Correspondence arranged by name of the correspondent, including family, friends, and professional contacts. She wrote many letters in search of distant relatives in efforts to build a family history. Materials are sorted alphabetically by correspondent and then chronologically.

Correspondence, legal papers, travel writings and ephemera, drawings, sheet music, stamps, foreign currency, journals, photographs, glass negatives, and slides from the Blackwelder, Del Mar, and MacCoy families, who were connected by marriage. The families were avid travelers, artists, and writers, and were prominent in Chicago, St. Louis, and New York.