The Original Papers (Boxes 1-3) consist mainly of correspondence of Sara Teasdale to her husband Ernst B. Filsinger (1914-1931) relating to her work and personal life, often written while Ernst was traveling around the world for business. She discusses her health, works in progress, her publications, friends and family, and her thoughts on contemporary poets. In some of her letters, Sara includes drafts of her poems for Ernst to review. Other letters of Sara include those to Mamie Teasdale Wheless (1910, 1924), Mr. and Mrs. Filsinger (1915), Vine Colby (1915-1932, typed copies and excerpts), Williamina Parrish (1907-1918, 1932, typed copies and excerpts), Grace Parrish (1931-1932), Robert Underwood Johnson (1911), William Stanley Braithwaite (1913), Mr. Herts (1915), Thomas J. Walker (1920), Ethel Green Talbot (1923), and the Missouri Historical Society (1915). Letters of other correspondents to Sara include Ernst Filsinger (1926-1927), Chato and Windus (1919), Edward J. Wheeler (1920), Ellen F. Pendleton (1922), Jonathan Cape (1923), and Reno divorce attorneys Ayres, Gardiner and Pike (1929). The collection also includes letters about Sara from various correspondents. These include letters of Mamie Teasdale Wheless (1933, 1940, 1945), Margaret Conklin (1933, 1937), John Hall Wheelock (1937), Hazzel Lukas (1947), and Helen de France (1938) to Grace and Williamina Parrish; a letter of Williamina Parrish to Mrs. D.L. Parrish (1911, excerpt); a letter of Vachel Lindsey to Harriet Converse Tilden Moody (1914, excerpt); a letter of A.M. Bettencourt to Ernst Filsinger (1925); letters of Mamie Teasdale Wheless to Reader’s Digest (1945) and Charles van Ravenswaay, Missouri Historical Society (1949, 1952); a letter of Vine Colby to Ned (Edna Wahlert) (1945); a letter of Charles van Ravenswaay to Mrs. Augusta Martin (1949); letters of Max Putzel regarding publication of Sara Teasdale’s letters (1953); and a letter of Charles P. Barwis to Jessie Katz (1956), regarding the death of Mamie Teasdale Wheless. The collection includes information on family genealogy, the 1914 marriage announcement of Sara and Ernst, information on the Potters, photographs, newspaper clippings about Sara and her works, books of poetry, drafts of Sara’s poems, souvenir postcards, an article by Ernst B. Filsinger titled “Wasting Our Consuls” (1920), reminiscences about Sara Teasdale and the Potters by Vine Colby, and a transcript of the will of Sara Teasdale. In the Addendum (Boxes 4-8), the Correspondence Subseries in the Sara Teasdale Papers consists of letters of Sara and Ernst to his parents and sisters (1914-1929). The Literary Productions Subseries contains typescripts of poems by Sara and German translations of her poetry by Rudolph Rieder. The Legal Papers Subseries contains divorce papers of Sara and Ernst, Sara’s will, and papers regarding her estate settlement after the death of Ernst. The Printed Matter Subseries contains newspaper clippings about Sara and a scrapbook regarding activities of Sara and Ernst. The Ernst Filsinger Papers contain a Correspondence Subseries with letters to his parents and sisters (1907-1929) and a collection of postcards. The Legal Papers Subseries contains his passports, will, indenture of trust, and business papers. The Printed Matter Subseries contains articles written by Ernst on trade and newspaper clippings about Ernst and collected by him. The Associated Materials Series includes letters of Mamie Teasdale Wheless to the sisters of Ernst Filsinger (1932-1944) regarding the deaths of their siblings, letters of William Drake to Lisette Marsh (1976-1980) regarding his biography on Sara Teasdale, and two children’s scrapbooks of the Filsinger family.