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The Financial Papers series comprises 8 items in total, including bank statements, an account sheet, and three canceled checks signed by Dorothy Parker. One of these checks, to the Migratory Worker’s Fund, reflects Parker’s growing interest in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s in Socialist and Communist causes.

The Writings series consists of typescripts with holograph annotations. The series contains writings by Campbell, Parker, the Campbell and Parker team, and other authors. Campbell’s writings comprise five story fragments and three script fragments. Among the script fragments is Told to the Children, written with Robert Stevenson. Scripts written by the team of Campbell and Parker include Hands Across the Table (for Paramount, 1935); Legal Holiday (for Columbia); Mary Burns, Fugitive ( for Paramount, 1935); Thirteen Hours by Air , The Case Against Mrs. Ames , and Two on a Tower (for Paramount, 1935). There are also several pieces of the script for A Star is Born (for United Artists, 1937), written with Robert Carson and nominated for an Academy Award. Parker’s writings include her play, The Coast of Illyria , written with Ross Evans and first staged in Dallas at the Margo Jones Theatre, in April 1949. This series also includes fragments of several stories, including “Clothe the Naked” (published in 1939); “Cousin Larry” (published in the New Yorker in 1934); “The Custard Heart” (published in 1939); “Glory in the Daytime” (published in 1933); “Just a Little One” (published in 1930); “Lady with a Lamp;” and “Star in the Window.”

The Writings series also contains typescripts from contemporaries of Parker and Campbell, including Stephen Vincent Benet, Eliott Nugent, John O’Hara, Eugenie Ratoff and George George, Robert Penn Warren and Sagittarius (a.k.a. Olga Katzin). There are three stories for which the authors are unknown.