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.