Includes letters, poems and songs by J. R. R. Tolkien sent to Eric Valentine Gordon, Ida Gordon and Bridget MacKenzie.
Gordon was a philologist at the University of Leeds who became a close friend of Tolkien's. Ida Gordon (née Pickles), Eric Gordon's wife, was an academic specialising in Old Norse and Medieval English. Bridget MacKenzie (née Gordon) their eldest daughter, would go on to lecture in Old Norse at the University of Glasgow.
The collection also includes some background information about the collection from the MacKenzie family.