MS Gen 1034 includes:
- Typescripts drafts, final versions and proofs of plays, essays, poems and short stories
- Correspondence 1934, 1942
- Personal travel journal 1886-1887
- Offprints of Paterson's work in journals 1904-1908
- Photographic portraits of William Paterson and his mother, Marion Paterson, c1870-1951
MS Gen 1614 includes:
- Typescripts and galleys of plays and poems
- Presscuttings and offprints relating to William Paterson and his work 1917-1923
- Photographs of William Paterson; correspondence with his brother, James Venn Paterson 1918-1941
- General correspondence 1923-1941
- Correspondence of Marion Peterson 1897-1911