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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.

Photocopies of forty letters, 1947-1948, 1951-1960 and undated, from John Cowper Powys to Jill Olson and one photocopied letter, 1947, to Jill Olson's father, Powys's close friend Bernard O'Neill (f. 1), together with a photocopy of an enclosed printed publication notice for Powys's literary study of Rabelais (1948) (f. 8-verso). The letters to Jill Olson contain references to the deaths in 1947 of Bernard O'Neill and of Powys's sister-in-law Elizabeth Powys (née Myers) and to the onset and progression of the neural disease which afflicted Powys's son Littleton Alfred, leading to his death in 1954, while the letter to Bernard O'Neill mentions the latter's failing health and that Powys had begun the final chapters of "my Romance of the Dark Ages" (i.e. his novel Porius, published in 1951).

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].