Papers consist of correspondence, artwork, diaries, writings, and other items. Correspondence with family and friends in Charleston (S.C.), New York, North Carolina, and elsewhere concerns family matters, Wells' drawings, art pottery designs, woodware, and other matters. Correspondents include her mother Mrs. Edward L. Wells, brothers Julien Wells and Edward L. Wells, Jr., artist Elliott Daingerfield, and Citadel president C.P. Summerall. There is additional correspondence regarding pottery, book illustrations, and design work with D.F. Hayne & Son, Chesapeake Pottery (Maryland), the Nickell Magazine, Scribner's Magazine, the Century Co., and the magazine Sport in Dixie; correspondence (1901-1902) with the B.F. Johnson Publishing Co. (Va.) regarding the "Verses from the Cotton Boll," a booklet of verse by Henry Timrod illustrated by Wells and published for the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition; and letters of reference from Ellsworth Woodward, director of the Art Dept. at Newcomb College (New Orleans, La.). Artwork includes studies and finished pictures of landscapes, animals, flowers, people, and other subjects executed in watercolor, oils, ink wash, pencil, pastels, and charcoal, as well as sketches and finished designs for pottery, ceramics, book covers, and book illustrations. Included is an illustrated book by Wells, "Funny Facts," which contains humorous verses about animals. Writings include a poem of tribute to Wells; articles or lectures on commercial pottery; poems by Wells, Harriet Joor, and others; a short story; and a fragment of a play. Four diaries cover the time period of February 1898 to November 1899. Other items include the Wells' birth certificate, passport, and will; newspaper clippings; photographs and negatives of pottery by Wells; printed material, including copies of the newspaper "The Harlequin" and catalogs of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1905); and notes on designs.
