Manuscripts, typescripts, printed items, and reprints from McCutcheon's lifetime and after his death in 1949. This series includes articles, essays, speeches, notes, small sketches, revisions, and introductions to other writers’ works. Also included are a number of articles from the Chicago Record and the Tribune newspapers, Cosmopolitan, Hearst’s International, and Liberty magazines, which contain illustrations or cartoons by McCutcheon.

The “Africa” folder consists of manuscripts relating to the newspaper series “With McCutcheon in Africa” and the subsequent book “In Africa”. "Diaries and Notebooks" contain detailed writings about McCutcheon’s travels in Central Asia, the Philippines, Mexico, and elsewhere, and are occasionally accompanied by small sketches. Some diaries and notebooks contain expense logs; other expense books can be found in the Legal/Financial Files.

The drafts of “Drawn from Memory,” occasionally called “Opus” by McCutcheon, consist of some material appearing elsewhere in this series. These drafts have been kept in the order in which they were found, and include notes and final revisions by Evelyn McCutcheon. The oversize box entitled “Stories of Filipino Warfare” contains original articles as published in the Chicago Record from 1898-1900. A printed compilation of some of these articles is catalogued separately under call number Case Y 244.159.

“Unidentified” materials lack titles and publication information, while “Untitled” items contain publication information but lack titles. Both types of materials are identified by the first line of the work.

See also Series 13 (Scrapbooks), for scattered short printed works. See boxes 46-49 for Oversize Works - Writings.