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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).

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 letters and one telegram, 1937-1939, to John Cowper Powys from his sister Marian Powys, mostly containing news of family and friends, including the deaths of Marian's and John Cowper Powys's brother Llewelyn Powys and of John Cowper Powys's aged dog (both in 1939), and the death of John Cowper Powys's publisher and tour manager G. Arnold Shaw in 1937. Enclosures comprise one letter to Marian from Howard Cox and a watercolour drawing by Marian of a holiday cabin at Mount Desert, Maine.

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.

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.

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.

Twenty-three letters and one [?]incomplete letter, 1946, to John Cowper Powys from his sister Marian Powys, mostly containing personal and family news, with references to the death of novelist and journalist Theodore Dreiser in 1945. Enclosures comprise one letter from Marian to 'Miss Pritchett' relating to Reginald Pole's rôle in a production of a play by John Cowper Powys (possibly Paddock Calls (1922)), and one letter [to John Cowper Powys] from Anne Gale Hyde.

Twenty-two letters (one [?]incomplete), one postcard and one telegram, 1947, to John Cowper Powys from his sister Marian Powys, containing mostly personal and family news, including the death of Margaret, wife of John Cowper Powys.

Twenty letters, 1948, to John Cowper Powys from his sister Marian Powys, containing mostly personal and family news, including the relationship and subsequent marriage of Marian's son Peter Powys Grey and Barbara Tyler (Ty). Enclosures comprise one letter to Phyllis Playter from Marian.

Letters to John Cowper Powys from his wife Margaret Alice Powys, his brothers Llewelyn, Bertie and Will Powys, his sisters-in-law Alyse Gregory and Faith Powys, his companion Phyllis Playter, his nephew Peter Powys Grey and various cousins.

Twenty-two letters and three cards, 1916, [1925], 1927, 1931, 1945-1947, to John Cowper Powys from his wife Margaret Alice Powys (née Lyon), containing mostly personal and family news, some of the letters illustrated with ink drawings by Margaret; together with one enclosed letter to Margaret from a friend of her son Littleton Alfred Powys, and an undated letter to John Cowper Powys from his brother-in-law Thomas Henry Lyon.

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 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.

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).

Four letters, 1918, 1922, 1925, to John Cowper Powys from his brother Albert Reginald (Bertie) Powys and three letters, [1935] and undated, from his brother William Ernest (Will) Powys, containing mostly personal and family news.

Fourteen letters, 1940-1962, to John Cowper Powys from Faith Powys (née Oliver), second wife of John Cowper Powys's brother Albert Reginald (Bertie) Powys. Enclosed with one letter is a note to John Cowper Powys from Faith Powys's son Oliver Powys, and there is a note to Phyllis Playter on the dorse of another letter. The letters contain mostly family news, including a proposed memorial for Bertie Powys at St Andrew's Church, Winterbourne Tomson, and one letter of 29 December 1940 vividly describes an air raid over their home in Cheltenham. The envelopes bear the names of the correspondents in the hand of Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir.

Nine letters and one Christmas card, 1947, 1949-1950, 1960, 1962 and undated, to John Cowper Powys from his nephew Oliver Powys, son of John Cowper Powys's brother Albert Reginald (Bertie) Powys, and one letter, 1960, to John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter from Oliver's twin sister Eleanor Powys. The letters contain mostly personal and family news. The envelopes bear notes in the hand of Powys biographer Morine Krissdottir.

Sixteen letters and one postcard, 1939-1961 and undated, to John Cowper Powys from his niece Mary Casey's husband Gerard, who addresses John Cowper Powys as 'dear God-Uncle'. The letters contain mostly personal and family news.

Twenty-two letters and one postcard, 1944, 1946-1947, 1949, 1952-1953, 1957-1960, to John Cowper Powys from his niece Mary Casey, daughter of Lucy Penny. The letters mostly contain personal and family news, with references also to the deaths of novelist and journalist Theodore Dreiser in 1945 (f. 8) and of Joan Lambert Wilkinson, wife of the writer Louis Wilkinson (f. 39), in 1957, Mary's husband Gerard Casey's ill-health in 1959 (ff. 42-46 verso), and Gerard and Mary's response to John Cowper Powys's novel Homer and the Aether (1959) (f. 44). One letter includes a note to John Cowper Powys from Gerard Casey (f. 16-verso). Enclosed with one letter (ff. 27-32) are photographs of Gerard Casey and Mary's uncle William (Willie) Powys and his sons Gilfrid and Charles Powys and of scenes of rural life in Kenya.

Letters to John Cowper Powys from his niece Isobel Powys Marks (4), 1946, 1959-1960 (Isobel's reponse to John Cowper Powys's novel Homer and the Aether (1959)), his great-nephew Stephen Powys Marks (4), 1959, 1961 (the birth of Stephen's son Edward Stephen in 1961), and his great-niece Antonia Goldhill (née Powys Marks) (5 letters, 1 postcard), 1958-1959, 1961-1962 (personal and family news).