This series comprises June Callwood's personal and professional correspondence, covering a wide range of subjects, from her family to her work in journalism and social activism and advocacy. Her friends, writers, editors, fans, and others applaud or criticize her articles and books, describe the personal impact of her writing, offer commissions for writing jobs, recruit her for speaking engagements, bestow upon her honours and awards, and solicit her support for their causes. The files are organized in loose chronological fashion with a few nominal files by correspondent. Some highlights will give a general feel for the series. For example, her files from 1952 to 1965 largely hold reader response to her articles in "Maclean's" (in particular her series on emotions), "Star Weekly", "Chatelaine", and other periodicals, queries from editors about her interest in writing projects, and reaction to her radio and television work. Some significant correspondents from this era included Mavor Moore, Ralph Allen, Leslie McFarlane, Peter Wyden, Pierre Berton, Gordon Sinclair, Anna Cameron, Arthur Hailey, and Rabbi Abraham Feinberg. There are letters from Farley Mowat arising from her research for an article on Inuit patients in Mountain Sanitorium, and personal letters and poetry from Mowat.
The correspondence file for 1964 to 1985 largely holds letters in response to her writing, but also includes letters of support following her arrest and jailing in 1968, and congratulations on her receipt of the Order of Canada in 1978. Robert Stanfield's surprising attempt to recruit her as a candidate for the Progressive Conservative party in the 1972 election is notable (file 85-19). Some of her correspondents in these years included Peter C. Newman, Lester B. Pearson, Pierre Berton, Dalton Camp, Betty Kennedy, Doris Anderson, Arthur Hailey, Claire and Farley Mowat, Anna Cameron, Barbara Walters, True Davidson, Ian Adams, Peter Worthington, Flora MacDonald, Conn Smythe, Pauline McGibbon, John B. Aird, Janet Lunn, Rosie Abella, Clayton Ruby, Jane Rule, Michele Landsberg, Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, Henry Morgentaler, Sylvia Fraser, and Celia Franca. There is a nominal file of correspondence from architectural historian Eric Arthur but also letters from him in the chronological files. June Callwood's correspondence files from the 1980s to 2000s primarily hold response to her books and articles, speeches, honours and awards, allegations of racism at Nellie's and International PEN, and her myriad work with other social organizations. For example, on the opening of Casey House in 1988 there is a letter of praise and thanks from Timothy Findley. Other correspondents for these years included Norman Webster, Elinor Caplan, Harry Arthurs, Peter Bronfman, A. R. Megarry, John Sopinka, Rabbi Arthur Bielfeld, Jesse Frayne, Dr. Lois Wison 1989, Alison Gordon, Margaret Gibson, Isabel Bassett, Anna Cameron, Hilary Weston, and Betty Kennedy.
