The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, notebooks, books, circulars, conference papers, congratulatory messages, greeting cards, invitations and journal articles. They also include leaflets, memorandum, newscuttings, newspapers, pamphlets, photographs, receipts, reports, research material, telegrams, typescripts and papers relating to Ross' biography of John Curtin. The main correspondents are Frank Anstey, J. B. Chifley, L. F. Crisp, Elsie Curtin, John Curtin, Frank Farrell, Allan Fisher, Hartley Grattan, Jeff James, Jack Maddox, Tom Mann, Elsie McLeod, Bob Neale, Edgar Ross, Stina Ross, B. A. Santamaria, E. G. Theodore and Anne Turner. There are also papers of the journalist Robert Ross and politician Frank Anstey.
Teacher, writer, trade unionist, journalist, historian and State Secretary of the N.S.W. branch of the Australian Railways Union in 1935-43 and 1952-59.
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