Correspondence, notes, reviews and clippings documenting the literary career of Henry Walcott Boynton. The collection includes handwritten drafts of plays ("Dr. Lavendar," "Guenever," "Pompilia," "Flood Tide," etc.), prose and poems, and drafts of stories written under the pseudonym John Walcott. Correspondence is chiefly with magazine and book publishers, including the Atlantic Monthly, The Bookman and The Nation.

This collection is organized into nine series:

• 1. Correspondence
• 2. Dr. Lavendar, Play
• 3. Manuscripts of Plays and Books
• 4. Manuscripts of Poetry
• 5. Boynton Writing Under Pseudonym John Walcott
• 6. Scrapbook on Guenever
• 7. Books of Clippings and Reviews By Boynton
• 8. Newspaper Clippings
• 9. Miscellaneous Materials

Correspondence is arranged alphabetically.