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The papers comprise: personal and professional correspondence (including copies of Hope's replies); notebooks; manuscript and typescript drafts of Hope's works and proofs of some that were published; manuscript and typescript articles, lectures, reviews and broadcasts; photographs; family and personal papers, including correspondence between members of the extended Hope family; and manuscript and typescript prose and poetry of other writers.