This series is organized into four subseries: Correspondence, Memoirs, Newspaper Articles, and Photographs.

Correspondence (transcriptions)

This subseries includes correspondence of the Garnett family. Most extensive is the correspondence of Edward Garnett with authors such as Joseph Conrad (Box 1, folder 6) and D.H. Lawrence (Box 1, folders 9-10). Also included is the correspondence of Richard Garnett (Box 1, folders 3-4) and members of the Patten and Black families (Box 1, folders 1-2). All of the letters are transcriptions. This series does not include original correspondence.

Memoirs

This subseries contains memoirs by members of the Garnett family. Olivia Rayne Garnett recounts the early life of her parents, Richard Garnett and Olivia Narney Garnett (Box 1, folder 13). Constance Garnett writes of the Garnett and Black families (Box 1, folder 11), and David Garnett's "Constance Garnett" contains memories of his mother (Box 1, folder 12).

Newspaper Articles

This subseries includes newspaper articles about members of the Garnett family. These consist of book reviews, obituaries, and related articles. The bulk of the articles are original clippings from the 1950s, along with transcriptions of earlier articles.

Photographs

This subseries includes black and white prints of members of the Garnett family. It contains photographs of Richard Garnett, his wife Olivia Narney Garnett, and their children. Also included are photographs of Constance (Black) Garnett, Edward Garnett, and David Garnett.

This series is organized into four subseries: Correspondence, Notes, Evaluations and Corrections, and Publication Materials.

Includes material related to The Garnett Family, Heilbrun's dissertation at Columbia University, which was published in 1961.

Correspondence

This subseries includes the correspondence of Carolyn G. Heilbrun concerning The Garnett Family. Many of the letters seek permission to quote correspondence with Edward Garnett. Correspondents include E.M. Forster (Box 2, folder 36), Stephen Spender (Box 2, folder 45), and various publishers. Particularly extensive is correspondence with B. W. Huebesch of the Viking Press (Box 2, folder 41).

Notes

This subseries includes Carolyn Heilbrun's notes for The Garnett Family. Particularly extensive are her notes on Richard, Constance, and Edward Garnett.

Evaluations and Corrections

This subseries includes corrections and evaluations of The Garnett Family by members of the Columbia University faculty.

Publication Materials

This series includes a copyright application for The Garnett Family. It also includes a summary of The Garnett Family for the microfilm publication of the thesis.

This series includes interviews of and about Christopher Isherwood. All are audio recordings. There are transcriptions of the interviews conducted by Heilbrun and of Isherwood's Modern Languages Association Address, as well as television and radio interviews.

Excerpts from three of the interviews conducted by Heilbrun were published in Twentieth Century Literature Volume 22 (October 1976).

The audiotape in this series records an interview with Alice G. Fredman, writer and professor. This interview was conducted by Carolyn Heilbrun. It is one of a series of interviews about women who had careers before the Women's Liberation movement, especially the generation born in the 1920s.