Arranged alphabetical by title. Correspondence relating to a particular work is kept with the manuscript or typescript in the last folder of the grouping. Shorter works are filed under the heading "Additional Titles" which follows the main alphabetical sequence. (For a complete list of titles of works in this series see the abbreviated title list for Series Seven.) Notes and source materials are in the last boxes of the series.

By examining the collection of literary productions in this series, including some that remain unpublished, one can trace the stages of Robins's work on her books, articles, plays and short stories. Correspondence from friends, most commonly Florence Bell and William Archer, shows that Robins solicited criticism for the drafts of her writing. Her works expand our knowledge of subjects such as the American and English theater, the Alaskan Gold Rush and women's suffrage, as well as other political issues. Her use of family members as the basis of several fictional pieces provides insight into her American background.

Among Robins's theater-related writings are "On Tour," which tells of travelling with Edwin Booth's American acting company; Theatre and Friendship, a collection of letters between Robins and Henry James; and Both Sides of the Curtain, an account of Robins's early experiences with the English theater. Two unpublished works, "Whither and How" and "Heights and Depths" continue where Both Sides left off. There are also several articles and speeches about Henrik Ibsen and a typescript for "Ibsen and the Actress." "The Coming Woman" and "Katherine Fleets," both unfinished, are fictionalized accounts of Robins's experiences and observations on the theatrical world.

Two novels, a play and several short stories grew out of Robins's 1900 journey to the Alaska gold fields. She wrote the novels The Magnetic North and Come and Find Me after returning to England from Alaska. Her short stories with Alaskan themes include: "The Alaska Boundary," "The Caribou Stand," "Monica's Village," and Pleasure Mining." There is an Alaskan play, "The Bowarra," written with Florence Bell's assistance, and a collection of short stories, "The Go to Sleep Stories," using Alaskan characters.

Also reflected in Robins's writings is her interest in women's suffrage. There is the play Votes for Women! and the novel it became, The Convert. The articles "Christabel" and "Christabel Pankhurst and White Slavery" comment upon the well-known leader of the English suffrage movement. Way Stations, published in 1913, is a collection of articles and speeches Robins wrote in favor of women's suffrage.

Another collection of political writings, Ancilla's Share, (published in 1924) addresses questions of equality for women and blacks and issues relating to war and peace. "The Short Cut," never published, is an earlier work which covers some of the same themes.

It is clear that Robins used family members as models for the characters in several of her writings. The Open Question, published in 1898, has characters resembling her father, Charles E. Robins, and her grandmother, Jane H. Robins. "Him and Her," a story about a man who faces his wife in divorce court after she has left him for another man, resembles the story of Charles E. Robins and his first wife, Sarah Sullivan. "Theodora, or The Pilgrimage," "The Pleiades," and "Rocky Mountain Journal," all contain characters based on family members (including Elizabeth Robins).

There are manuscripts and/or typescripts for most of Robins's published books, including Where are You Going To?, or My Little Sister, about the white slave traffic, and Below the Salt, a collection of short stories featuring servants for which Robins used letters from one of her housekeepers as a source. (See C. Kohler's letters in Series Two: General Correspondence. Robins referred to these letters as ''Vroni-isms" after the title character in one of the short stories. For a complete list of Robins's published books, see Appendix I.)

Noticeably missing from this series are the manuscripts and typescripts for Alan's Wife (1893), written in collaboration with Florence Bell; George Mandeville's Husband (1894); and The New Moon (1895). Also missing is Prudence and Peter (1928), a cookbook for children which Robins wrote with Octavia Wilberforce. Raymond and I, Robins's memoir of her relationship with her brother, is incomplete and there is no typescript.

The materials in Subseries C: Literary Sources are notes which Robins presumably used or intended to use for her writings. They are housed in folders corresponding to Robins's organization. Of special interest are the suffrage notes which include transcripts of open air suffrage meetings held in 1906.

Many of the manuscripts in this series are held together by small straight pins. Overlapping pieces of paper sometimes make it difficult to read all of Robins's passages. Researchers wishing to read words obstructed by pinned notes must contact the curator for assistance.