The papers comprise letters and correspondence written to family and friends, family papers relating to her son Kim and husband Oliver (who died while working as a missionary in India), diaries and notebooks, speeches, scripts for ABC radio morning devotional broadcasts, autobiographical writings, financial papers, photographs, slides, and cassette tapes. The papers relate to McCutcheon's work with the Australian Student Christian Movement, Frensham School (Mittagong, NSW), and International House at the University of Sydney. The collection includes a substantial sequence of letters written to her family while accompanying her husband in India in 1934-36.