The Grace Kellogg Smith Papers is 3 linear ft. and consists primarily of biographical materials, research files on Edith Wharton, and the materials regarding publication of The Two Lives of Edith Wharton (1965). Biographical materials include scrapbooks of notes about, and photographs of, Smith and her family. The EdithWharton research material includes notes and drafts of her 1953 master's thesis; and notes, drafts, a manuscript, correspondence, and reviews related to the publication of The Two Lives of Edith Wharton. Other material in the collection includes correspondence about, and a copy of, her novels Arise and Go, The Beloved Tenant, Crosbys of Henry County Illinois, The House and The Silent Drum. The collection also includes articles she wrote for the Provincetown (Mass.) Advocate during the 1960s among others.

The collection is comprised mostly of manuscripts written from 1907 to 1953. Included are newspaper columns, published and unpublished stories, novels, plays, and other miscellaneous written material. The scrapbooks include clippings of correspondence, reviews from the New York Times and the Boston Evening Transcript, among others, and columns from Elizabeth Daily Journal dated between 1923-26. The bulk of the correspondence dates from 1963 to 1977. Correspondence makes up only a small portion of the collection. Included are exchanges with the Sophia Smith Collection regarding the acquisition of her collection. Notable correspondents include Margaret Grierson, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis.

This collection is organized into three series:

• I. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS and CORRESPONDENCE
• II. WRITINGS
• III. SCRAPBOOKS