The Coventry Patmore Collection contains manuscripts, correspondence, and visual materials connected to the poet's professional career and personal life. The collection contains manuscripts of some of Coventry Patmore's poetry and prose works including "Let Be", " Peace in Life and Art" and " Wind and Wave," as well as a few items by other authors. The collection also includes personal and professional correspondence between Coventry Patmore and various well-known members of 19th Century British and American literary culture. Letters to and from members of Coventry Patmore's family include those with his wife, Emily Augusta; his children, Emily, Tennyson and Francis; and his father, Peter. Finally, the collection contains visual materials, in the form of photographs, drawings, and reproductions of portraits.

The Coventry Patmore Collection is arranged into three series: Manuscripts, Correspondence, and Visual Materials.

Series I. Manuscripts: This series contains manuscripts from Coventry Patmore's poetry and prose career, as well as a few works by other authors. Included is a 1937 variorum edition of Patmore's The Angel in the House by Shane Leslie.

Series II. Correspondence spans Coventry Patmore's literary career. Correspondence with Coventry Patmore includes letters he wrote as well as those received from 19th century literary figures including Matthew Arnold, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorn, John Ruskin and Alfred Tennyson. The majority of the correspondence in this subseries relates to Coventry Patmore's poetry, prose and publication issues. Other correspondence is with members of his family including: his father, Peter Patmore; his sons, Tennyson and Francis Patmore; and his daughter, Emily Patmore.

Series III. Visual Materials: This series contains a drawing of Coventry Patmore's first wife, Emily Augusta Patmore, prepared in 1859 by John Brett. It also contains a photograph of Patmore's second wife, Marianne Caroline Patmore, and a photograph of Coventry Patmore. Both photographs are undated. Two framed reproductions of portraits of Coventry Patmore, one by John Singer Sargent and one by J. Lavey, complete the series.