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The collection consists of one letter: dated Athens, July 8, 1872, to "Mrs. Cynthia Hall," regarding prospects of a visit, family, and church news. The collection also includes a photocopy of the John Newton family tree and an explanatory letter dated 1973.

The collection consists of one scrapbook belonging to Elsie Marshall Floyd that contains newspaper scraps, letters, and cartoon pictures related to friends and boys.

The collection consists of miscellaneous memorabilia: a lorgnette; two fans; pocket knife; Telamon Cuyler's handkerchief from the Berlin Trade Exhibition of 1896; miniature calendar (1921); Piso's Pocket Book Almanac, the world's smallest almanacs (1910, 1917); and piece of embroidery (given to Cora Urquhardt Potter when she was on tour in India). Also included in the collection are war ration books presented to William Tate, Susan Barrow Tate, Benjamin Barrow Tate, and William Jefferson Tate of Athens, Georgia (1942-1943); and Russell A. Price, Helen B. Price, Kenneth E. Price, and Harold L. Price of Frostburg, Maryland (1942-1943).

The collection consists of a land grant dated July 1, 1843, for 40 acres of land in Cherokee County, Georgia, granted to Emery Hughes of Walton County, Georgia, and a survey of the plat, dated June 1832. Also included is Emery Hughes bond to Jesse Goolsby, dated February 23, 1839, and an indenture made April 1854 for land in Lumpkin County, Georgia.

The small collection consists mainly of correspondence between Emily Timrod Goodwin and Paul Hamilton Haynes and his family from 1867-1894. Also included is a photograph of Henry Timrod, undated; a scrapbook containing clippings about Henry Timrod and clippings of Timrod's poetry, 1867-1929; and a publication of Timrod's poetry with two handwritten poems on the final two pages, undated.

The collection consists of photographs and reproductions of artwork by Emily Winthrop Miles, including photographs of Miles Wildlife Sanctuary. Also included are photographs and biographical information of Miles.

The collection consists of two letters: dated Cuthbert, April 11, 1861, "Dearest Uncle John," signed "Emma," regarding the Beall family, and news of Brother Thomas and his regiment; dated Athens, Georgia, January 5, 1864, "My dear sir" (John Atkins), signed "William Avery."

One letter from Emma Ethridge to her husband telling of family news, his upcoming promotion, the need for better shoes, asking to hire a nurse, and inquiring about the situation in Richmond.

The collection consists of galley proofs of an earlier work by Emma Hamilton Bulloch, author of The Marshes of Georgia and Other Poems (Washington, [D.C.] : W. F. Roberts Company, 1913), titled (in ink) on the first page simply "Poems." One poem, "The Cathedral Woods," does appear in both works -- at the beginning of "Poems" and at the conclusion of The Marshes of Georgia. "Poems" contains numerous manuscript corrections and notations, both printer's marks and textual changes. In the upper right corner of page one of the galley is the stamp of Seaman's Advertising Agency. Seaman's Printing House in Durham, North Carolina, was actively involved in job book work during the immediate pre-World War I period and very possibly was handling the publication of "Poems" for Emma Hamilton Bulloch.