Material pertaining to McBride's writing including correspondence with publishers, drafts of short stories, two issues of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine in which she published stories, and the manuscript for "Chicago Cop" an unpublished "as-told-to" memoir of retired police detective Ed Carmody. Also includes a few letters from Lawrence J. McBride to Anita prior to their marriage and diaries kept from 1972 to 1999 which detail Anita McBride's return to school, her daily life with family and friends, and her struggles as a writer.