The collection consists of two handwritten thank-you notes from Beckett to Robert Cochran (a writer and a professor in the University of Arkansas Department of English), as well as a copy of a book review. Cochran is the author of Samuel Beckett: A Study of the Short Fiction (1991), and also wrote his doctoral thesis, "'Unmakable Love': A Study of the Plays of Samuel Beckett" (1973) on Beckett's work.

Letters from the British twentieth-century novelist and literary critic Frank Arthur Swinnerton and his wife Mary Swinnerton to Irish novelist Norah Hoult.

Forty TLSs and one ALS from Frank Swinnerton to Irish novelist Norah Hoult, pertaining to his and her personal, familial, and professional concerns, to their shared literary interests, and to various personal and professional affairs of contemporary literary colleagues.