This series includes three chronologically arranged sections composed of material on Hollis's family, education, and retirement. There is also material related to Stacia Super's doctoral dissertation, which describes Hollis's intellectual development from 1927-1940. This series also contains two oral history interviews, one conducted by Ann Hartman with both Hollis and Reynolds in 1970, and a series done by Vida Grayson with Hollis in 1985.

The family papers and personal material include some of the personal effects of Hollis's parents, Bertha Hoering Hollis and Louis H. Hollis, and those of her grandfather, William Hollis. Materials documenting Hollis's leisure activities and political interests are also part of the section.

Hollis's educational material constitutes a large part of the series and consists of speeches, theses, correspondence papers, exams, dissertation and course notes. The earliest document is Hollis's 1924 valedictory address given at the Philadelphia High School for Girls and the series also includes her 1928 Wellesley thesis and her 1947 Bryn Mawr dissertation. Hollis's Smith College School for Social Work thesis "Emotional Factors in the Attitudes of Clients Toward Relief: Seven Case Studies," is stored in the Neilson Library.

The bulk of the material related to Hollis's retirement decisions and activities was generated at Crosslands, a retirement community located in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, where Hollis moved with Rosemary Reynolds in 1977. The correspondence, committee records, questionnaires, newsclippings, photographs, newsletters, music and other material document Hollis's continued activity in retirement, serving on a variety of committees, gardening, painting, and playing the dulcimer.

This series is divided into personal and general correspondence and is arranged chronologically except for frequent correspondents' letters have been removed and filed in separate folders. Additional correspondence is located in other series. For example, most of the correspondence from Gordon Hamilton can be found in Series III., Employment and Professional Activities, in the folder containing material from the Family Society of Rochester.

Hollis's personal correspondence spans the years 1946 to 1986. A number of the letters are addressed jointly to Hollis and Rosemary Reynolds. Some of the most extensive correspondence is between Hollis and her cousin, Frank March, with whom she played chess by mail. Hollis also maintained a regular exchange with a number of social work professionals from abroad. Most noted among them is Dame Eileen Younghusband, an English colleague and friend. Anni Hofer, a Swiss fellow who studied under Hollis in 1950 at the New York School of Social Work wrote to Hollis and Reynolds regularly in conjunction with Ruth Zobrist, Hofer's companion. Inga Gottfarb, a Swedish colleague, was also a frequent correspondent.

The general correspondence consists chiefly of letters between Hollis and her professional colleaques dating from 1933 to 1986. The letters are arranged chronologically. A few of the correspondents have been accorded separate folders. These include Mary E. Woods, who collaborated with Hollis on the third edition of Casework: A Psychosocial Therapy, Stacia Super, and Judith Mishne, a Columbia professor. Because correspondence from the latter contains some sensitive material, this folder will be closed to use until seventy-five years from its date of creation.

The material in this series is arranged chronologically within institution or professional organization for which Hollis was working or volunteering and is mainly comprised of documents from the Family Service Association of America and the Council on Social Work Education. Both Hollis and Reynolds were active in the Family Service Association (formerly the Family Welfare Association) based in New York. This material documents not only Hollis's involvement in committee work, but also her work from 1942 to 1947 as editor of The Family, a social work journal published by the association. [See Series VI for copies of the journals that she edited]

Hollis was an active member of the Council of Social Work Education (formerly the American Association of Schools of Social Work) for over thirty years. As early as 1949 she served as chairperson at annual meetings and was active on the advisory committee on advanced education for many years, and this material reflects that work.

The teaching series, arranged in four sections--the three institutions where Hollis taught and miscellaneous--follows a chronological arrangement according to school and/or course number except when otherwise indicated. Student papers gathered from various instititions, will not be available to researchers until seventy-five years from date of creation.

Hollis's first teaching position was at the School of Applied Social Sciences, Western Reserve University, where she taught from 1934 to 1940. The Western Reserve holdings include bibliographies, teaching notes and related materials, case notes, student cases and papers, and miscellaneous materials.

In the spring of 1943, Hollis began teaching part time at the New York School of Social Work (renamed Columbia University School of Social Work in 1962), and was appointed a full-time associate professor in 1947. She remained there until her retirement in 1972. These holdings include bibliographies and course assignments, lecture notes and related materials, cases records and notes and student cases and papers.

Beginning in the summer of 1955, Hollis led graduate seminars on casework in marital counseling and educational methods in teaching casework at the Smith College School for Social Work. She continued to teach one or both courses most summers through 1962. Notes and case material used for the seminars are arranged chronologically within each course.

The miscellaneous holdings are quite extensive and include assorted case notes, bibliographies, lecture notes papers, reading lists, and additional material. Case notes, from Philadelphia and Cleveland, span the years from approximately 1928 to 1941 and include notes Hollis took as a student at the Pennsylvania School for Social Work. [See also Series I] The bibliographies are drawn from from various sources. Additional teaching materials, used at a variety of institutions, include material on diagnostic and functional issues, marital counseling notes used at the New York School, Smith and in Michigan, supervision materials, and notes for various conferences and seminars. In addition, the series includes papers and articles written by colleagues, some with accompanying correspondence. Finally Hollis's "reading notes," consists of names of books and articles that Hollis had read or intended to read.

This series consists mainly of client records, and the records are arranged alphabetically by name or alias, or by category of case. Folder titles include the school and course in which the case was used or the agency where generated, when available. Some of the folder titles bear only the social service agency's intitials, rather than the full name of the institution, as this was all the information available. Most likely the CCRA stands for the Cuyahoga County Relief Administration in Cleveland, Ohio, and the AC stands for the Associated Charities.

In addition to the client record, some of the folders include related notes, bibliographies, and correspondence. Hollis gathered these files from various agencies for teaching purposes. Some of the cases were used for other purposes and appear in her publications. Most of the cases were carried by social work professionals or students; few are Hollis's own. In the margins of some records Hollis has penciled in a series of letters that are part of a coding system that she developed to classify the techniques used by social workers in their work with clients. [See Series VII, Typology Research]

By examining the case records in this series, it is possible to determine the caseworkers' approach to a range of issues raised in the sessions. For example, early records suggest that child sexual abuse was treated as the client's fantasy.

This series is aranged into two sections--speeches and papers, and publications. The speeches and papers are arranged chronologically. The publications are arranged chronologically within categories of publication.

The first section dates from 1930 to 1986 and consists of speeches, papers and related material. It begins with a collection of speech notes that Hollis annotated for the Sophia Smith Collection. The taped and written comments concerning these speeches are housed in Series VIII. The section also includes related correspondence and commentary.

The section on publications includes material edited and written by Hollis as well as responses to her work. It begins with select issues of The Journal of Social Casework (formerly The Family), for which Hollis served as editor from 1942 to 1947, and is followed by a collection of her published articles spanning the period from 1931 to 1983. Material related to Social Case Work in Practice: Six Case Studies (1939), Women in Marital Conflict (1949) and Casework: A Psychosocial Therapy (1964, 1972, 1981) complete the series. Multiple drafts of the third edition of Casework: A Psychosocial Therapy, co-authored by Mary E. Woods, constitutes the largest part of the publications section.

This series is arranged in five sections: notes and findings; applications and reports for the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) grant; case material used for research, including taped sessions; speeches and papers; articles and studies by students and associates using the typology. Within sections and subsections the material is arranged chronologically, except for the case records and tapes, which are arranged according to identification number.

The series consists of material relating to development and implementation of Hollis's typology of casework treatment, a system she devised to classify the techniques used by workers in their direct work with clients.

The first section, notes and findings, documents how Hollis began thinking about a classification system, or typology, in the late forties. It wasn't until a 1958 sabbatical that the work began to take a more definitive shape, and funding obtained through a NIMH grant helped to further her research, documented in the applications and reports in the second section. Although the terms 'classification system' and 'typology' refer to the same process, the folders titles reflect Hollis's usage. In the early stages of the work Hollis tended to rely on the term 'classification system', and as she refined her ideas and method, she adopted the term typology with increasing frequency. In addition, 'classification system' sometimes refers to the work of other clinicians and researchers, in contrast to 'typology,' which generally relates only to the system developed by Hollis. [See Series IV. Teaching, for lecture material related to the classification system]

To develop and test the typology, Hollis gathered data from counseling sessions recorded in greater than usual detail, and this material is found in the third section. At least nine records with corresponding code sheets from the early 1960s are housed in the series. In addition, there are tape recordings with corresponding interview data and diagnostic records of marital counseling sessions from the mid 1960s, gathered from family service agencies in St. Louis and Philadelphia.

Hollis's papers and speeches about the typology are found in the fourth section. Both social work students and experienced clinicians adopted it for use. Hollis served as an advisor or consultant to several students who explored the typology in their major works. These include Edward Mullen, Francis Turner, and F. Louise Boatman, and Mitzi Montgomery, whose doctoral theses and related papers and publications are housed in the fifth section. The typology also generated interest in more distant points in the United States and abroad, and the queries and findings of this group are also included here.

The series is arranged in the order in which Hollis assembled it, by broad categories.

This series, consisting of eighteen folders, five cassette tapes and an accompanying key, was created by Florence Hollis in 1985 and 1986 to help elucidate some of the early material in her papers. Hollis selected certain documents from the collection, had them copied and added explanatory notes in writing and on tape to make the material more accessible to researchers. Quite often the tapes record Hollis reading the less legible segments of the document aloud, although some of the cassettes do include background information about how and where the material was used. Most of the material from the tapes has been transcribed by the Sophia Smith Collection and housed in the appropriate folder.

Folders 1-4 contain copies of teaching notes from the 1930s with partial transcriptions and/or commentary. Folders 5-16 contain copies of notes for various speeches from 1930 to 1940 with accompanying transcription and/or commentary. Folder 17 contains copies of case notes and folder 18 provides a copy of the notes on Helen Perlman's book with transcription in the margins. The five tapes include material related to all 18 folders. The original documents have been integrated into appropriate series in the collection.

This series is divided into the photograph collections of Florence Hollis and Rosemary Reynolds. The series contains snapshots and more formal portraits of family members, friends and colleagues. Photographs of Betsey Libbey, Dame Eileen Younghusband and other notable social workers are included in the Forence Hollis section.

This series is arranged in five sections and follows a chronological order within each area. The first section contains biographical material about Reynolds and her family. The second section, correspondence, consists of a few letters generated between 1922 and 1984. The education section holds papers and notes from the various educational institutions Reynolds attended. Her Master of Social Work thesis, "Casework for First Years," is housed here. The fourth section, "Publications, Papers, and Speeches, begins with issues of The Spokesman written by Reynolds and includes other papers and publication from the early 1930s through 1959. The series concludes with materials related to Reynolds' professional activities. These include agency records, studies and reports, notes on conferences and seminars, and material on supervision. The agency records were chiefly generated at the Community Service Society of New York, where Reynolds was employed for twenty-nine years.