Thoughts, ideas, and reminders, jotted down on scraps of paper and on Rolodex cards, envelopes, notepads, in notebooks, and on newspaper clippings. Nature of the jottings includes opinions of people, writer’s notes, legal and tax issues, health issues, home decorating ideas, memories of Ben and of Jenny, and other editorial comments. Notes are not arranged or processed. Presumably most of the notes were created after Ben's death, ca. 1964-1978. There are also over 20 boxes of books annotated by Rose in the collection; a list of those titles is available in the Newberry Library's Special Collections Reading Room after the printed inventory of the collection.