Marian McNeill had a wide circle of friends which included literary figures such as Neil Gunn, Catherine Carswell and Edwin and Willa Muir. Much of the correspondence is on literary topics and concerns her own work, especially her novel ‘The road home’, (London, 1932), and that of her correspondents. Most of the later letters concern her M.B.E., awarded in 1962, and the death of her sister in 1969.