The series provides an insight into Ann Charney's personal and professional lives. The series contains materials documenting Ann Charney’s personal life, as well as that of the people around her, and contains correspondence sent to her by various family members and friends, including Melvin Charney and fellow artists like Morty Schiff, Joyce Ravid, Alison Strayer, Susan Kealey, Moyra Davey, Joan Micklin Silver, Geraldine Sherman, Elizabeth Spencer, Lionel Tiger, Christina McCall, George Szanto, and others. The series also illustrates Ann Charney’s professional life, by the means of correspondence with various literary agents, publishers and editors, the UNEQ (Union des écrivaines et écrivains Québécois), as well as granting agencies.
The series contains letters, mostly handwritten, postcards, photographs, and newspaper clippings.