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Thirty-three letters and one telegram, [?1916-?1918], 1917, 1931-1933 and undated, to John Cowper Powys from his sister Marian Powys, containing mostly news of family and friends, including the death of Phyllis Playter's father, Franklin Playter. Enclosures comprise two letters from Marian's son Peter Powys Grey to his uncle, John Cowper Powys.

Twenty-one letters, 1940-1941, to John Cowper Powys from his sister Marian Powys, mostly containing family news, especially of Marian's son Peter Powys Grey, including his academic successes and Marian's disclosure to him of his father's identity. There are also references to Marian's application to become an American citizen, and part of one letter, dated 30 June 1940, contains a statement by Marian relating to her assumption of custody of Faith Powys and her children and of Isobel Powys Marks's children.

Fourteen letters, undated, to John Cowper Powys from his sister Marian Powys, containing mainly personal news and news of family and friends, including references to Marian's son Peter Powys Grey and Marian's response to John Cowper Powys's novel Morwyn (published 1937).

Eighteen letters, 1942-1943, to John Cowper Powys from his sister Marian Powys, mostly containing personal and family news, especially of Marian's son Peter Powys Grey. Enclosures comprise one letter from Peter Powys Grey to Marian.

Thirteen letters and one postcard, 1935-1936 and undated, 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 Albert Reginald (Bertie) Powys in 1936. Enclosures comprise one letter from Marian's son Peter Powys Grey to his uncle John Cowper Powys, and one letter from Marian Powys to Louis Wilkinson in response to her reading of Wilkinson's forthcoming publication Welsh Ambassadors (1936).

Twenty-three letters, 1944-1945, to John Cowper Powys from his sister Marian Powys, mostly containing personal and family news, especially of Marian's son Peter Powys Grey, and of Marian's decision to close her New York lacemaking business. Enclosures comprise one letter to John Cowper Powys from Reginald Pole.

Letters to Phyllis Playter from Mabel Powys, first wife of Littleton Charles Powys (1), [1940] (with a short note from Littleton Charles Powys); John Cowper Powys's sister, Philippa (Katie) Powys (8), [1945], [1948], 1957, 1960 (one letter, 1960, containing a note from Katie's sister, Lucy Penny; Isobel Powys Marks, daughter of John Cowper Powys's brother, Albert Reginald (Bertie) Powys (13 letters and 2 postcards), 1946, 1949, 1959, 1963, 1964, 1971 and undated; Lucy Penny's daughter, Mary Casey (16 letters and 2 postcards), 1949, 1953, 1958-1963, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1972 (reference to scattering John Cowper Powys's ashes on Chesil Beach and the death of Llewelyn Powys's wife, Alyse Gregory), and Mary's husband, Gerard (1), [?1980] (refers to the death of Mary Casey); John Cowper Powys's niece, Eleanor Powys (1), 1949; John Cowper Powys's son, Littleton Alfred Powys (1), 1949 (enclosing four photographs of Littleton Alfred, one taken with John Cowper Powys, and three of which are inscribed by Littleton Alfred Powys, with a note by Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir on f. 51) and an undated photograph of St Dominic's Church, Dursley, Gloucestershire, inscribed on the dorse by Littleton Alfred; John Cowper Powys's brother, Littleton Charles Powys (1), 1949; Stephen Powys Marks, son of Isobel (1), 1959; John Cowper Powys's sister-in-law, Faith Powys (4), 1962, 1963, 1967; Marian Powys's son, Peter Powys Grey (2), 1963, 1966; Antonia Goldhill, daughter of Isobel (4), 1963 and undated); John Francis Cowper Powys, grandson of Theodore Francis Powys (3 letters and 1 postcard), 1967, 1971, 1972 (references to his marriage and including ink drawings illustrating his new home and possessions, and mention of the death of Violet Powys, John's grandmother); John Cowper Powys's brother, William Ernest (Willie) Powys (1), 1967; and Theodore Francis Powys's daughter-in-law, Sally Powys, wife of Francis Llewellyn Powys (5), 1967, 1978, 1980 and undated.

Ten letters and one postcard, 1935-1938, 1940, 1945-1946, 1948, 1959 and undated, to John Cowper Powys from his nephew Peter Powys Grey, containing mostly personal news, including Peter Powys Grey's forthcoming marriage to Barbara ('Ty') Tyler. Some of the letters are illustrated with small drawings by Peter, including a plan of his room at Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire (f. 1 verso).

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

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].