Amy Marie Charles was a professor of English literature at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro from 1956 until 1984. In addition, she authored a biography of the seventeenth-century English poet George Herbert (Cornell University Press, 1977). This collection consists of documentary material collected by Dr. Charles for her study of Herbert's life.

Photographs and a postcard of George Herbert's birthplace and the Herbert family castles at Montgomery and Welshpool, Wales.

This collection is primarily copies of over 350 research articles on George Herbert and other metaphysical poets. There is also one folder of items related to reviews and promotion of the Herbert Bibliography written by John R. Roberts.