The Erna Reich papers are predominantly composed of her correspondence with her boyfriend, Emil Kuehne, from 1920-1925. These letters are personal in subject and frequent in number, with the occasional telegram interspersed among them when Emil was waiting for a reply impatiently. The letters often mention meeting points and other such locations throughout Berlin, giving them an interesting historical relevance in terms of the cityscape of Berlin in the 1920s. There is a small amount of other correspondence with assorted people as well as some of Erna's personal notes and effects from both early on and the later years in Los Angeles. The other three items (the Perpetual Calendar, the issue of Atlantis magazine, and the screenplay) were found with the Erna Reich materials, but it is unclear how or why they may be related to her.