Most of the items donated to the Archives are from Hoffman's years at Ohio State University
(1942-1947). A majority of the correspondence and interviews are related to the research and
publication work that Hoffman conducted for his books Freudianism and
the Literary Mind (1945), The Little Magazine: A History
and a Bibliography (1946), and The Twenties: American
Writing in the Postwar Decade (1949). They include letters from collaborators,
responses to research inquiries, and letters relating the publication of his works.
Scope and content notes of each series are included in the contents list.