File primarily contains letters from individuals, but also includes copy letters of Edith Simon. Identified correspondents include Dr. C.W. Fishburne, Edinburgh University Students' Association; James Holland; Ron and Elizabeth Birse; 'Margaret'; James Bustard, The Scottish Arts Council; Dorothy Thompson; 'Bob'; possibly 'Peter'; Gillian Calvert, Womens Images; Rufford Craft Centre; 'Carole', Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh; Elisabeth M. Bell, The Library, Tate Gallery; 'Julia'; possibly Sandra Haworth; 'Sue'; Marco Livingstone, Museum of Modern Art Oxford; 'Ros and Jonathan'; possibly 'Desmond' Flower; 'Bob'; 'Peter', King's College, Cambridge; possibly 'April' Taylor; 'Minty and David'; Sean Hignett; 'Bella' Kaufman; K.A. Taylor; 'Ruth'; 'Philip'; Antonia Reeve; 'Neville', British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 'Ros'; Nichola Fletcher; Nicholas M. Pearson; Professor Teodor Shanin, Faculty of Economic and Social Studies, University of Manchester; Hilda Butler, Glasgow Group; Michael Dale, Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society; Richard Course, Animal Protection Alliance; possibly 'Veronica', The Scottish Ballet; Frances Carter; and possibly 'Daniel'.

File also contains a series of letters to Edith on the death of her mother, Grete Simon (August-September 1983); papers from Dorothy Thompson concerning the book 'Over Our Dead Bodies: Women Against the Bomb'; details from E. Ploton (Sundries) Ltd. concerning a new Gallery Studio Easel; papers concerning Edith Simon's reconstructed painting of the First Committee of the Artists International Association; papers concerning a submission of work by Edith Simon to the Pandora's Box exhibition held by Womens Images in London in May-June 1983; and a series of copied typescript poems by Herbert Read, W.H. Auden, William Blake, Geoffrey Chaucer, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Michael Hamburger, Louis MacNeice, and William Plomer.