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Twenty-three letters and postcards, 1953-1956, to Dinah White from various correspondents, including Eric Harvey, 20 February 1954 (f. 6), Phyllis Playter, June 1954-December 1955 (ff. 15, 24), Lucy Amelia Penny, June-September 1955 (ff. 18-19, 23), and Michael Hanbury, January 1956 (ff. 25-26). The letters mainly concern the illness and death of Father Littleton Alfred Powys (ff. 1-14) and the hospitalisation and death of Littleton Charles Powys (ff. 19-23). There are also letters, photographs and an obituary relating to the late monastic founder Dom Aelred Carlyle (ff. 25-30).

Letters and cards to Frederick Davies, mainly from members of the Powys family, including forty-seven letters and seventeen cards, 1962-1986, from John Cowper Powys's sister, Lucy Amelia Penny (ff. 3-82) and sixteen letters, 1963-1967, from Alyse Gregory, widow of Llewelyn Powys (ff. 87-110), together with five letters and three cards, 1964-1967, mostly in French, from Marie Canavaggia, translator of John Cowper Powys's works (ff. 111-125).

Some sixty-two letters and cards, 1955, from Littleton Charles Powys to John Cowper Powys. Also included is a letter, 1 May [1955], to John Cowper Powys from his sister Lucy [Penny] (f. 38).

A letter, 1949, from Theodore Francis Powys to his brother, John Cowper Powys; together with twenty-eight letters and cards, 1946-1979, to Gilbert Turner, mostly from members of the Powys family or from friends of John Cowper Powys, including John Cowper Powys's sister, Gertrude Powys (2), 1946-1948, his sister-in-law, Alyse Gregory (2), 1947-1949, his sister, Lucy Amelia Penny (13), 1952-1973, his niece, Isobel Powys Marks (1), 1973, Lucy's daughter, Mary Casey (1), 1952, Mary's husband, Gerard Casey (2), 1976-1979, and John Redwood Anderson (1), 1947.