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The Manuscripts series is comprised of Outgoing Correspondence, written from Dumas to various recipients. Eight letters represent the author's personal, quotidian contacts from a letter to one of his many mistresses to a letter possibly to François Harel, who requested that Dumas re-write the play, "La Tour de Nesle" from Jules Janin's manuscript. The subseries also includes a letter to a creditor, a letter to a family friend (with a note included from Dumas' daughter, Marie Alexandrine), a letter requesting a loan, a letter written when Dumas was serving in the National Guard, and a letter concerning the staging of a play.

Also included in the Manuscripts series are five nearly complete essays, many of them possibly written for Dumas' French and Italian Newspaper, "L'Indipendente." Two items are likely notes for larger works. There is a complete copy of Dumas' re-written version of "La Tour de Nesle." There is also a fragment of Dumas' play, "Urbain Grandier," which was written with collaborator Auguste Maquet and was first performed at Dumas' Théâtre Historique on March 30, 1850.

A fragment of Jules Janin's "La Tour de Nesle" is also included in this series.