File contains letters to Ellen Ballon from William Somerset Maugham concerning gifts, performances, visits, friends, and books. Some of the letters are also addressed to Sally "Tammie" Ryan and Ralph Gustafson.
File contains three letters from Frank Cyril James to Ellen Ballon concerning her performances and the conferral of an honorary degree by McGill to her.
File contains letters concerning Ellen Ballon's performance of music by Heitor Villa-Lobos and the receipt of flowers. File also contains a letter to Ballon from Mary Goldie, Private Secretary to Princess Alice, concerning a letter from the latter and Lord Athlone to Dr. James (presumably Frank Cyril James) at the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the McGill Conservatorium of Music.
File contains a printed letter from the White House sent in response to an invitation from Ellen Ballon for Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt to attend an event in New York on November 28, 1944.