The manuscript collection is composed of letters and related material that was sent by Dr. Lenore Sportsman Miller to her husband, Dr. John K. Miller of New York, while she was working as a nurse at Butterworth Hospital and Johns Hopkins Hospital, covering 1936-1947. The collection is broken down into three series: BUTTERWORTH HOSPITAL, JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL, and OTHER SENDERS.

Lenore does not always list the date in which she’s writing or compiling the papers, so the series is organized by the dates post-stamped on the envelopes rather than by date of the individual documents. Sometimes an envelope contains documents with dates that do not exactly correspond to the post-stamp, but since the documents are arranged according to the date on the envelope inside which the documents came to us, these papers can be found with the other materials from the envelope. For example, letters dated January 1937 were enclosed in an envelope post-stamped and with letters from April 1937. Therefore, the letters are roughly organized within folders in a chronological manner, but not with absolute certainty.

Supplementary documents were kept with the envelopes inside which they were found in this series. These documents include several handwritten quotations and lyrics, copies of published poems, a bookmark, an address, a handwritten contract signed by someone to whom Lenore gave a $50.00 loan, a booklet entitled “How to Use the Morning Quiet Time” by Robert P. Wilder, Lenore’s notes on psychological maladies, a list of books that she suggested for Dr. Miller, letters from family, and professional correspondence.