The papers include the first draft of The Meaning of Meaning, the work Ogden co-authored with the literary critic I.A. Richards; material relating to Psyche, including correspondence with the authors of Ogden's series of Psyche Monographs and Psyche Miniatures; letters from Ogden's friend, the artist James Wood; material relating to the attempts of Ogden and Ivy Litvinov, the British-born wife of the Soviet Foreign Minister, to introduce Basic English into Russia; and letters from E.B.F. Wareing, many dating from his time in Germany with the Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commission between 1918 and 1929.