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The papers consist of Atkinson's notes and sketches of orchids also letters, notes and articles received from other orchidologists.

Correspondence from William Henry Nicholls dated 1925 - 1948. Notes, letters, sketches.

Undated drawings and descriptions of Tasmanian orchids. Ink drawings with a typed description of plant and where specimen found, including: Caladenia Atkinsonia Rodway, Praesophyllum odoratum Rogers, Pterodtylus pedoglossa, Calochilus paludosus, Microtii atrata Lindl., etc. Also list of Tasmanian endemic plants and 1 dried plant from Mount Wellington.

Correspondence from James Hamlyn Willis of Melbourne Botanic Gardens dated 1920s, 1947 -1953, 1965.
Notes, list of Flinders Island flora Dec. 1924, letters (1947 -1953). Also letters to Miss Atkinson 1965 thanking her for biographical information on her father and grandfather.

Letters about plant collecting and specimens sent to Atkinson from Herman Montague Rucher Rupp dated 1925-1946

Journal articles and off-prints sent to Atkinson including:
• W.H. Nicholls, articles in Victorian Naturalist etc.1925-1940;
• H.M.R. Rupp, articles in Australian Naturalist and other journals 1926-1945;
• G. Weindorfer: "Two botanists in the Cradle Mountains Tasmania, Victorian Naturalist 1912;
• R.S. Rogers, VictNat. 1918, 1924, "South Australian Orchids" from J.M. Black Flora of South Australia 1922;
• N.A. Wakefield 1941;
• Edwin Cheel, Roy.Soc. NSW 1929;
• Mrs Edith Coleman, VictNat. 1928;
• D. Martin, J. Roy. Hist. Soc. 1950;
• Winifred M. Curtis, "A census of the orchids of Tasmania" P & P Roy Soc. Tas 1953;