This series contains correspondence reflecting Charles J. Finger's personal as well as literary development.  He was a voracious, interesting, and widely-read correspondent.  Significant correspondents are Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, Philip Cornick, Glenn Ward Dresbach, John Gould Fletcher, James Keddie (See Finger-Keddie correspondence, MC 640), H.L. Mencken, Vance Randolph, William Marion Reedy, Carl Sandburg, George Bernard Shaw, Charlie May Simon Fletcher, George Stirling, Wilbur Stone (see Finger-Stone correspondence, MC 449), and Sara Teasdale Filsinger.