This series consists of personal and professional correspondence documenting Cheng's career as a writer. Significant items include Cheng's correspondence with the historian and journalist Stanley Karnow; with Time Magazine’s Otto Friedrich, who wrote the introduction to the magazine’s excerpt of Cheng’s memoir; and with her editors at Grove Press, Harper Collins, and Penguin-Putnam. Other correspondents include Ruth Graham (Mrs. Billy Graham), and Robert Schuller, pastor of the Crystal Cathedral in Orange County, CA, which Cheng visited in 1988. She also received a considerable amount of fan mail and maintained correspondence with many friends.