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The collection consists of one letter regarding a trip from Athens, Georgia through Richmond, Virginia and then on to Washington, D.C., New York City and Cambridge, Massachusetts. The collection also includes photocopies of biographical information regarding Wipple and William Thomas Martin.

The collection consists of papers of Lucius J. Gartrell from 1848-1884: Gartrell's license to practice law (1848); commission to the U.S. House of Representatives (1859); correspondences regarding Gartrell's arrest signed by members of the 7th Georgia Infantry Regiment who support his reinstatement; a letter signed "W. L. Hubbard" regarding the election of officers in the 7th Regiment; a letter accepting Gartrell's resignation.

The collection consists of two photographs, one of the Lucy Cobb Institute Building and one of the Seney-Stovall Chapel.

The collection consists of photographs of the Lucy Cobb Institute prior to and during its restoration. The main portion of the project took place between 1984 and 1991 (with work on the Seney-Stovall Chapel extending to 1997). The photographs appear to capture a preliminary survey of the property and perhaps the earliest phases of restoration, as they only depict the complex in a rather decrepit state.

The collection consists of eight items concerning The Mourners and the Mourned, written by Lucy Fulghum O'Brien. Included among them are a letter from Lucy with descriptive and genealogical family information; funeral information on Mary R. Gifford and Jack J. Worth; and a photo of Lucy Raysor, Alma Richardson, and Chloe Bloodworth.

The collection consists of papers of Wilson Lumpkin from 1828-1869. The papers consist mainly of personal correspondence (1828-1859) from Lumpkin to his wife, Annis Hopkins Lumpkin, and children written from Washington, D.C. while he was serving as a U.S. Representative and Senator and during his involvement with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The collection also includes a "memorandum" notebook (1838-1869) in which Lumpkin recorded a few diary entries, genealogical notes, recollections of his childhood and political career, and lists of slave births. The collection included a broadside, Letter from Ex-Governor Lumpkin (BRO 1860 L4), which has been added to the broadside collection.

Contains a diploma from 1860, the inaugural year of the University of Georgia Law School, known then as Lumpkin Law School. Diploma is made out to George L. Peavy, a former Georgia State Senator, and is signed by founders Joseph Henry Lumpkin, William Hope Hull, and Thomas R.R. Cobb, but only Cobb's name is legible.

The collection consists of one black and white photograph of Luther Burbank and Mrs. Burbank standing with Nell Forbes of Atlanta.

The collection consists of letters, bills, and receipts of L.W. Wells. Business dealings relate to the Georgia communities of Columbus, Louisville, and Waynesboro, and to Decatur, Alabama.

The collection consists of The Ku Klux Klan and the Days of Reconstruction or The Shadow of the Kennesaw by Lyman W. Denton. The manuscript (typescript, 34 pages) centers on Klan activities in the Kennesaw, Georgia area.