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Collection includes letters between Corelli and her publishers, George and Richard Bentley, 1885-1894, including a copy of a letter by Basil Wilberforce concerning Corelli's "Barabbas"; letters to Alexander Wedderburn, 1908-17, that discuss John Ruskin, Arthur and Joan Severn, and personal matters; letters between George Bentley, Eric Mackay, and Arthur Waugh; autograph manuscript of "The Great Secret" (published in 1920 as "The Secret Power"); and a corrected typescript by Bertha Vyver entitled "Marie Corelli" (published in 1930 as "Memoirs of Marie Corelli") that contains a chapter by John Cuming Walters.

Correspondence, diaries, and writings of Marie Scheikévitch, correspondence of François and Pierre Sicard, and a small number of photographs, drawings by Scheikévitch and François Sicard, and other documents and ephemera. Scheikévitch's correspondence and diaries concern her personal life and artistic and literary friendships. Although letters from Proust are not present, correspondents include artists and writers of his circle, with concentrations of letters from intimate friends of Scheikévitch, including Daniel Berthelot, René Boylesve, Adrien Hébrard, and Claude-Joseph Gignoux. Also present is a small amount of family correspondence, including letters from her father, S. Scheikévitch, her brother Victor, François and Lili Sicard, and Pierre Carolus-Duran. Scheikévitch's writings include draft sections of her autobiography, scripts for radio broadcasts, and drafts of a novel. Correspondence of François and Pierre Sicard includes letters from artists and other notable people, including a few letters from George Clemenceau and other members of the Clemenceau family. Also present are a small amount of Sicard family correspondence, drawings of François Sicard, and a holograph play written by Georges Clemenceau for performance by children at a family gathering.

The collection consists of writings, correspondence, other papers, and audiovisual materials. Writings include published works including Housekeeping, Connie Bronson, Mother Country, The Death of Adam, Gilead, and Home, as well as unpublished fiction and student writings. Correspondence includes family, personal, and professional correspondence, and fan mail. Notable correspondents include Robinson's agent, Ellen Levine, and her editor Pat Strachan. Both writings and correspondence include born digital components. Other papers consist of printed material, clippings, photographs, and miscellaneous papers. Audiovisual materials consist of an interview with Marilynne Robinson.

Photographs created by Marion Belanger that document sites and activities in Hawaii, Utah, Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, and the Florida Everglades. Images captured 1998-2004, and printed 1998-2018. Photographs of Hawaii created in 1999 include sites on Hawaii Island and Maui, including Haleakala National Park and Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Photographs of Utah created in 2003 include documentation of fowling for swan at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge as well as views of Great Salt Lake and of the Spiral Jetty, an earthwork sculpture built on the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake near Rozel Point in April 1970 by sculptor Robert Smithson. Photographs of sites in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, created in 1998 include views of Mammoth Hot Springs and Old Faithful. Photographs of the Florida Everglades created in 2018 include both public and private lands of the tropical wetlands.

The Marjorie Bowen Papers consist of the literary and personal papers of the British writer Gabrielle Margaret Vere Campbell, who published hundreds of works of fiction, historical fiction, and history, as well as reviews and opinion pieces, in the first half of the twentieth century. The collection primarily contains manuscripts, typescripts, and printed versions of her writings, with photographs, press cuttings, and some correspondence files that include letters from authors Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Rebecca West. Also in the collection are papers of Bowen's mother, the author and playwright Mrs. Vere Campbell, and Bowen's son Hilary Long, in particular more than three hundred letters from Bowen to Long. The bulk was sent to Long during World War II while he was serving in the King's Royal Rifle Corps (KRRC), and includes many examples of wartime V-mail.
Auxiliary material covers the lives of family members, including ancestors in the Bowen, Ellis, and Campbell families. Present are three manuscript memoirs of Marjorie Bowen's ancestors: her grandfather, Bishop John Ellis (1785-1855), a Moravian missionary who spent several decades in Antigua, Jamaica, and Barbados, written by his widow; her grandmother Elizabeth Bowen Ellis (1792-1842), written by her son (Bowen's father) Charles Bowen Ellis; and a memoir of Charles Bowen Ellis (1821-1887), also a Moravian minister and missionary, written by one of his siblings.

The Marjorie Content Papers and Photographs include correspondence, writings, printed material, and photographs that document the personal and professional life of American photographer Marjorie Content.

The papers document the work of poet, artist, and art critic Marjorie Welish. The papers consist of professional correspondence, drafts of writings, notebooks, research files, course material, teaching notes, printed material, and computer disks, spanning the years 1950-2003. The bulk of the collection consists of Welish's correspondence and drafts of writings. Correspondence includes letters from colleagues, students, and friends regarding her teaching and writings. Writings shed light on her creative process and include autograph manuscript and typescrpt drafts and printed versions of her writings, including her poetry, essays, and criticism. Other papers include research notes, her notes from courses she enrolled in, her teaching notes and class material, and various printed material that she collected as part of her research.

The papers consist of material gathered by Mark Holloway in preparation for his unpublished biography of Martha Gordon Crotch. Series I holds Crotch's autograph manuscript diaries describing her daily activities between 1935 and 1956 and her relationships with friends Alexander (Sasha) Berkman, Emmy Eckstein, Emma Goldman, Frieda Lawrence, and Norman Douglas, among others. Also present is a typescript of Crotch's autobiography, some personal papers, and photographs, including a folder of material on Francis Frederick Gordon, editor of the Advocate of India. Series II holds Mark Holloway's notes and other research material, as well as autograph manuscript and typescript pages of outlines, drafts, and chapters of his projected book which had the working title "Auntie: a biographical memoir of Mrs. Gordon Crotch (1879-1967) of Vence, and of some of her friends -- Frieda Lawrence, Emma Goldman, Norman Douglas, and Robert Nichols -- during the decade 1930-1940."

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, personal papers, and other materials documenting Weinbaum's work as editor of Novoe Russkoe Slovo and president of the Literary Fund.