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Letters to John Cowper Powys's sister Lucy Penny and sister-in-law Alyse Gregory, widow of Llewelyn Powys, from various friends and acquaintances; and miscellaneous Powys family letters.

Letters, 1940, 1960-1961, to John Cowper Powys's sister-in-law Alyse Gregory, widow of Llewelyn Powys, from Sara Bard Field (1), 1940; John [ ? ] (1), 1960; Edward Ernest Bissell (1), 1960; and Donald [ ? ] (1), 1961.

Letters, 1965-1970, to John Cowper Powys's sister Lucy Penny from Marie Canavaggia (2), 1965, 1968; Renée Canavaggia (2), 1965, 1970; Glen Cavaliero (3), 1967-1969; Alan Parkes (1), 1968; Dinah White, close friend of John Cowper Powys's son Littleton Alfred Powys (1), 1968; Tom Davies of Hamilton, N.Y. (1), 1970 (with a note by L[ucy] A[melia] P[enny]); Peggy Newman (1), 1970; and Rosemary Manning (1), 1970.

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].

Letters to John Cowper Powys from friends and acquaintances, including John Redwood Anderson, E. H. Visiak, Edgar Lee Masters, Gamel Woolsey and Huw Menai; together with envelopes addressed to John Cowper Powys, mostly from Gilbert Turner, the contents of the envelopes having been removed.

Letters to John Cowper Powys from the poet John Redwood Anderson. Many of the letters contain Anderson's comments on drafts of John Cowper Powys's novel Homer and the Aether (1959).

Twelve letters, three postcards and one illustrated Christmas card, 1928, 1945-1946, 1951, 1954-1955, 1957 and undated, to John Cowper Powys from John Redwood Anderson, several of the letters containing comments on drafts of John Cowper Powys's novel Homer and the Aether (1959). Two of the letters contain poetry lately written by Anderson, and three of the letters include notes to John Cowper Powys and to Phyllis Playter by Anderson's wife Gwyneth. Also included is an inscribed photograph of Anderson (f. 4), an inscribed printed copy of Anderson's To the Dyfrdwy, the River I Love (London, 1951) (ff. 6-13), and a typed copy of a poem by Anderson entitled To John Cowper Powys: A Reply in Gratitude (ff. 54-56).

Seventeen letters, 1958, to John Cowper Powys from John Redwood Anderson, several of which contain comments on John Cowper Powys's novel Homer and the Aether (1959), and three of which include notes to John Cowper Powys and to Phyllis Playter from Anderson's wife Gwyneth Anderson. Enclosures comprise a letter to John Cowper Powys from Gwyneth Anderson, typed copies of poems by John and Gwyneth Redwood Anderson, and a typed copy of a translation by John Redwood Anderson of No XXVI of Les Heures d'Après-midi by Emile Verhaeren. There are notes in John Cowper Powys's hand on f. 77 verso. Also included are typescript drafts (ff. 78-82) of part of John Cowper Powys's novel Homer and the Aether (1959), together with a typescript copy of Anderson's own prose translation of Chapter III of Homer's Iliad (ff. 83-90).

Ten letters, 1959-1961, to John Cowper Powys from John Redwood Anderson, one of which includes Anderson's response to John Cowper Powys's novel A Glastonbury Romance (1933) and one of which includes a note to John Cowper Powys from Anderson's wife Gwyneth Anderson. Also included are typed and printed copies of Anderson's poem The Two Dandelions (ff. 8-10).

Three letters, 1962-1963, to John Cowper Powys from John Redwood Anderson, one of which includes a note to Phyllis Playter from Anderson's wife Gwyneth. Enclosures comprise one letter from Anderson to Phyllis Playter and typed copies of poems by Gwyneth Redwood Anderson (f. 15). Also included are advertising flyers (ff. 1-3) for Anderson's book While the Fates Allow (1962), a typescript English translation of Iorwerth Peate's review of While the Fates Allow (published in Y Cymro, 10 August 1962) (ff. 7-9), a letter, 1963 (ff. 16-verso), from Anderson to Gerard [ ? ] following the death of John Cowper Powys, and two photographs (ff. 17-18) of Anderson.

Letters to John Cowper Powys from the Milton scholar and fantasy writer E. H. Visiak (Edward Harold Physick).

Sixteen letters and one postcard, 1943, 1945-1948, 1950, 1953, to John Cowper Powys from the Milton scholar and fantasy writer E. H. Visiak (Edward Harold Physick), containing mostly discussions of his own and others' works. Also included are an inscribed copy of Visiak's pamphlet The Animus Against Milton (Derby, 1945), an inscribed press review by Visiak of A. J. A. Waldock's Paradise Lost and its Critics (1947), an inscribed card (undated) bearing a signed ink drawing by Visiak, and a Christmas card (undated) containing signed poems by Visiak.

Carbon copies of typed letters to John Cowper Powys from the poet Edgar Lee Masters.

Carbon copies of one hundred and twenty-three typed letters (three of which are incomplete), 1916-1919, 1922-1923, 1927-1946 and undated, to John Cowper Powys from the poet Edgar Lee Masters, containing mostly discussions of Masters's own and others' writings and his responses to John Cowper Powys's works, with a reference also to the death of John Cowper Powys's brother Llewelyn Powys in 1939. Some of the copies bear annotations in Phyllis Playter's hand. Also included is a press cutting, dated 24 August 1949, relating to Masters's eightieth birthday and a list of crossed-out dates - probably relating to the sending or receipt of letters - in Phyllis Playter's hand.

Letters to John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter from Marie Canavaggia, French translator of the works of John Cowper Powys.

Twelve letters and two postcards, [?1956], 1958-1963, to John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter from Marie Canavaggia, French translator of the works of John Cowper Powys. Most of the letters contain discussion of John Cowper Powys's works and there is a reference to the death of John Cowper Powys's sister Philippa (Katie) Powys in January 1963.

Letters to John Cowper Powys from various friends and acquaintances, including Ichiro Hara, Huw Menai Williams, Angus Wilson and Gamel Woolsey.

Letters to John Cowper Powys arranged alphabetically, A-E. The correspondents are as follows: Tetsuo Akiyama (5), 1961-1964 + 1 undated Christmas card.; Margaret Armstrong (1), 1953; Avice Maud Bowbyes (1), 1960 (reference to the death of the novelist, poet and playwright Reginald Hunter); Nellie Browne (1), [1920s]; Adrian Bury (2), 1946; A. B. Clinkscales (1), 1957; Benjamin De Casseres (1), 1937; Helen Dreiser (1) ([?]incomplete), undated; P. [?W.] Drinkwater, of the Home Office (1), 1937; Malcolm Elwin (2), 1944, 1960; and Emily, family nurse (1), undated.

Letters to John Cowper Powys arranged alphabetically, G-J. The correspondents are as follows: Alexander Greene, of Alexander Greene Books (1), 1928; Frances Wilkinson (née Gregg, wife of Louis Wilkinson) (1 telegram), [1919] (upper right-hand corner torn away); Ichiro Hara (13 + 2 undated Christmas cards, 2 postcards and 1 photograph), 1957-1962 (references to the publication in Japan of John Cowper Powys's philosophical treatise The Meaning of Culture (1929), together with Ichiro Hara's response to some of John Cowper Powys's works); Oliver Holt (1 letter), 1955 (references to the last illness of John Cowper Powys's brother Littleton Charles Powys); Kenneth Hopkins (3), 1956-1958 + printed article by Hopkins entitled Reflections on Satan Montgomery (1962); Reginald Hunter (1), 1931; Rolf Italiaander (1), 1958; Gwyn Jones (2), 1942; and Jonah Jones (1), 1959.

Letters to John Cowper Powys arranged alphabetically, K-P. The correspondents are as follows: Florian Karsch (1), 1951 (enclosing a photostatic copy of a letter, 1945, to Victor Goldschmidt from John Cowper Powys) (both letters refer to correspondence between John Cowper Powys and Florian Karsch's father Joachim Karsch); the Reverend H. R. King (1 postcard), 1927; George Wilson Knight (1), 1957; Derek Wilton Langridge (1), 1956 (the envelope inscribed by John Cowper Powys (f. 7)); [? C. McStrace] (1), no year noted (photocopy); John Middleton Murry (2), 1946; John Morgan, husband of novelist Elena Puw Morgan (1), 1945; Bernard Price O'Neill (3 letters, 2 greeting notes and 1 postcard), 1937, 1942-1943, 1945, O'Neill's daughter Jill Olson (1), 1947, and his son Brian O'Neill (1), 1947 (the latter two letters referring to the death of Bernard Price O'Neill); Doris Pascal (1), 1918; Iorwerth C. Peate, of the National Museum of Wales (1), 1942 (photocopy) (translated interlineally by John Cowper Powys, or at least in his hand); William Perrott, on behalf of The Society of Dorset Men (1), 1962 (nominating John Cowper Powys for Honorary Life Membership of the Society); Charles Rollo Peters (1), undated; and Jacquetta Priestley (née Hawkes) (2), 1955-1956.