Includes both sides of Dorothy's correspondence with Willard D. Straight; letters from friends and relatives. Also materials on civic activities, correspondence on Willard Straight Hall, and correspondence on The New Republic and Asia magazines.

Includes photocopies of correspondence with Margaret Isherwood, Eloise Elmhirst Sharman, Ellen Van Volkenberg Browne and correspondence concerning Willard Straight Hall; lecture notes, notebooks, diaries and travel journals; an inventory for the records room at Dartington Hall and a diary describing World War I by an unknown author. Also, microfilmed correspondence between Leonard K. Elmhirst and Dorothy Whitney Straight; her diaries, clippings, social appointments, notes and addresses.

Transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by Karolyn Gould for a project concerning Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst; includes interviews with Roger Baldwin, Bruce Bliven, Frances Bolton, Ellen von Voltenberg Brown, George Cushman, Josephine Whitney Duveneck, Leonard Elmhirst, Milton Rose, Frances Tower Thatcher, and notes concerning Whitney Park. Also, proposals, correspondence, and draft chapters for a biography of Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst.