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Four hundred and forty letters, 1923-1996, addressed to Mary or Gerald Casey, consisting of (i) one hundred and forty-seven letters, 1923-1972, to Mary Casey from correspondents including her grandmother Mary Jane Penny (23), 1923-1931, Gertrude Shackleton (10), 1944-1969, Valentine Ackland (54), 1966-1969 (mainly 1969), Monica Blake (10), 1939-1964, Patrick Casey, her brother-in-law (2), 1953-1956, Nellie S. Hounsell (5), 1945-1955, her grandfather Rowland Penny (2), 1931-1932, Barbara Kerr (1), 1973, and Vera Wainwright (2), 1956; (ii) seventy-six letters, 1939-1996, to Gerard Casey from the Powys family: John Cowper Powys (6), 1939-1949, Marian Powys Grey (1), [?1965], Katie Powys (26), 1946-1962, William Powys (14), 1946-1969, Lucy Penny (10), 1945-1960, Alyse Gregory (3), 1951-1962, Phyllis Playter (6), 1947-1971, Rose Dyer (1), 1986, Eleanor Walton (2), 1986, 1996, Peter Powys Grey (2), 1969 and [n.d.], Anthony (Tony) Dyer (1), 1986, Gilfrid Powys (3), 1986, and Mary Barham Johnson (1), 1986; and (iii) two hundred and seventeen letters, 1943-1996, to Gerard Casey from other correspondents including his mother Margaret Casey (156, mainly addressed to him and Mary, with eight addressed to Mary only), 1943-1975, John Redwood Anderson (5), 1946-1962, Timothy Hyman (3), 1975-1985, Jeremy Hooker (4), 1972-1986, Glen Cavaliero (5), 1974-1987, Kathleen Raine (10), [1970s]-1986, Kim [Taplin] (2 postcards), 1986 and [n.d.], Roland Mathias (2), 1976, Alan Clodd (1), 1975, Iorwerth Peate (1), 1974, Jack Clemo (1), 1986, Oliver [Marlow Wilkinson] (2), 1986-1987, Rosemary Manning (1), 1975, G[eorge Richard] Wilson-Knight (3), 1971-1977, David Blamires (1), 1972, and Gertrude Shackleton (2), [?1973], 1986.

Some three hundred and twenty-seven letters, mostly air letters, 1965-1978, from Lucy Penny to her daughter Mary Casey, containing personal and family news, together with occasional enclosures such as photographs, press cuttings, pressed flowers and letters from family and friends.
The enclosed correspondence comprises thirteen letters addressed to Lucy from correspondents including Valentine Ackland, 13 January 1966, 22 March 1968, 2 November 1969, Sylvia [Townsend Warner], 8 November 1969, Glen [Cavaliero], 10 January 1970, and Peter [Powys Grey], 22 January 1972. Also included are letters to Mary Casey from Helen Maddick, 22 November 1970, and Cathy Lentz, 3 February 1977.