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This collection includes membership records, officers' reports, business papers, subscription library records, minutes of the Society's meetings and debates, receipts and letters expressing pleasure at being honored by the Society. One receipt, dated December 2, 1841, was given by Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson while he was a Virginia constable. The receipt was presented to the Franklin Society [Library] by M. W. Johnson.

This collection includes secretary's books, treasurer's book, librarian's book, treasurer's books, librarian's books, roll books, and constitutions of the Graham Philanthropic Society. The secretary's books document the minutes of the meetings. The first volume in the collection includes the creating documents when the Society was founded in 1809. The books include accounts of debates on current political and social questions, financial information, membership information, and records of student library use.

This record group contains materials created by individual academic departments.

The John D. Haskell papers contains general professional and personal papers documenting the life of John D. Haskell from 1941-2022. Papers primarily contain post-retirement personal correspondence from 2006-2022, as well as correspondence from his years as Librarian of the University of Maryland Baltimore County (1965-1969) as well as compiler of the Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire bibliographies documenting New England History. The bibliographies were accumulated as a part of the Committee for a New England Bibliography (1972-1978). The collection also contains documentation of staff members at Swem Library (1978-2006), and memberships in library and bibliographical associations. Correspondence to and from his wife, Mary Haskell, and items from Haskell's childhood are also included.

Published lecture by retired professor John McKenzie Gunn, dated April 25, 1994; "Can Economics be Both Relevant and 'good'?"

Broadside, public notice of the desire of "several gentlemen" to establish a library association in Williamsburg (though unclear if the location is actually Williamsburg, Va.). The notice further states that the Association would secure a public library and public reading room, either by purchase or donation. The first public meeting was scheduled to occur in the lecture room of the Baptist Church.

This collection includes items related to William Graham, an early rector of Washington and Lee University, then named Liberty Hall Academy. Included are two drafts of Graham's epitaph. The drafts do not match the epitaph that appears on Graham's current grave on the campus of Washington and Lee University. It could have been for his original grave in Richmond, Va., but no evidence has been found to prove that. There is a note dated April 10, 1782 to Colonel Bowyer from Graham stating he could not make it to town but submits what appears to be requested information in writing which is a list of tithables including the names of four enslaved individuals: Davie, Hill, Ester, and Tabby. There is a "Memorandum or State of Reaffirming [?] in Distress," written by Graham on February 6, 1792, religous writing, and a shared grouping of papers stitched together at the spring with instructions for transmuting brass and copper written going in one direction and documenting an arbitration between "Zech" [Zachariah?] Johnston and John Maupin written going in another. Lastly, the collection includes the appraisal conducted on Graham's personal library after his death dated September 15, 1800.