The collection contains English's copies of 4 of his poems including several of Ben Bolt. Many of his letters to autograph hunters deal with alterations made in Ben Bolt by various song writers. Other letters of interest include an 1840 invitation to Daniel Webster to attend a Philadelphia Harrison-Tyler rally, an 1845 request to George Mifflin Dallas that comments on the Texas question and requests an article on Russia, an 1895 statement to Richard A. Donnelly that William Atkinson Jones of Virginia objected to the Whittaker bill, and an undated letter to an editor whose paper had inadvertantly published a story under an incorrect name. The collection also contains several portraits of English and two clippings about him.