Includes Hodgkin's account of her rheumatoid arthritis, from which she suffered from the late 1930s.

Comprises: correspondence with the National Portrait Gallery, re photograph for the National Photographic Record, 1965-1969 correspondence with the National Portrait Gallery, Maggi Hambling and others re portrait of Hodgkin by Hambling, 1984-1988 letter from Henry Moore and correspondence re Moore's drawings of Hodgkin's hands for the Royal Society, 1978, 1989 ...

Miscellaneous shorter correspondence re portraits and photographs.

Requests for Hodgkin's advice, opinions on a variety of topics. From 1989 Hodgkin's replies are typed on the back of the letters.

Correspondence principally with and re Hodgkin's school, the Sir John Leman School, Beccles, 1951-1993. Includes a little correspondence re Crowfoot County Primary School, opened by Hodgkin's father in 1952, and with the Borough of Beccles, 1965-1973.