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Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, and printed material. Most of the correspondence is from Cable to Adelene Moffat and relates to the Home Culture Clubs. Other correspondents include Louise S. Cable. There are also typescript and handwritten drafts by Cable; manuscripts, documents, and printed matter concerning Moffat's work with the Home Culture Clubs; photostatic copies of correspondence and manuscripts concerning Cable from other libraries; transcriptions of the correspondence between Cable and Moffat; a transcription of the journal of Clarence B. Roote, an acquaintaince of Cable and Moffat; and one box of manuscripts, notes, and related items concerning Philip Butcher's book about the correspondence between Cable and Moffat, So Full a Harmony.

Letters addressed to Lord. Correspondents include Carl Schurz, John Dewey, George Washington Cable, and Josiah Royce.

Correspondence and publishing agreements for many of their authors in the pre-World War I period.

Letters, copies of photographs, printed materials and exhibit labels relating to Edith Wharton, 1862-1937, American novelist and short story writer, best known for such works as "Ethan Frome" (1911) and "The Age of Innocence" (1920). A collection of printed works by and about Wharton given by Mrs. Haverstick is cataloged in Rare Books.

A collection of letters written by various personages in theatrical and literary circles to Ira A. Hards and his wife, the actor Ina Hammer Hards. Among the letters are seventeen from George W. Cable and nine from Mary Austin, both of whom collaborated with the Hards in certain dramatic compositions. The collection also includes account books, appointment books, photographs, playscripts, programs, scrapbooks, and materials related to the Westchester Theatre.