Series consists of clippings and off-prints about Edel and other authors including Willa Cather, Ezra Pound, and William Yeats.

Series consists of Edel's correspondence related to research on Henry James. Included are letters from some personal friends and other contemporaries of James, such as Percy Lubbock and Edith Wharton. Also included are over 1,500 pages of correspondence dating between 1937 and 1955 with Allan Wade. Other correspondents include Caroline Kipling, Anita Leslie, Sir Shane Leslie, and Theodora Bosanquet, James's long-time amanuensis. The series also contains correspondence with some James family members, including Michael James, Alexander James, Frederika (Mrs. Alexander) James, Maggie (Mrs. Samuel Spruul) James.

Series contains Edel’s personal materials, including notes and drafts for his memoirs, correspondence and notebooks from the war years, family correspondence with Edel's wife Roberta, brother Abraham and other family members, and notebooks kept while abroad during the 1940s.

Series consists of assorted financial records from Edel.

Series consists of four contains of audio-visual materials and microfilms. here are four boxes. The first container contains microfilm and audiocassettes, for which a full list of items descriptions is found. The second container contains unsorted and uncounted personal photographs of Edel and his friends. The third container contains design and layout materials for some of Edel’s books. The fourth container contains oversized materials from other series.

Series consists of ephemera related to Edel.

Series consists of correspondence with James family members, including Alice R. James, Dorothea James, Edward H. James, Henry James III, John James, Margaret Mary James (Mrs. Bruce Porter), William James III, Mary James Vaux, and Henry James Vaux.

Series contains correspondence related to Edel's research on James and inquiries regarding James's correspondence, arranged into alphabetical files by correspondent.

Series consists of chiefly of notebooks of transcriptions of letters from Henry James and Edel's notes, based on thousands of James letters that Edel located and consulted during many decades of research. Bulk of transcriptions are from letters dating between 1865 and 1916. Also contains some copies of letters James family correspondence and copies of letters from James Russell Lowell to James.

Series contains duplicates of correspondence.