The Elizabeth P. Richardson Papers consist of 15 linear feet of material, dating from 1865 to 1998. Types of materials include correspondence, a collection of scrapbooks containing articles and images related to Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group, reading notes, drafts of essays, notes and galley proofs for Richardson's A Bloomsbury Iconography , and artwork. This collection was assembled by Elizabeth Power Richardson and donated to Smith College in 1998. Original correspondence from Elizabeth Richardson was donated by Panthea Reid and J. Howard Woolmer. Tony Bradshaw donated letters written to Barbara Strachey. The papers are arranged in six series.

This collection is organized into six series:

• I. Correspondence of Elizabeth P. Richardson, 1961-1998
• II. Scrapbooks, 1905-1998
• III. Personal Papers, 1963-199?
• IV. Subject Files, 1865-1997
• V. A Bloomsbury Iconography, 1979-199?
• VI. Oversize

The papers are arranged in six series.