The file includes letters to Sir L. Alma-Tadema (1), Elias Bancroft (12), W. B. Dalton (11), Douglas Gordon (3), James Gresham (1), John Harries (22), S. J. Hodson (2), Harold Hughes (3), Llewellyn Nevill Vaughan Lloyd-Mostyn, 3rd baron Mostyn (1), Shirley Slocombe (14), and G. Harry Wallis (4).
The file includes letters to Elias Bancroft (43), Reginald Barber (1), George Cockram (1), Gwilym Cowlyd (1), Edward Freeman (3), J. R. Furness (19), Douglas Gordon (8), Harold Hughes (14), S. J. Hodson (3), J. Henry Henshall (1), Cuthbert C.Grundy (2), James Gresham (5), Joseph Kirkpatrick (1), Sheridan Knowles (1), Hamilton Marr (2), F. J. Shields (14), Shirley Slocombe (3), and G. Harry Wallis (4).
The file includes letters to Elias Bancroft (24), John Cassidy (4), E. Rimbault Dibdin (7), Leonard Hughes (2), Harold Rathbone (33), and Christopher Williams (2).
The file includes letters to Elias Bancroft (16), W. Follen Bishop (3), S. Lawson Booth (8), John Cassidy (5), E. Rimbault Dibdin (9), John Ely (1), James Gresham (4), Paul Knight (3), C. Oppenheimer (1), S. W. Oscroft (5), and Harold Rathbone (11).
The series comprises Whaite's letter books, 1886-1912, containing copies of letters to various correspondents, including prominent artists of the period, and influential people in the art world, together with letters to art societies and galleries. The contents relate, in the main, to his professional business as an artist and president of both the Manchester Academy of Fine Art and the Royal Cambrian Academy, but also to some matters of a personal nature.