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The collection consists of materials of the University of Georgia's Board of Trustees, including meeting minutes, drafts of resolutions, annual reports, committee reports, auxiliary reports (such as catalogues, fiduciary documents, recommendations on degrees, and petitions, including a series of petitions pertaining to the issue of admission of women to the University), and correspondence.

The collection consists of papers of Clark Howell and the Howell family of Atlanta, Georgia from 1873-1946. The papers include mainly correspondence but also contain clippings, photographs, and speeches. The correspondence (1882-1946) consists of personal letters between Howell and Harriet G. Barrett (Howell) as well as business correspondence pertaining to Howell's editorials and management of the Atlanta Constitution, Georgia and U.S. politics, the 1905 Georgia gubernatorial race, the Democratic Party, and World War I. Correspondents include Alexander S. Clay and David B. Hill. The collection also includes correspondence to Clark Howell, Jr. pertaining to World War II and materials relating to the estate of Evan P. Howell, Clark Howell's father.

The collection consists of an extract from a called meeting of the Trustees of the Lucy Cobb Institute dated 5 November 1881. The extract deals with thanking Mr. George Seney for his contribution of ten thousand dollars for the erection of the chapel at the Lucy Cobb Institute.

The collection consists of papers of Mildred Lewis Rutherford from 1883-1930. The papers include correspondence, manuscripts, printed materials, photographs, and clippings documenting Rutherford's activities as principal of the Lucy Cobb Institute (1880-1920), historian general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) (1911-1916), the Children of the Confederacy, and with the Georgia Division of the UDC.

The collection consists of correspondence, writings, financial papers, printed material, and photographs. Family correspondence covers Hansell Baugh corresponding with various writers while he was collecting the letters of Frances Newman for his book. These writers and friends include Joseph Blumenthal, owner of Spiral Press; Elva de Pue Matthews; Henry A. Newman; Margaret Newman Patterson; and Walton Brooks McDaniel II.

The collection consists of scrapbooks, minutes, financial records (including tax and payroll materials), and other printed material related to the activities of the Clarke County Board of Education and schools within Clarke County.

The collection consists of hundreds of ledger books comprising the records of the Walton Cotton Mill Company, 1900-1975, including sent and received letters, invoices, payroll records, paid checks, general ledgers, construction blueprints, cotton records, sales journals, employee bond records, insurance records, and employee housing records. Also included are many more ledgers documenting the business transactions of the Bank of George Walton Felker, 1884-1934, including balance ledgers, deposit ledgers, collection registers, bank registers, check drafts, balance books, daybooks, loans and investments, and address books.

Series 4. Correspondence consists of correspondence of Telamon Cuyler from 1880-1951. The correspondence includes incoming letters and typed carbons of Cuyler's outgoing correspondence as well as contracts, receipts, and telegrams. The materials document Cuyler's activities and contain information on his real estate ventures; the cotton and textile industry, trade, and mills; Cuyler's law practice in Atlanta (Ga.) and New York (N.Y.); sales of ordnance and commodities to Europe, particularly Paris (France) during World War I and II; the flax trade and industry; Cuyler's book and autograph collections; Cuyler's involvement with the University of Georgia's War Memorial Board (1935-1939); and some sporadic (1905, 1942-1948) correspondence and reminiscences pertaining to his involvement in the Russo-Japanese Peace Conference (1905).