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The series comprises extracts from letters mainly from Augustus John relating to his writings, arrangements for portraits and exhibitions, with personal and family news; photocopies from John Quinn's diary, 1911, and his diaries, 1917-1923; together with articles about the artist and papers relating to his exhibitions held in Britain and America.

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.

The file comprises letters, 1968-[1998], from Villiers Bergne (4), son-in-law of Augustus John, Rebecca John (37), Sara John (28), Poppet Pol (13), Vivien White (17) and other members of the John family, relating to family matters.

The file includes notes from letters written to Henry Lamb, [1912]-[1914], T. E. Lawrence, 1919-[1935], [D. S. ] MacColl, [1900]-[1945] (originals held at the Special Collections Library, Glasgow), Hugh and Michaela Pooley, 1914-[1917], Anthony Powell, 1928-1960, John Cowper Powys, 1955-1958, Michel Salaman, [1911]-[1955], Bernard Shaw, 1943-1944, and photocopies of typescript letters, 1944-1945, from Bernard Shaw, Theodore Spencer, 1929-1934, Lytton Strachey, 1913-1928, Sir Charles Tennyson and Lady Tennyson, 1944-1959, with background notes by him, and Dudley Tooth, 1928-1961.

The series comprises photocopies of letters, [1922]-1961, written by Augustus John to his wife, children and grandchildren and other family members, together with some letters to Augustus John, relating to family and professional business.

The series comprises photocopies of letters, mainly written by Augustus John to his friends and sitters relating to his artwork and family matters and also to works on him such as Lillian Browse, Augustus John Drawings (London, 1941) and David Cecil (ed.), Fifty-two Drawings (London, 1957).

The file comprises photocopies of letters from Gwen John to her patron John Quinn, 1910-1924.

The file comprises photocopies and mainly transcripts of extracts from letters referring to Augustus John, including [W. B.] Yeats to Lady Gregory and others, 1907-1935; H[elen] M[aitland] to [Henry Lamb], 1920; Christopher (Kit) Wood to his mother, 1921-1926; Horace de Vere Cole to [J. B.] Manson, 1926; W[illiam] R[othenstein] to Flora Russell, 1935-1944, and to Wyndham Lewis, 1927-[1942]; Dylan Thomas to Frances Hughes, 1939; [Jack] Knewstub to his family, [1940]-[1949]; correspondence between William de Belleroche and Frank Brangwyn, 1943-1950; John Cowper Powys to Louis Wilkinson, 1955-1956; Vivien White to Vera Stubbs, 1959, together with a photocopy of a letter from Bertrand Russell to Lady Melchett, 1964, relating to Augustus John's memorial and extracts from the D'Abernon Papers at the British Library relating to Augustus John's portrait of the Lord.

The file comprises Mary Taubman's 'homage' to Hugh Kingsmill entitled '"A passing breeze": 1920-1922' (VI), together with an explanatory note, 1970. Michael Holroyd's critical biography Hugh Kingsmill was first published in 1964 and again in 1971 and selections from his writings in 1970.

The file comprises two corrected drafts of the play, [1974].

The file comprises the first script of a dramatised documentary based on the life of Gwen John, 1983.

The file comprises letters, 1968-2000, from Kathleen Hale (9), Edna Clarke Hall (3), James Hanley (3), Ethel C. Hatch (2), Beshlie [Heron] (6), Bevis Hillier (1), Richard Hughes (4), Daniel Huws (2) and H. Montgomery Hyde (1).

The file comprises letters, [1968]-[1998], from Charles Tennyson (3), Peter Terson (5), Caitlin Thomas (2), Lisa T[ickner] (3), Ruthven Todd (2), William J. Weatherby (3), Sir Charles Wheeler (3), Emlyn Williams (2) and Dora Yates (11). Letters from unidentified correspondents are also included.

The file comprises letters, 1968-[1998], from foreign repositories including the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Archives of American Art, Detroit; Art Gallery of Ontario; Brooklyn College; University of California, Los Angeles; Davis & Langdale Company, New York; Department of National Defence, Ottawa; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand; Havard University Archives; Houghton Library, Havard University; Huntington, California; University of Michigan; Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts; Musée Picasso, Paris; Musée Rodin, Paris; New York Public Library; Johannesburg Art Gallery; South African National Gallery; University of Auckland; University of Texas and Yale University Library, and also letters, 1996, from his book publishers Farrar, Straus & Giroux in New York.

The file comprises photocopies of letters from Augustus John to Daniel George, 1950-1961; Elmer [Gertz], 1932; Oliver Gogarty, 1918-1947; Conger Goodyear, [1923]; William Robert Gregory, [?1907]; Pamela Grove, 1941-[1953]; and Ned [Grove], [1941x1953].

The file includes photocopies of letters from Augustus John to Philip Heseltine, 1920-1929; a transcript, 1972, of a letter, 1923, from the artist to Thomas Hardy, from the Thomas Hardy Memorial Collection, thanking the latter for sitting for him and stating that his portrait had been purchased by the Fitzwilliam Museum; Mary [Keene], [1945]-[1948]; and Dame Laura Knight, 1938, together with a press cutting from The Evening Standard, 1968, containing a profile of her.

The file comprises photocopies of letters, [1917]-[1955], from Augustus John to Lady Cynthia Asquith.

The file comprises photocopies of letters and telegrams, 1923-1926, to Homer Saint-Gaudens, Director of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, and his replies relating to arrangements for Augustus John's first visit to the States in 1923 and his exhibition, together with a letter, 1930, from Augustus John to him.

The file comprises photocopies of letters from Augustus John to Lady Gregory, [1904]-1926.

The file includes photocopies from New York's The Art News, 1923, of an article entitled 'Augustus John will paint our negroes'.