Collection largely pertains to his professional career at Stanford University and includes correspondence with former students and colleagues, committee files, class materials, lecture notes and references files on authors, and manuscripts. Some of the correspondence and manuscripts pertain to his work on E. M. Forster and the Bloomsbury group. Items of note in that category include notes from interviews with Julian Bell, Clive Bell, F. L. Lucas, Patrick Wilkinson, and Noel Annan; correspondence with David Garnett, Duncan Grant, and Noel Annan; and notes from his interviews with E. M. Forster, 1957-58. Stanford faculty among his correspondents include Robert McAfee Brown, H. Bruce Franklin, Albert and Barbara Gelpi, Arturo Islas, Diane Middlebrook, Tom Moser, Richard Scowcroft, and Albert J. Guerard. Other correspondents include William Chace, 1971-94; John O. and Mairi McCormick, 1962-2000; Jean and Stephen Parrish, 1949-2000; Lucio and Marcia Ruotolo, 1965-99; Arthur and Penelope Sale, 1960-2001; and Oliver and Gunnvor Stallybrass, 1958-2000.

Research materials on the Bloomsbury group, E.M. Forster, and William Hale White. Includes 39 letters from E.M. Forster, 1956-1967, as well as letters from Arthur Sale, Noel Annan, Charles Mauron, Patrick Wilkinson, Basil Willey, Leonard Woolf, and David Garnett. Also includes some outgoing correspondence, speeches, etc.