Also included is a letter sent to Boyle from prominent German writer Walter Mehring.

Also included are a copy of a letter to the US Director of Prisons in which the wife of convicted Rosenburg accomplice Norton Sobell petitioned for conjugal visits, a related newspaper clipping reporting that her request had been denied, and clippings promoting Boyle's latest novel Generation Without Farewell .

Letters include material relating to Einsele's requests for permission to translate pieces from The Nation and Liberation magazines into German for her own leftist magazine. Pages from Liberation (January 1962) are included as well.

Also included are a draft of a piece by Boyle titled "Frankfurt Revisited" and a letter to Boyle from one of her fans, Lotty Noelle, a victim of the Nazi regime seeking help from Boyle's contacts. There is also a clipping relating to Boyle's trip to Cambodia (see MSS 262 for more materials relating to this mission).

Notable topics in these letters are Boyle's planned project for writing a history of German women (which she never finished, see MSS 131 for a draft) and Boyle's inquiring about Amnesty International (she would later found the San Francisco chapter).

Some of these letters mention the trip to Ireland Boyle took during this time (see MSS 287 for some of the work produced relating to this trip).

Also included is a letter written by Einsele to a mutual friend of Einsele and Boyle.

Politics and activism are especially prevalent themes in these letters, in spite of Boyle's acknowledgment of her declining health.

Several of these letters were mediated through others, such as the staff at Boyle's retirement community or her son Ian. Also included are a copy of a defensive letter from Boyle to writer Dorothy Bryant regarding Bryant's "personal view" of Boyle in the Twentieth Century Literature issue devoted to Boyle's life and a letter to Einsele from Temple University professor Joan Mellen regarding information for her book about Boyle ( Kay Boyle: Author of Herself , 1994).