Sub-series consists of correspondence received by both A.Y. Jackson and Naomi Jackson Groves, removed from binders in which Groves had arranged the correspondence alphabetically by correspondent, evidently once she began to manage her uncle's affairs and her inventory of his art works. In general, the binders contained correspondence from other artists, from collectors, from friends, from family, and from museums, publishers and other organizations. Included are a few photocopies of A.Y. Jackson's own handwritten letters which Groves received from various sources and added to the binders. Also included were some personal photographs sent by various correspondents with their letters (see arrangement note).
Groves created individual binders for the following correspondents: Molly Bobak; Claude Bouchard; Clement Family; Florence Clement; Vivien Cowan and Sonia Cornwall; Isabel Day; Alberta Jacksons; Arthur Lismer; C.A.G. Mathews; Robert and Signe McMichael; Joyce and Munroe Putnam; and Walter Stewart. It should be noted that some letters from these correspondents can also be found in the general alphabetical binders. A binder of correspondence entitled Drawings - Commercial Dealings and Correspondence, containing both Groves and Jackson correspondence, has also been filed in this sub-series.
Among A.Y. Jackson's many correspondents in the general alphabetical binders are the following: Franklin Arbuckle, Artlenders, Arts and Letters Club, Robert Ayre, Patrick Baird, Henrietta Banting; Marius Barbeau, Maxwell Bates, Edward Bawden, J. Burgon Bickersteth, André Bieler; Fred Bridgen, L.W. Brockington, Reverend Bernard Brown, Ralph Burton; Charles Camsell, CBC, Canadian Peace Congress, Emily Carr, A.J. Casson, René Cera, Nan Cheney, Evelyn Cherry, Paraskeva Cark, Clarke, Irwin, Albert Cloutier, Nora Collyer, Charles Comfort, Rody Kenny Courtice, Carleton W. Clement; Blodwen Davies, Sidney Dawes, Norah DePencier, Hazel Devereux, Dominion Gallery, Josef Drenters, Galerie Dresdnere, Bobby Dyde, Edmund Dyonnet (re. A.Y. Jackson's letter of resignation from the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts); Lindsay Evans, Barker Fairley, O.J. Firestone, Lester B. Pearson (filed under F for flag: A.Y. Jackson's letter to Pearson regarding his own design for the new Canadian flag); Clarence Gagnon, Duncan Grant, Guggenheim Foundation; Josephine Hambleton, Lawren P. Harris, Lawren S. Harris (included is A.Y. Jackson's handwritten list of Lawren Harris paintings sent to the Picture Loan Society and to Laings 1942), Bess Housser, Elizabeth Harrison, Maurice Haycock, Prudence Heward, Randolph Hewton, Edwin Holgate, Yvonne McKague Housser (some letters are illustrated; note: there is also Housser correspondence in the D binder), E.J. Hughes; Harry and Mary Jackman; Betty Kennedy, Archibald Key, Walter Klinkhoff.
Other correspondents include: Lamartine and Beaulac Decoration, Montreal, H. Mortimer Lamb, Wyndham Lewis; Jock Macdonald, James MacCallum (including a letter from Jackson crediting MacCallum's importance in the development of Canadian art), Malcolm MacDonald, Thoreau MacDonald, Mary Mack (including a letter regarding Randolph Hewton), Spencer Macky; F.M. Rous (Rous and Mann), Vincent Massey, Pearl McCarthy, Graham McInnes, Isabel McLaughlin, J.S. McLean; Leo Mol, Arthur Nantel, National Gallery (including letter from H.O. McCurry after Jackson's resignation from the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts); David Blackwood (filed in N for Newfoundland), Lilias Torrance Newton, Jack Nichols, Will Ogilvie (including a self-portrait caricature); Kay and George Pepper, H.R. Percy, W.J. Phillips, Robert Pilot, Joe Plaskett; Albert Robinson, Hubert Rogers, H.U. Ross, René Pomerleau and Lorne Pierce (both latter filed in the Q-R binder); Anne Savage (letters to Naomi Jackson Groves), Ethel Seath, Doris Huestis Speirs; Audrey Taylor (including one illustrated), Fred Taylor, Edna Tedeschi; Tony Urquhart, William Watson, Dorothy Williams, York Wilson, Colin Graham at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.
The binders of correspondence included clippings and other printed material relating to the correspondents, some records relating to Groves' inventory of Jackson's artworks, and notes by both Groves and Jackson, which have been left filed among the correspondence where they were found. Included, for instance, in the A-Banting binder was Jackson's handwritten list of paintings sent to the first Group of Seven exhibition in the United States, 1921.