This series includes a variety of material by and about Florence Rose that documents her personal and professional experiences, including both her accomplishments and her difficulties. It is arranged in the following eight subseries: Writings about Rose, Personal records and mementos, Miscellaneous writings by Rose, Letters about Rose's death, Tributes to Rose, Address books and calendars, Awards, and Photographs. The bulk of the items in this series date from 1923 to 1969. Writings about Rose consists of biographical sketches, newspaper clippings, resumes, and letters of recommendation, all of which document Rose's professional history. The psychological analysis and autobiographical material in this subseries contain information about Rose's inner life and day-to-day activities. Personal records and mementos contains material that Rose compiled to document experiences she viewed as central in her life. Included in this material are correspondence and records pertaining to the t

This series contains both personal and professional correspondence dating from 1923-1968. It is arranged in two subseries: General and Individuals. General correspondence consists of letters from people or organizations who were not among Rose's regular correspondents. These letters are arranged chronologically. Individual correspondence is subdivided into two sections, "Family" and "Friends and associates," with each category arranged alphabetically and each folder containing incoming and outgoing letters. Because of her close associations with prominent individuals such as Margaret Sanger and Pearl Buck, Rose's correspondence includes not only Sanger and Buck, but also other such significant signatories as Mary Beard, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Havelock Ellis, Emma Goldman, Baroness Shidzue Kato, Judge Anna Moscowitz Kross, Attorney Harriet Pilpel, Noah H. Slee, and H.G. Wells. The Sanger correspondence in this series contains only letters exchanged between Sanger and Rose. For S

This series, the largest in the collection, documents Rose's professional and personal activities and interests from the 1930s through the 1960s. It is arranged in two subseries: Birth control activities and Other activities, with each arranged alphabetically by the name of the organization or activity.

Birth control activities consists of material generated by organizations founded by Margaret Sanger such as the American Birth Control League, the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau (later called the Margaret Sanger Research Bureau), the Birth Control Review, International Planned Parenthood Federation, the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control, and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. It also contains a much smaller amount of material from a few other more minor birth control organizations such as the Birth Control Council of America and the Voluntary Parenthood League. Types of material in this subseries include founding documents, annual reports, correspondence, memoranda, agendas, legal documents, lists, minutes, conference programs, proposals, newspaper clippings, printed material, publicity, reports, resolutions, and speeches.

Most of the material contained in Other activities documents Florence Rose's associations with organizations that employed her after she left Planned Parenthood in 1943. These organizations include the East and West Foundation, the Tucson Medical Center, and the Meals for Millions Foundation. Also included in this subseries are a few documents relating to explicitly political organizations with which Rose had brief associations including the Citizens Committee to Free Earl Browder, the National Citizens Political Action Committee, the National Council of Women, and the National Woman's Party. There is also a small amount of material relating to other interests that Rose pursued over the course of her adult life. These include Mary Beard's World Center for Women's Archives which presumably shaped Rose's interest in preserving papers for archival collections, and Rancho la Puerta, a spa in Northern Mexico where Rose spent considerable time during the last years of her life. Types of material in this

This series is arranged alphabetically by subject and includes topics in which Rose had a particular interest including the birth control movement, contraception, population, Margaret Sanger, sex education, sterilization, and World War II. The bulk of the material in this series relates to the birth control movement, contraception, and Margaret Sanger. Though the series contains a couple of nineteenth century documents relating to population, the vast majority of the material dates from the 1920s to the 1960s. The series consists largely of newspaper clippings and printed material. The exception is the material on Margaret Sanger which is much more diverse. Biographical material on Sanger includes writings about her, interviews, itineraries and travelogues, tributes, funeral records, and photographs. Rose also collected some of Sanger's third party correspondence from 1917-1965 including such significant signatories as Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Wallis Windsor, Carrie Chapman Catt,