This sub-series comprises files of materials such as correspondence, preliminary research, drafts, and contracts relating to published volumes edited by or written by Orel. These works include English Romantic Poets and the Enlightenment (1973), The Final Years of Thomas Hardy (1976), The Historical Novel from Scott to Sabatini (1995), A Kipling Chronology (1990), Popular Fiction in England, 1914-1918 (1992), The Scottish World: History and Culture of Scotland (1981), Victorian Literary Critics (1984), The Victorian Short Story (1986), and Thomas Hardy's Epic Drama: A Study of the Dynasts (2012), all authored by Orel.

There is also similar materials for Orel's work for the edited volumes British Poetry 1880-1920 (1969), The Brontës: Interviews and Recollections (1996), Charles Darwin: Interviews and Recollections (2000), Critical Essays on Rudyard Kipling (1989), Critical Essays on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1992), Critical Essays on Thomas Hardy's Poetry (1995), Gilbert and Sullivan: Interviews and Recollections (1995), Irish History and Culture: Aspects of a People's Heritage (1976), Kipling: Interviews and Recollections (1984), The Nineteenth-Century Writer and His Audience (1969), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Interviews and Recollections (1991), Thomas Hardy's Personal Writings (1966), and William Wordsworth: Interviews and Recollections (2005).

Materials are split between standard size boxes 18-25 and one oversize box.