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The Correspondence series is divided into three subseries. The first subseries, dated 1896-1966, also the first to be processed, is heavily weighted toward the period when Cramton was a member of Congress and in the period when he served in the Interior Department, roughly from the mid-1920s to 1933. There is a partial index to correspondents appended to this finding aid for the materials in this first portion of the collection. Cramton corresponded with a wide range of important public figures and notable organizations, such as the American Indian Defense Association, the Anti-Saloon League of America, Hiram Johnson, Mordecai Johnson, Michigan governors Kim Sigler and G. Mennen Williams, U.S. Senator Arthur Vandenberg, and conservationist Gifford Pinchot. This first subseries, though largely correspondence, also includes a scattering of other materials such as memoranda and speeches. The second subseries, though it covers much the same period as the first, 1920-1966, was received following Cramton's death, and includes more personal materials, such as letters of appreciation and letters that Cramton chose not to donate when he was alive. The last subseries consists of letters that Cramton exchanged with members of his family, mainly with his son Louis Kay Cramton, with whom he had a close relationship.

The Correspondence series (1897-1965, undated) includes letters, memos, and some postcards and is organized by accession and chronologically. The first accession includes earlier correspondence and postcards, while the second accession contains letters predominantly exchanged between Randall and Smith during their collaborative work in the 1950s-1960s. Other correspondents include Niels Bohr, J. C. Bose, Walter Colby, and George Kubica. Topics related to research projects are covered, including summaries, meeting notes, progress reports, questions about data, and equipment concerns.

The Correspondence series dates from 1899 to 1936 with some scattering of family and estate materials dating up to 1943. It is the largest series in the collection and concerns family matters, highway transportation, the automobile industry, general economic conditions, foreign trade, World War I, national defense, state and national politics, the Republican Party, and University of Michigan affairs. Correspondents include national and state political and business leaders.

The first nine feet (boxes 1-9) consist of five feet of correspondence and other papers arranged chronologically (1905-1964), and four feet of unarranged financial reports, scrapbooks, membership lists, and miscellaneous association records.

Correspondence, 1908-1949 (Microfilm rolls 1-91, Manuscript boxes 1-47). The series has been arranged chronologically, with undated letters placed at the end of the relevant month, year, or decade, depending on which is apparent, or at the very end of the series, if no date is apparent. Other undated letters have been categorized by periods of Murphy's life (e.g., Detroit period, gubernatorial period, etc.) and placed at the end of the period. The Bentley Historical Library has a large (but not complete) name index to the incoming correspondence files (boxes 100-103, not microfilmed).

The largest series in the collection is the Correspondence which dates from 1908 to 1949 with most of the files falling in the period of the 1920s when Comstock was active in business and in the affairs of the state Democratic Party. Correspondence for the period when he was governor and after are slight. The series, although labeled as Correspondence, also includes a mixture of other types of business and legal documentation. The correspondence is of most importance for its documentation of Comstock as a successful man of business.