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The collection consists of letters written to Joseph Emerson Brown in 1885 while he was a senator in Washington, D. C. Most of the correspondents are asking Brown for a recommendation for a job for themselves or for others. Jobs mentioned include U. S. Marshal, Surveyor of Customs, Deputy Revenue Collector, and Postmaster. Correspondents include Augustus R. Wright, Henry H. Tucker, and James Buchanan Eads.

The collection consists of records relating to the United Confederate Veterans from 1891-1906 and contains mostly correspondence among the officers of the organization concerning procedures, policies, reunions, and officers. Also included are letters of John B. Gordon, Stephen D. Lee (General commanding), William F. Mickle (Adjutant General and Chief of Staff), Thomas H. Edgar (Adjutant to Mickle), M.R. Turner, Olive Steele, George W. Gordon, H.W. Graber, A.W. Hutton, and Phillip H. Fall.

This collection contains two letters regarding the use of convicts for labor. One letter describes a prisoner, Floyd Clements, working out his sentence in the household for J.L. Roberston. The other letter is a petition from Robert E. Park to the Georgia State Legislature making the case for using convicts to dig canals to drain the swamps of Southern Georgia in order to create farm land.

This collection consists of letters written by a young soldier to his wife that concerns life during the Spanish-American War. The letters appear to come from camps in Georgia or Tennessee, and are not from the battlefront.

The collection consists of seven letters regarding the prospects of mining mica in Georgia from 1900. Correspondents include C. A. Dozier, Gainesville, Georgia; C. Y. Rogers, Blairsville, Georgia; and W. K. Russell, Shades, Georgia.

The collection consists of three letters from Ulrich Bonnell Phillips to Dr. Robert Preston Brooks (University of Georgia faculty). In his first letter, dated March, 25, 1907, Phillips suggests sources of American history, England during the colonial period, and "the colonies of South Carolina, Georgia, Barbados and Jamaica as a group." Letters dated October 5, 1907 and February 11, 1908 are more personal in nature. Phillips responds to questions Brooks asked in previous letters, and suggests sources of Georgia history, their locations and use.

The collection consists of two letters dated November 18, 1907, directed to George Foster Peabody from Edward E. Hale and Frank Boas regarding study of the Cherokee Indian language. A third letter dated November 19, 1907 is from Mr. Peabody's secretary to Chancellor David C. Barrow, University of Georgia, enclosing the two former letters. A photocopy of Hale's biography from an unknown source is included.

The collection consists of letters written by "Mog" to Ruth Park or "Rufus" in Atlanta, Georgia. "Mog" was at Camp Joseph E. Johnston in Jacksonville, Florida. The letters begin in September 1918 and continue after the war when "Mog" went to work in Detroit. Many of the letters are undated, and the full name of "Mog" is never given.

The collection consists of four letters pertaining to Rebecca Latimer Felton and Mr. Samuel T. Garber of Columbus, Ohio. Two letters Felton wrote to Garber in 1923, one letter Garber wrote to Felton in 1929, and one letter is to Garber from the Society of the Army of the Cumberland in 1925.

The collection consists of two letters: dated April 4, 1924, to "Mr. Duncan Burnet, University of Georgia Library," signed "Wilbur M. Stone," regarding books by Beatrice Bernheim, Mrs. W.E.B. Snow, and Burnet's interest in lame duck authors; dated May 11, 1924, "My dear Mr. Burnett," signed "Wilbur M. Stone," regarding lame duck books and their authors.