Correspondence, diaries (1933-1937), speeches, financial papers, scrapbooks, appointment books, clippings, and other papers relating primarily to Bingham's service as ambassador to Great Britain (1933-1937). Subjects include the London Economic Conference, London Naval Conference, invasion of Abyssinia (Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935-1936), tariff and monetary questions, and Bingham's social activities. Other topics include the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Louisville Times, Kentucky politics, tobacco cooperatives, agriculture, and personal and family matters.

Correspondents include John Jacob Astor, Stanley Baldwin, Alben William Barkley, Bernard M. Baruch, John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham, Ulric Bell, Barry Bingham, Carrie Chapman Catt, Calvin Coolidge, Josephus Daniels, Anthony Eden, James Aloysius Farley, Credo Fitch Harris, Roland Hayes, Herbert Hoover, Edward Mandell House, Cordell Hull, Joseph P. Kennedy, Arthur Krock, Charles A. Lindbergh, David Lloyd George, Henry Robinson Luce, James Ramsay MacDonald, Lincoln MacVeagh, Jan Masaryk, Eugene Meyer, Margaret Mitchell, Henry Morgenthau, Adolph S. Ochs, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Daniel C. Roper, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., Henry Agard Wallace, Thomas John Watson, Henry Watterson, and Woodrow Wilson.