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This collection includes drawings and personal letters from authors and illustrators of children's books, correspondence about her career and promotions, and letters of condolence at the time of her death.

The 24 boxes of notebooks and 20 boxes of card files were partly prepared for publication at the time of her death.

The collection contains 26 letters by Rackham and nine Christmas cards either specially designed by him or incorporating designs made for his books. Letters to Rackham's biographer, Derek Hudson, from Winifred Wheeler, daughter of Walter Freeman, a friend who started Rackham on his commercial career. The manuscript notebooks, galley proofs, and a printed copy of Hudson's ARTHUR RACKHAM: HIS LIFE AND WORK are included. Also, notes, drafts, and miscellaneous material relating to the Arthur Rackham catalog published by the Friends of Columbia University Libraries in 1967. In addition, the library has a collection of 413 Rackham drawings, watercolors, and oil paintings, 30 sketch books, and about 400 printed books and ephemera.

Reports, surveys, articles, government publications, and other printed material relating to all aspects of child labor. Many of the items were prepared and issued by the National Child Labor Committee.

Collection consists of correspondence, writings, research notes, notebooks, printed material, books, photographs and one audiotape.

Reports, articles, case histories, and clippings representing a partial record of the anti-child labor movement. To a large extent, these documents are the work of Charles Lionel Chute.

Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, photographs, clippings, and other printed materials. Included are the unpublished manuscripts of his biographies of Charles Laughton and of Viola Heise Bodenschatz, 1883-1967, a suspected Nazi sympathizer, and notes for his biography of Frederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo. There is cataloged correspondence from Philip Cortelyou Johnson and Sir Angus Wilson.

Correspondence, manuscripts and printed stories by Addington.