Four original typed letters signed "Vicky" to her publisher Malcolm Johnson (1902-1958) and his wife Mathilde Whitridge Johnson (1910–1976), along with one envelope. Mr. Johnson was the president of the American Book Publishers Council, executive vice-president of the D. Van Nostrand Publishing Company, and a managing editor of Atlantic Monthly and Doubleday & Co. Although Mr. Johnson was Baum's publisher, the letters here are of a personal nature, addressed to "Tillie" (for Mathilde) and Malcolm. They discuss birthday congratulations, health matters, children, and her struggles writing.

Baum writes:

I was especially proud that [Malcolm Johnson] seemed to approve of my English. It's the one thing I'm a bit proud of, or rather, it's the only way in which I can really show how hard I tried to make myself into an American. [...]

[I] want to write honest enough even to please Hemingway; again, after wallowing in cruelty, exploitation and injustice for 200 years[...]

Baum also writes about her health and her upcoming 1943 book The Weeping Wood, a history of the rubber industry:

I want to report to you that the rubber book is more or less finished. I am only struggling with the rewriting of the last two chapters which seem a bit flat[...] Somehow, I feel I got a bit too Pollyanna in the end and I want to remedy that, but don't know exactly how. [...]

I'm not sick and neither am I well. Doctor claims it's a very busy little epidemic... and he even wrote to Washington about it, because he has a notion that it's a little germ friend Hitler might have planted here; sounds beautifully fantastic, doesn't it?