Typewritten and autograph transcripts of poems with autograph annotations and corrections (heavily corrected or annotated in some cases). Multiple versions of some poems.
The letters discuss social and literary matters. Also includes a printed letter from James to Elton, and dozens of other subscribers to a letter sent to James on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Elton was Joy Scovell's father-in-law, the father of her husband, Charles Sutherland Elton.