230 autograph letters signed, 6 typed letters signed, 53 autograph postcards signed, 4 Christmas cards and 1 telegram.
The files also contain:-
- typescript poem on the 'Duchess of Malfi', 1945;
- 1 autograph letter signed from Evelyn Hardy to Ashcroft, 25 May 1968;
- 1 autograph letter signed from Rachel Kempson to GHWR, p.m. 26 Mar. 1981;
- 1 autograph letter signed from Trekkie Parsons to GHWR, p.m. 3 Feb. 1984;
- copy of Samuel Beckett 'Happy Days' (Faber: London, 1966) and Robert Bearman 'Stratford upon Avon as it was' (Hendon Publishing: London, 1979);
- 3 colour photographs of Ashcroft: in India, [early 1980s], in Venice, 1989, performing at a recital, undated, 1 colour photograph of a portrait of Ashcroft, [?1970s];
- orders of service for her funeral at St Mary's Paddington, 21 June and memorial service at Westminster Abbey, 29 Nov. 1991.