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The collection consists of records (photocopies) and correspondence (photocopies) regarding genealogy of the William Henry family, 1740-1977.

The collection consists of one scrapbook containing obituaries and newspaper clippings regarding the deaths and funerals of Henry Grady and Jefferson Davis (circa 1889).

A notebook of Captain Henry H. Carlton from 1860-circa 1880s. The notebook begins in 1860 as L. C. Cooper's notebook while a student at Franklin College (University of Georgia, Athens) and contains several literary pieces copied by Cooper. In 1861, Captain H. H. Carlton used the book to record the list of soldiers who served in the Troup Artillery during the Civil War. After the war someone, probably Edwin D. Newton, Secretary of the Survivors Association of Confederate Veterans of Northeast Georgia, added place of residence, death dates, and other data to the list. The notebook contains a mixture of various notes and includes material on Carlton's Company.

The collection consists of three ledgers kept by Henry Hicks from 1852-1873. Hick's first ledger contains lecture notes from courses taken at the Medical College of Georgia, from lectures given by Drs. Louis A. Dugas, Paul F. Eve, and Robert S. Newton. The remainder of the ledger, and the remaining two ledgers, contains patient accounts, listing name of patient, services provided, charges and medicine dispensed. Ledgers also list the mileage Hicks charged as he traveled to visit his patients. Loose papers include a Freedmen list, an IOU, and a list of accounts. These accounts appear to be from an estate sale on December 28, 1843 and list household goods, livestock and names of people who were enslaved.

The collection consists of one acting prompt-book, heavily annotated and corrected by Henry Irving for his leading role as Napoleon in the play Madame Sans-Gene. The book is inscribed "Henry Irving/Lyceum Theatre, 12 February '97."

The collection consists of one letter: dated February, to "General D.B. Mitchell, Agent for Indian Affairs," signed "Henry Jackson," regarding Mr. Warren in Philadelphia, two treatises of agriculture, and Jackson's travel to Athens.

The collection consists of papers of Henry Jackson dating 1800-1840. Included are minutes of the Board of Visitors of University of Georgia (1832), documents and lists concerning apparatus Jackson purchased for the University of Georgia when he was in France, and correspondence to Jackson from Francois Andre Michaux, Augustin S. Clayton, John R. Golding, Iverson L. Harris, Charles F. McCay, H. N. Neisler, and G. W. LaFayette.

The collection consists of one scrapbook containing newspaper clippings kept by Henry J. Osborne. Clippings concern various happenings in Augusta, Georgia; the siege and fall of Vicksburg; poems; and obituaries.

The collection consists of one letter from Henry L. Benning, to his wife, dated February 1, 1858.

The collection consists of three newspaper clippings and two letters from H. L. Mencken to Ned Lee. Two newspaper clippings (undated) concern Mencken's illness and retirement. Letters (dated 1933) poke fun at the Mississippi Bible Belt, and one of the newspaper clippings is an editorial from The Webster Progress, Eupora, Mississippi, regarding Henry L. Mencken, and contains the letter Mencken wrote to Lee.