia Powys (one inscribed 'Dearest Littleton Albert's ship' [in Amelia Powys's hand], one possibly depicting her grandson, John Cowper Powys, as an infant) and by her son, Charles Francis Powys, with notes by her granddaughter, Marian Powys; a dried pansy flower, with the inscription 'Charley' (i.e. Charles Francis Powys) [in Amelia Powys's hand]; and two letters from Amelia Powys to her mother, Amelia Moilliet, with a note dated May 1935 [by Amelia Powys's grandson, Littleton Charles Powys].

Miscellaneous personal papers of Major Littleton Albert Powys, comprising drawings and paintings, some of which depict military figures of different historical periods; a hunting song; and a letter, [1872], to Littleton from his mother Amelia Powys relating to the death of his father the Rev. Littleton Charles Powys; only two of the items are dated. The items bear inscriptions by Littleton (ff. 3 verso, 9 verso), his mother (ff. 1 verso [?], 6 verso, 11), [?and his niece Marian Powys] (ff. 2 verso, 7 verso).