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Leaflet entitled 'Adopting a Child', aimed at prospective adoptive parents; leaflet entitled 'If You Are Adopted', aimed at adopted adolescents, by Hilda Lewis and Margaret Kornitzer. Issued by the Standing Conference of Societies Registered for Adoption.

Annotated lecture notes by Hilda Lewis on 'Adoption Societies and the Selection of Adoptive Parents', given at the Royal Medico Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Southampton.

Psychological Aspects of the Deprived Child' by Hilda Lewis, Medical World: The Journal of General Practice (Feb 1956).

Medical Responsibility in Adoption', by Hilda Lewis, reprinted from British Medical Journal (16 Apr 1960).

Article, 'Some recent advances in the study of early deprivation', by A D B Clarke and Ann M Clarke, published in Child psychology and psychiatry (1960), which contains references from Deprived children: the Mersham experiment, a social and clinical study.

Adoption', by Hilda Lewis, reprinted from British Medical Journal (4 Sep 1965).

Medical responsibility in adoption' by Hilda Lewis in Medical Aspects of Child Adoption: a collection of papers by various authorities, by Hilda Lewis (honorary editor), published by the Standing Conference of Societies Registered for Adoption; accompanying letter from Hilda Lewis, to the Editor of 'Medical World'.

Typescript articles and notes by Edward Mapother, Medical Superintendent of the Maudsley Hospital, relating to the scientists' tour to the USSR, Aug 1931, including two copies of 'Soviet Medicine and Hygiene', published in The British Medical Journal, 5 Dec 1931, with contributions by Hilda Lewis (publishing as Hilda Stoessiger); letter by Valentina Watson, printed in The British Medical Journal, 2 Jan 1932, contesting the article's favourable view of medical training and health care provision in the USSR; typescript copies of 'Russia', 'Science Made to Order' and 'Mental Hygiene and Mental Treatments in Russia; manuscript notes by Naomi Cream, 2005, including her doubts on the authorship of 'Science Made to Order'.

Articles by Leslie Haden Guest, member of the scientists' tour to the USSR, published in the Daily Telegraph, Sep 1931, and The Lancet, 21 Nov 1931, on recent social, economic and health care changes in the USSR.

Blank application forms for the admission of a child to a Church of England Incorporated Society Home, requesting details of the circumstances of the parents and of the child's birth and social history; blank form requesting the medical history of the child; draft certificate for a returned serviceman to give consent for the adoption of an illegitimate child born to his wife during his absence on overseas service; National Children Adoption Association application form for the admission of a child for adoption; form requiring the consent of the parents to the adoption of their child; application form for those intending to adopt a child; blank application form of the National Children's Home and Orphanage Registered Adoption Society; form for the admission of a child for adoption; form for the medical particulars of the child; form relating to the particulars of the adoptive parents; memorandum for parents wishing to put their child up for adoption; information notes for adoptive parents.

Career summaries for Hilda Lewis, outlining her professional posts 1948-1953.

Letters to Hilda Stoessiger (later Hilda Lewis) from tour member Archibald Gilpin, King's College Hospital, detailing his impressions of the USSR; letter from Hilda Stoessiger to a Miss Carey, describing Leningrad and Moscow, and Russian medical institutions, with typescript transcript of the letter by Naomi Cream [2005].

Correspondence between Hilda Lewis and members of the public relating to child adoption, chiefly in response to article about children in need of adoption published in the Daily Mirror, 24 Sep 1954.

Correspondence relating to Deprived children: the Mersham experiment, a social and clinical study by Hilda Lewis, chiefly letters of thanks from medical and social welfare personnel to whom the book had been sent, including a letter from psychiatrist Dr [Edward] John [Mostyn] Bowlby, with a copy of his letter to The Times, 28 September 1954 on Hilda Lewis's findings.

Correspondence chiefly between Naomi Cream and the British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering, relating to the Hilda Lewis Memorial Lectures, including the ending of the lecture series, 1995, due to lack of funding.

James Fenton, Public Health Department, Kensington to Hilda Lewis, 25 Jan 1938, requesting information on the work of her child guidance clinic at Princess Louise Hospital, Kensington, with two drafts of Lewis' reply, outlining the types of cases treated, describing the clinic's working methods and the problems of staff shortages.

Typescript drafts of paper, 'Clinical Medicine in the USSR' by Hilda Stoessiger (later Hilda Lewis), detailing her impressions of health care provision and research in Soviet Russia.

Typescript draft of Deprived children: the Mersham experiment, a social and clinical study by Hilda Lewis (Oxford University Press, 1954).