The collection contains the diaries/journals of Hinks, with typed transcriptions, as well as drafts of John Goldsmith's edited version of them that was published in 1984 as The Gymnasium of the Mind: The Journals of Roger Hinks, 1933-1963. In addition, there are notes for a lecture entitled "Sacred and Profane Love," dealing with Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, and their wives; notes and related correspondence about "The Antique" and classical Greek art for a Penquin series; over forty small notebooks (1932-1963), some containing obvious source material for the journals; correspondence of Hinks, with his father, Arthur R., and brother, David A. G., with friends Bernard Berenson, Thure Bonde, Ian McCallum, Patrick Thursfield, and others; correspondence of Francis Wormald, a professor of paleography and Hinks's friend and executor of his estate (with McCallum); a few photographs of Hinks; his watch and a set of keys; and various estate-related documents, such as Hinks's will and an inventory of his household. Thursfield's detailed examination of the manuscript material left behind by Hinks at his death, entitled "The Journals and Diaries of Roger Hinks" (9 pp.) and dated July 1964, is included.