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The collection consists of two diaries kept by Rebecca Foy consisting of handwritten accounts of marriages, births, deaths, illnesses, and remedies for illnesses and nosebleeds. The earliest birth recorded is "Anne Dasher, born Sept. 21, 1778." The final entry ("My ducks began to lay"), dated 1864. The collection also includes Book I – Vol. I, dated 1936, titled Fay Family of Effingham County, Georgia. Assorted family papers include: Biography of Edward Edwin Foy (1842-1907), written by Eloise Eugenia Foy Ward; one letter dated Jan. 31, 1933, addressed to Mrs. Ella Cordona, regarding a letter she had written attempting to locate George Foy, who had enslaved Cordona; and miscellaneous handwritten accounts of births and deaths of Foy family descendants.

The collection consists of papers of John B. Bell and the Bell and Bolling families of Stephens, Oglethorpe County, Georgia from 1864-1963. The papers include correspondence, bills, receipts, legal papers, bank statements and checks, printed material, and letters of dismission from various Baptist churches in Georgia. The correspondence is mainly personal between family members and friends but also includes letters pertaining to John B. Bell's law practice and business interests (1891-1920), the Georgia Baptist Convention, farming and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (1926-1945), and letters between Florence B. Hawkins and her son Walter H. Bolling during his army service in England during World War II. Correspondents include Nolda Bell, Edward H. Bell, Elizabeth C. Bell, Mollie S. Bell, and Joseph S. Bolling.

The collection consists of photographs, undated, portraying images of mostly unidentified military hospitals during World War I. One photograph with an identified hospital shows a group of officers and nurses in front of Officers Ward U.S. Army General Hospital No. 1. Photographs depict various groups of doctors, nurses, and wounded soldiers; and dining halls, dining staff, and a hospital baseball team. A few photographs are of nurses, probably at the nurses' rest home, and German soldiers in the field.

The collection consists of typescripts, scripts, screenplays, and playbills for plays and operas written by Tennessee Williams.

Notable items in the collection include letters to Lazaro Artau, as well as four books related to his time as a ship captain.

The collection consists of one typescript titled A Study of the Organization and Administration of Education, by Charles H. Gilmore, J. A. Baer, and C. O. Houle. The typecript is 207 pages, and is a study focusing on "education as only one function of State government."

The collection consists of letters related to her admission process, copies of news clippings related to her time at UGA, biographical materials and other items. Of particular interest is a 1962 letter of congratulations from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., praising her efforts.

The collection consists of typescripts of stories written by Erskine Caldwell, photographs of Caldwell, and publicity notices and newspaper clippings.

The collection consists of a journal kept by A. T. Havens, 1842-1843. Entries describe scenery along the St. John's River and Jacksonville, Florida; and Savannah, Macon, and Albany, Georgia. Havens writes about Picolata military post, plantations, his religious views, slaves, and railroads. Also mentioned are encounters with General Charles Floyd, Walter T. Colquitt, Bishop Stephen Elliott, and E. A. Nesbit.