Letters from readers commenting on or giving information for Peter McLauchlan's The Press series of illustrated articles, Canterbury sketchbook. Included with the letters are photographs and other papers.

Includes a letter from the Christchurch artist William Sutton, 10 Nov. 1990, and a letter and signed copy of Fragments, and other poems, by Edna Neville (Aunt Haysl).

Peter McLauchlan's Canterbury sketchbook featured cartoon-like sketches of local interest (Christchurch, Canterbury and West Coast)with historical notes. It ceased about 1998.