This collection contains material created and collected by Wallace and Corry Nethery, primarily related to their various book printing projects, and includes correspondence, drafts, research notes, newspaper clippings, and advertisements.

There is also a significant amount of material related to Corry Nethery's 1987 biography of Elisabeth Jungmann (The Second Lady Beerbohm). These papers consist of both research photocopies and correspondence, some of it in German. Other research files and correspondence on Charles Lamb and Max Beerbohm are also collected here.

This collection also contains offprints ofjournal and magazine articles, as well as papers, letters, certificates, and ephemera related to Wallace Nethery's work at USC. Personal correspondence, including letters written in English, German and Dutch, are also included.