The Louise Stevens Bryant Papers consist of personal and professional material. They include a typescript of Bequest from a Life (privately printed), a biography of Bryant written by her companion, Lura Beam, and excerpts from correspondence to Beam from Bryant. The collection also contains Bryant's diaries, notebooks, and professional reports concerning public health and social work issues; subject files; and correspondence, including letters from Havelock Ellis and others generated from Bryant's work negotiating the U.S. publication of Ellis's Studies in the Psychology of Sex." There is related material about Louise Stevens Bryant in the Smith College Archives. The Lura Beam Papers are housed in the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University.

This collection is organized into four series:

• I. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS
• II. PERSONAL ACTIVITIES
• III. CORRESPONDENCE
• IV. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
• OVERSIZE MATERIALS
• BOOKS ON SHELF