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Typescript drafts of Chapters 1-3 of Deprived children: the Mersham experiment, a social and clinical study by Hilda Lewis (Oxford University Press, 1954), with handwritten comments by Dr Carlos Paton ('Pip') Blacker. Also draft introduction by Blacker.

The Royal Sanitary Institute Journal (Jul 1955), including the lecture 'Family background and behaviour' by Hilda Lewis, given at The Royal Sanitary Institute Health Congress at Bournemouth, Apr 1955; reports of discussions and comments by attendees of the conference, and responses given by authors including Hilda Lewis.

The Caldecott Community: A Study of Forty-eight Years, by Leila Rendel, including information relating to the pilot experimental children's reception centre in Mersham, Kent.

Copies of: the Adoption of Children Act, 1926; the Adoption of Children (Regulation) Act, 1939; Statutory Rules and Orders 1943 No1306: Adoption of Children, England; Statutory Instruments No 2396 (L 31) Adoption of Children: The Adoption of Children (County Court) Rules, 1949.

Press cuttings of articles and book reviews relating to Deprived children: the Mersham experiment, a social and clinical study by Hilda Lewis; manuscript copy of review by Samuel R Pinneau, published in Psychological Bulletin, Nov 1955.

National Association of Nursery Matrons Annual Conference Report, including lecture by Hilda Lewis on 'Follow up of adoption', and transcript of open discussion on the subject between Hilda Lewis and attendees of the conference.

National Association for Maternal and Child Welfare report of Annual Conference, 'Children normal and abnormal - their needs and how to meet them', including lectures by Hilda Lewis on 'Preserving the mental health of children' and 'Care and education of the expectant mother'.

Interim report of the Children's Reception Centre, Mersham, Kent, with preliminary unbound copy.

'Report of Hilda Stoessiger's Trip to Russia 1931' by Naomi Cream (daughter of Hilda Stoessiger), including transcripts of Hilda Stoessiger's (later Hilda Lewis) original notes, articles and snapshot photographs.

Receipts for payments made by Hilda Lewis (writing as Hilda Stoessiger) to Florence Lewis and Ursula Shelley, who deputised for Hilda Lewis at Royal Free Hospital vaccination classes and at the Loughborough Junction Maternity and Child Welfare Centre, Brixton during her absence.

Published proceedings of the 1968 and 1969 conferences of the Medical Group of the Standing Conference of Societies Registered for Adoption (subsequently renamed the Association of British Adoption Agencies), including texts of the first and second Hilda Lewis Memorial Lectures, 'Assessment for adoption' by Prof Ronald Stanley Illingworth, and 'The selection of adopters: questions regarding authority and reasoning' by David Kirk, Journal of the Association of British Adoption Agencies (later renamed again, as British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering), 1971, including the third Memorial Lecture, 'The dark side of adoption', by Christopher Ounsted. Three editions of Adoption and fostering, the Journal of British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering, 1987, 1989 and 1990, including the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first Memorial Lectures: 'Prediction in child care', by Sula Wolff; 'The health needs of young people in care', by Jean Harris Hendriks'; 'What do children need from parents?' by Dora Black.

Press cutting from the Evening Standard concerning children being sent abroad for adoption; press cutting from the Evening News concerning a shortage of children available for adoption.

Press cutting entitled 'Home Sweet Homes', published in The Independent, which refers to the Caldecott Community in Ashford, Kent.

Brief manuscript notes on topics including Russian history, economic conditions, the social status of Russian women, and the theories of Russian psychologists Pavel Petrovitch Blonsky and Lev Vygotsky; preparatory reading list for the scientists' tour; itinerary for visit to Leningrad; pages from Russian newspaper The Tractor; postcard views of Moscow, Leningrad and Dyetskoye Selo, USSR, and of Hamburg, Germany.

Snapshot photographs of members of the scientists' tour of the USSR, views of St Petersburg, Kiev, Moscow, River Volga, and of Russian agricultural workers.

Personal letters to Hilda Lewis, concerning her ill health (she died on 24 October 1966).

Personal letters to Hilda Lewis, chiefly relating to family and friends.

Page from Bulletin of World Federation for Mental Health, containing announcement of the imminent opening of the Hilda Lewis Unit (subsequently named Hilda Lewis House) for mentally disabled children at Bethlem Royal Hospital; programme and accompanying map for the visit of HRH Princess Alexandra to Hilda Lewis House and the Bethlem Royal Hospital.