Twelve letters, handwritten and typescript; eight postcards; and three cards. Some of the people mentioned include: Rachel and Toby Harwood, John Harwood’s children; various colleagues and literary friends of Gwen Harwood; Omar Pound, son of Ezra Pound and grandson of Olivia Shakespear, the latter of whom John Harwood was writing a biography from 1985 to 1986; Robin F. Haines, John Harwood's partner, then wife, from 1986; Mary, Chris and Peter Harwood, John Harwood's siblings; Warwick Gould and Deirdre Toomey, his close friends in London, both Yeats scholars; Humphrey Carpenter, a British biographer and radio broadcaster whom John and Robin visited in Oxford; Peter Goldsworthy, Australian writer and medical practitioner, and his wife Helen; Anne Jennings, Gwen Harwood's close friend; Vikram Seth, Indian author, scholar, singer, musician and close friend of Gwen who visited John Harwood and Robin Haines. Gwen's children often addressed her as ‘Moth’, short for 'Mother'.