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Correspondence, manuscripts, awards, photographs, and clippings. The collection includes letters from authors, publishers, journalists, and the reading public about Prescott's book reviews from 1931 to 1968. Printed copies of his book review column in The New York Times from 1942 until 1968 and printed copies of his articles and book reviews in "Cue", "The Yale Review", "The Saturday Review", and other magazines and newspapers are mounted in 22 scrapbooks. There is the setting typescript of his book Lords of Italy; portraits from the Middle Ages (Harper & Row, 1972), as well as clippings of reviews and correspondence relating to his other books. There is also a volume of letters from authors and friends on his retirement from The New York Times in 1966, as well as photographs and awards. Among the cataloged correspondents are: Louis Auchincloss, John Hersey, Phyllis McGinley, Mary Renault, A.L. Rowse, and C.P. Snow.

Scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, magazine clippings, and articles from Prescott's career as a book reviewer. Many of the reviews were published in Women's Wear Daily, Look Magazine, Newsweek, and the New York Times. Often placed in between pages of the scrapbooks are letters from the authors of the books Prescott reviewed. In addition, the scrapbooks hold personal correspondence, unpublished drafts, speeches, poems, articles about his career, and related materials. There are also scrapbooks with correspondence, reviews, and other clippings about Prescott's books: A World of Our Own, The Child Saved, A Darkening Green, Soundings, Never in Doubt, and The Norton Book of Short Stories (editor).