"My dear Mrs. Odle, Mr. Powys and I were so glad to have your card to-day. I saw Dorothy Richardson's name when I first opened the TIMES on Monday and thought I had been prepared to see it at any time, it gave me such a feeling of loss, I felt I was realizing it for the first time...." Typed transcription, 1s. , 19 Jun 1957

The collection consists of correspondence between Richardson and Eliot Bliss, Peggy Kirkcaldy, Rose Odle and John Hinsdale Thompson, John Cowper-Powys, Phyllis Cowper-Powys to Rose Odle, H. G. Wells and Miriam Grossman to Leon Edel. The correspondence dates from 1928 to 1952. Also included in the collection are typescript and carbon copy typescript transcriptions of articles by Richardson, reminiscences of Richardson by Elizabeth Odle Turner and Pauline Marrian, and a checklist and annotated bibliography by Gloria Glikin. Also included in the collection is the manuscript for Dawn's Left Hand and an autobiographical draft piece by British artist, Adrian Allinson, entitled A Painter's Pilgrimage which includes numerous corrections and editor's notes by Richardson. Accompanying this manuscript are fifteen poems by Allinson. The miscellaneous material consists of a pocket notebook belonging to Leon Edel and photocopied press cuttings relating to Richardson.