private papers

• documentsFormal written records
• lettersAlphabetic characters or mail
• correspondenceExchanged written communication
• diaryPersonal daily record
• journalRecord of daily events

confidential · personal · manuscripts · archives · estate · executor · sealed · intimate · memoirs · handwritten · files · records · bequeathed · posthumous · collection · portfolio · dossier · secret

• unpublished writingsdraft, manuscript, rough draft, first draft, notes
• manuscriptscodex, codices, folio, folios, papyri
• archivesnational archives, state archives, archivist, archive box, national archive
• bibliographybibliography, annotated bibliography, bibliographers, bibliographies, citations