The records contain an outline of the major in English and policy regarding honor students. Revisions of department offerings and courses are included in the records in addition to agenda for department faculty meetings. Advertising materials, including flyers, press releases, schedules, programs, and brochures, pertain to the department itself and to special events in the department such as lectures, performances, conferences, and clinics. Minutes from department faculty meetings are included in the records, and these contain information about weak students, faculty members, course content, events, graduation requirements, contests, texts used, the Glascock Poetry Prize, entrance examinations, placement tests, lectures, Freshman English, distribution requirements, and progress of the Freshman class. Committee meeting minutes include information about the Committee on Revision of Offerings of the Department and the Curriculum Committee.
Correspondence consists mainly of letters and memoranda between faculty members.
Topics of correspondence include course content, department events, daily happenings in the department, faculty appointments, requests for increased space for the department, finances, needs of the department, the 1937 Centennial Celebration, students, tenure, and course scheduling. The records also contain a statement regarding the name, curriculum, and courses of the department presented to the President of the College and a report on the English Clinic. The records include grant proposals, enrollment statistics, and evaluation forms and statistics. Faculty information is also contained in the records, including faculty committee assignments, instructional loads, annual reports on individual activity, and information about reappointment, promotion, and tenure. Reports on graduate students, international students, and honor work can be found in the records, including lists of honor students and thesis topics, and lists of students doing independent work and their topics.