Family papers (1885-1993) comprised of correspondence, diaries, legal papers, notes, clippings, and scrapbooks; annual file (1935-1993) consisting of correspondence, memoranda, calendars and appointment books, reports, contracts, financial documents, notes, and printed matter; productions and projects file containing correspondence, scripts, memoranda, notes, telegrams, playbills and theater programs, contracts, schedules, financial records, set plans, and clippings documenting Cronyn and Tandy's stage, screen, and television performances together and separately and Cronyn's directorial and theatrical production activities; and miscellany (1914-1993) composed of financial, biographical, household, office, and personal files.

Includes scripts and production material relating to dramatic works by Edward Albee, Samuel Beckett, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Noel Coward, Jan De Hartog, Sean O'Casey, William Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, and Edmund Wilson or directed by José Ferrer, John Gielgud, Sir Tyrone Guthrie, Alfred Hitchcock, Elia Kazan, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Mike Nichols, and Alan Schneider. Correspondence with Cronyn (Cronin) and Tandy family members in England and Canada relates particularly to conditions during World War II. Other correspondents include Richard L. Coe, Cheryl Crawford, John Gielgud, Alfred Hitchcock, Elia Kazan, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Robert Whitehead, Greta Wright, and William H. Wright.