The papers consist primarily of writings and some personal material regarding members of Mary Berenson's family: her parents, Hanna Whitall and Robert Pearsall Smith and some members of the Whitall family; her brother, writer Logan Pearsall Smith; and Mary's daughter, writer and feminist, Ray Strachey. They also include an essay on anti-semitism by Adrian Stephen, and a review of a book about the family, The Transatlantic Smiths.
