Series consists of alphabetically arranged correspondence, largely following Davies' own arrangement (with a few files, titles indicated by square brackets, created at the NA from unorganized material). Some of the files are organized by the name of an individual correspondent (eg. T.J. Allen, Paul Arthur, Mel Ashton, Arthur Davies, Rupert Davies, Margaret Laurence, Grant Macdonald, Raymond Massey, Helen McGregor, Graham and Joan McInnes, and Herbert Whittaker), others by publisher (eg. Chatto and Windus, Clarke, Irwin and Company, Toronto Star Syndicate, Viking Penguin, and Weidenfeld & Nicolson) and others by literary agent (A.P. Watt & Son and Willis Kingsley Wing).
Series consists of files on theatre (eg. Dominion Drama Festival, Eastern Ontario Drama Festival, Kitchener-Waterloo Little Theatre, Lennoxville Festival, Montreal Repertory Theatre, National Arts Centre, Peterborough Little Theatre and Stratford Festival) and files on other organizations (eg. Canadian Authors' Association, Canadian Society for Italic Handwriting, Opera Festival Association of Toronto, and the University of Toronto). Some of the correspondence is organized by the title of Davies' work to which it refers (eg. At My Heart's Core, Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, The Manticore, etc.) and there are extensive files on his years with the Peterborough Examiner. Finally, some of the correspondence is organized in general alphabetical files (eg. "Correspondence H-L", some in "General" files and some in "Personal" files.)
Among the correspondents to be found in this series are the following: Graham McInnes, Horace Davenport, Douglas Duncan, Brian Doherty, Walter Herbert (Personal, 1946-1948); Mackenzie King, E.J. Pratt, H.L. Mencken, Dorothy Pfeiffer, C.C.J. Bond, Emrys Jones, Paul Hiebert, J.E. Atkinson, Philip Stratford, Tom Daly (Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947-1948); Ettore Mazzoleni (Editorials, 1946-1948); Davidson Dunton, Elsie Park Gowan, Alice Frick, Elsie Mackay (Overlaid, 1946-1948); Earle Birney (Canadian Authors Association, 1947-1948); Gillis Purcell (Canadian Press Contest, 1947-1948); Gordon Roper, Katherine Anglin, Anne Marriott, W.H. Clarke, H.S. Southam (Clubs, Societies, etc., 1946-1948); Michael Meiklejohn, Amelia Hall, Emrys Jones, Charles Rittenhouse, W.A. Irwin (Eros at Breakfast, 1947-1948, and Fortune My Foe, 1948).
Other correspondents include Robert Christie, Vincent Massey (Plays, 1949); Canadian International Screen Productions, Amelia Hall, Edith Evans, Tyrone Guthrie (Plays, 1948-1949); Edmund Blunden (Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks, 1949-1950); Robert Gill, Josephine Barrington, Michael Sadlier, Ralph Greenhill, Charles Rittenhouse (At My Heart's Core, 1949-1950); Dorothy Somerset, Herman Voaden (D.D.F., 1950); Mavor Moore, Elsie Park Gowan, Charles Peaker, Father Emile Legault, Pearl McCarthy, Robert Gill (General Correspondence re Plays and Books, 1950); Gratien Gélinas (Eros at Breakfast, 1949); Morley Callaghan, Robert Weaver, Horace Davenport, Vincent Massey, Gilbert Bagnani, Richard Needham, Brooke Claxton (Personal, 1950); Henry Beissel, Wallace Havelock Robb (Marchbanks, 1947-1953).
Later correspondents include Gillis Purcell, Peter de Vries, Vincent Massey, Hugh MacLennan, Murray Davis, Paul Arthur, Robert Weaver (General, 1958-1960); Brian Doherty, Edward Guillet, Harrison Showalter, Judith Anderson, J.B. Priestley, Donald Davis, Anthony Quayle (Personal, 1957); Yousuf Karsh, Pierre Berton, Brooke Claxton (Personal, 1958); Hugh Keenleyside, Vincent Massey (Personal, 1959); Douglas LePan, Michael Langham, Carl Klinck (H-L, 1963-1966); Dora Mavor Moore, Leon Major (M-Z, 1967-1972); Studs Terkel, Peter Newman (M-R, 1973-1976).
