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 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 consists of ephemera related to 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 assorted financial records from Edel.

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

Series consists of manuscripts of writings by other authors, including Harold Clarke Goddard’s “Alphabets of the Imagination”, for which Edel wrote the preface, and Sandra Djwa’s “The Politics of the Imagination: A Life of F.R. Scott”.

Series consists of manuscripts and typescript drafts, proofs, and corrected proofs of Edel’s publications not directly related to Henry James. Publications for which drafts are found in this series include Edel’s memoirs, “Writing Lives”, “The Artist in Old Age”, “Stuff of Sleep and Dreams”, “The ‘Two Cultures’ and the Modern Imagination”, book reviews, “Shaping and Telling: The Biographer at Work”, “”Literary Biography”, a memoir of Louis Rapkine, and others. Drafts of various lectures are also included.