Within the Mary-Louise Hooper papers are original letters of Albert Luthuli and his wife, Nokukhanya, and eldest daughter Albertina Luthuli, and other prominent South Africans such as Moses Kotane, Oliver Tambo, M.B. Yengwa, Alfred Hutchison, Eskia (Ezekial) Mphahlele, G.M. and M.P. Naicker, Stephen Dlamini, Alan Paton, as well as letters from the Mandela and Tambo law firm, Trevor Huddleston, Joshua Nkomo of Zimbabwe, and Tom Mboya of Kenya. There is also correspondence with San Francisco organisations such as the International Longshoremen Workers Union, active in anti apartheid campaigns in that city. Also included are files on tours of the U.S. by prominent South Africans such as Robert Resha and Dennis Brutus. numerous publications of African liberation and anti-apartheid movements (many annotated by Hooper), tapes (including the Nobel Prize speech of Albert Luthuli and a talk on the Freedom Charter) and photos (including those of Luthuli, and of Hooper underground with the FLN of Algeria, and of various ANC leaders in KwaZulu-Natal, and later in exile in Tanzania or Zambia).