The Sussex archive covers the period from 1944 to 1988. Its acquisition augments and supplements the archive of Kingsley Martin Papers which Sussex has held since 1969. Further collections of New Statesman material are to be found within the papers of Leonard Woolf and C.H. Rolph in the Sussex manuscript collections. There are 52 boxes of sorted papers in 7 broad categories. The main bulk of the material is Editorial Correspondence and Review Correspondence - letters to, from, and in some cases about, individuals in one alphabetical sequence or series of sequences.
Correspondence embraces letters, notes, postcards, telegrams and cables.
Enclosures, where relevant, are noted. The period divisions established by the NS for Kingsley Martin's Editorial Correspondence have been retained. Martin's file titles have been preserved. In all, KM's Correspondence and Topics amount to 18 boxes of papers. John Freeman succeeded Kingsley Martin as editor of the NS from 1960 to 1964 and his correspondence files are listed separately from Kingsley Martin's.