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Over forty letters and telegrams, 1939-1945, to Edwin John, as Gwen John's executor and principal legatee, relating to the disposal of her estate.

Some fifty-five letters, 1940-1949, to Edwin John from galleries, dealers and agents, relating mainly to the dispersal of Gwen John's work after her death.

Some sixty letters, 1928-1953, to Edwin John from various correspondents (surnames K-W), including Dorelia McNeill (6) 1938-1945.

Over a hundred letters, 1934-1956, addressed to Edwin John, nephew of Gwen John, from various correspondents (surnames B-J), including his father, Augustus John (48) 1938-1956, and other members of the John family; many of the letters are concerned with the 1946 Gwen John memorial exhibition.

Some fifty letters, 1934-1961, to Edwin John from various correspondents, including over forty letters from his father, Augustus John, relating mainly to the estate of Gwen John and the disposal of her works after her death but also containing personal news and comments; and four letters, 1948-1949, from Madame Louise Roche, Gwen John's nearest neighbour in Meudon, together with manuscript and typescript recollections of Gwen John by Madame Roche.

Some thirty-three letters and postcards, 1928-1975, addressed to Edwin John, mainly from family members.
The correspondents include his father Augustus John, 1932-1946 (ff. 9-11), his aunt Gwen John, 1928-1933 (ff. 15-25), and his step-mother Dorelia McNeill, 1963-1967 (ff. 31-47). Also included are two letters from Edwin to his wife Betty John, [?1933] (ff. 48-51), and two postcards addressed to Gwen John from her father, Edwin William John, 1911 (ff. 13-14).

Forty-two letters and postcards, 1962-1978, from Edwin John to his friend, the artist Guy Roddon. Also included is a letter, [n.d.], from Roddon's daughter Louise to Sara John.

The file comprises photocopies of letters written by Augustus John, 1934-1961, to his son Edwin, together with extracts from three letters, 1937-1946, not included in the photocopies.

Some four hundred and eighty-six letters and postcards, [1950s]-1978, from Edwin John, mainly in Paris, to his daughter Sara John; together with twelve from Sara to Edwin, 1964-1977.
Also included are nine miscellaneous letters to Sara John, 1965-1996, including one from Michael Holroyd; an exchange of letters between Sara John and Brian Sewell, October 2004, concerning Sewell's article on Augustus and Gwen John ('Feminists still haunt Augustus', Evening Standard, 1 October 2004, pp. 38-39); four letters from Edwin to his son Ben John, 1953; two letters from Edwin, 1946, 1973; five John family postcards, 1952-[?1964], from Ben John, Dorelia McNeill and Sara's mother Beatrice Dorothy John; and twelve scraps, postcards and other miscellaneous items, [n.d.].

Seventy-seven letters, 1953-1977, from Mary Taubman (née Edmond), art historian, to Edwin John, discussing Taubman's research into the life and work of Gwen John, including identification of her paintings, publication of her letters, preparations for exhibitions of her work, and the gathering of materials for a proposed biography.
Also included are transcripts, [1967], of letters to Gwen John from Arthur Symonds (f. 79) and Auguste Rodin (f. 80); and a colour copy, [?2005], of a 1955 watercolour painting by Edwin John of Gwen John's garden house at Meudon (f. 170).

Papers, 1927-72, relating to the administration of the estates of various members of the John family, notably that of Gwen John, including an agreement, 1927, for the purchase by her of property at 8 rue Babie, Meudon, and executors' accounts and correspondence of her executor, Edwin John, concerning damage and losses incurred at the property during the Second World War, together with rate receipts and a plan of the property. Also included are copy wills of Edwin William John (d. 1938), Augustus John (d. 1961) and Dorelia McNeill (d. 1969), with related accounts, legal papers and correspondence, and fifteen letters, 1966-7, from Admiral Sir Caspar John to Edwin John, relating to the estate of Augustus John.