The series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, dating predominantly from the period 1981-1995. The material found in this series documents the workings of the Canadian Authors Association and includes information on financial matters, grant applications sent to various agencies including the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council, awards programs, convention and conference planning, meetings at both the national and branch levels, membership information and applications, CAA periodical subscriptions and publishing projects. Included in the files dating from 1921 to 1936 is correspondence to and from John Murray Gibbon (CAA President), H. S. Eayrs (Secretary-General), and B.K. Sandwell. These early files provide useful information on membership (applications and fee payment), CAA constitutional issues (such as the inclusion of visual artists within the membership), the planning of Book Week 1921, a petition from CAA National Secretary Watson Kirkconnell regarding the support for the Ladner Bill of 1926 (a series of proposed amendments to the Copyright Act of 1921) and programmes for the annual conventions of 1930 (Montreal) and 1931 (Toronto). Correspondents represented in subsequent files mainly include past presidents and executive officers such as H. Gordon Green, Don W. Thomson, Carol Wilson, Dr. Agnes Nyland, H.C. Little, Eric Crowther, Lyn Harrington and Ginni (Virginia) Sumodi. Files are arranged in chronological order. The additional file title information which follows the supplied title "correspondence", when not placed in square brackets, represents an original file title.
The series includes a separate run of correspondence, 1921-1946, between various secretaries of the Canadian Authors Association and its members arranged in member files sorted alphabetically, including files on L.J. Burpee, James Cappon, Bliss Carman, Emily Carr, J.W. Dafoe, W.H. Drummond, Hugh Eayrs, John W. Garvin, Reverend C.W. Gordon, Stephen Leacock, J.F.B. Livesay, L.M. Montgomery, Frederick Niven, Sir Charles G.D. Roberts, Lord Tweedsmuir, and others (see vols. 1-2). These files bear numbers assigned by the CAA and appear to have been part of a run of files on deceased members. Containers 1, 2 and 44 to 51 contain photographs.