
The collection includes thousands of documents, personal and professional correspondence, legal and real estate records, writings, sound discs, clippings, publicity materials, fan mail, diaries, hundreds of print photos from her personal life, writing career, and professional life, including publicity photographs for the 1946 feature film of The Egg and I starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray. Her papers, photographs, and American and foreign editions of her books are open to researchers in Special Collections.


Piggle-Wiggle series" of children’s books, she also published other popular books. Known for her books "The Egg and I" and the "Mrs. Betty MacDonald, bestselling mid-century author, specialized in writing humorous personal tales.
