The Ben Robertson Papers include biographical information prepared by Charles H. Busha, M. D. Klaas, and others, as well as a wide assortment of Robertson's personal papers. A clippings file contains newspaper and magazine articles written by Ben Robertson during his tenure with the Charleston News and Courier, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, the Adelaide News, the New York Herald Tribune, the Chicago Sun, PM, the Anderson Independent, and othe national and local publications. Included among the clippings are articles about Robertson and reviews of Traveler's Rest, I Saw England, and Red Hills and Cotton. A chronological correspondence file includes Robertson's carbon copies of his own letters in addition to correspondence from personal friends, journalists, and authors. Internal evidence reflects relationships with a diverse group of people such as Edward R. Murrow, Lady Astor, Edgar Snow, Tom Waring, Governor of South Carolina Burnet R. Maybank, staff at foreign embassies, and Roger Peace. Single items exist from Thomas Wolfe, George Washington Carver, and Margaret Mitchell. A number of original and photocopied notebooks contain Robertson's handwritten and typed journal entries, as well as pasted-in letters and clippings. These personal records date from 1923 to one month before his death in 1943.