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A bound typescript of The Indian difficulties of Georgia, an address delivered by Charles Spalding before the Georgia Historical Society in Savannah, Georgia, on March 30, 1844. Spalding defends Georgia in relation to its treatment of the Creek Indians. The present copy is of an unknown original, although two accompanying documents shed light on the origins.

The collection consists of the papers of the Branch family of Savannah, Georgia from 1830-1961. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence between Charlotte Sawyer Branch and her sons John L., Sanford W., and Hamilton McDevil Branch, who served mainly in the 8th Georgia Infantry Regiment during the Civil War.

The collection consists of papers of Eugene Edmund Murphey from 1894-1952. Contains mainly correspondence (1933-1939) relating to his hobby as an ornithologist; speeches and writings relating to a variety of subjects including public health issues; and lectures on medicine. Also includes memorials, materials (1936-1940) on the Augusta Museum, photographs, and printed material.

This collection includes articles, manuscripts, research notes, reviews, and publicity and promotional information documenting the writings and career of Kathy Hogan Trocheck, including the works she completed using the pseudonym Mary Kay Andrews.

The collection consists primarily of screenplays, scripts, and unfinished work written by Calder Willingham. The most well-documented work in the collection is Rambling Rose, for which there are several drafts of screenplays, documents, and clippings. Screenplays for Little Big Man are also included, as well as scripts and treatments for projects that apparently never materialized. The collection also includes essays Willingham wrote on a number of topics, such as writing, philosophy, religion, and his upbringing. There is a substantial amount of correspondence including letters between Willingham and fellow authors Herman Wouk and James T. Farrell. Correspondence begun while Willingham was in college at the University of Virginia includes two love interests as well as David T. Bazelon, who would become a noted social critic. Some interviews and reviews of his work also form part of the collection.

This collection contains artifacts used by Edward Dowd during his time serving as a flight radio operator including notebooks, checklists, and identification cards, as well as one returned letter to a soldier in Italy, souvenir arrowheads, shaving kit, and lighter.

This collection contains Lindsay Allen Connally's address book; Evelyn (Lyn) Connally's autograph book which includes the autographs of Joe DiMaggio, Bing Crosby, Robert Frost, Dwight Eisenhower, and others; correspondence; newspaper clippings, photographs from the 51st reunion of the University of Georgia's class of 1927; A. A. Sells' and W. L. Connally's United Daughters of the Confederacy Southern Cross of Honor medals; printed material; and information on the Connally and MacKenzie families.

The collection consists of writings, sermons, sermon notes, family photographs, photographic negatives and glass lantern slides of Europe and the Holy Lands, a scrapbook of clippings, photographs, and programs pertaining to Williams, a book of accounts Williams kept while a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, and correspondence. The correspondence pertains to Williams' activities while at Oxford, his rectorship at St. Stephens Church (Milledgeville, Ga.), and his teaching career at the University of the South (Sewanee, Tenn.). Correspondents include University of Georgia Chancellor D.C. Barrow, the Bishop of Atlanta Cleland Kinloch Nelson, and Williams' father, Howard J. Williams. The collection also contains correspondence to Eleanor (Nellie) Barrow Williams from friends and family, letters of condolence upon her father's death, and memorials to Henry Lee Jewett Williams.