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This collection consists of a four page holograph manuscript containing the text of a speech given by an unidentified speaker on the VMI's Founders Day anniversary, November 11, 1843.

The Order Books contain official orders and notices concerning the military regulations and operations, as well as the academic administration of the Institute. The definitions of Orders, Special Orders, and Memoranda overlap and vary over time.

Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings providing a chronological view of VMI activities, events. Categories include general topics; sports, and special topics. From the 1950's forward these were compiled by the Public Relations staff; prior to that date they originated with various other employees, including the Librarian Nellie Gibbs. The Gibbs sometimes contain photographs pasted to pages.

This collection consists of the papers (21 items) of 19th century VMI faculty member William Gilham, including:

• Official Register of the Officers and Cadets of the U. S. Military Academy (June 1841)
• A VMI weekly class report (circa 1860)
• A dispatch signed by General Robert E. Lee
• Correspondence, including a letter from Moses Ezekiel (VMI Class of 1866)
• Photographs where the subjects are Robert E. Lee, Gilham and his wife, Libby Prison, and Richmond, Virginia during the Civil War
• Invitations to social events in Lexington, Virginia from the McDowell Family

The William N. Mercer papers consist of legal documents (1874-1875) regarding Mercer's bequest of 1,000 books to the VMI Library, an invoice (1874) for medical services submitted to the executor of Mercer's estate, and a document transferring a pew in Christ Church, New Orleans, from Jane E. Barnard to Mercer (1845).

This collection consists of one notebook that belonged to Cadet William P. Tams (VMI Class of 1873). The notebook includes:

• Class notes for courses in mineralogy, civil and military engineering, and chemistry
• A copy of a lecture by Superintendent Francis H. Smith ("Lecture to the 1st Class on Moral Sense, November 5, 1872")
• Grade reports in chemistry, physiology, Latin, and astronomy

This collection consists of one letter (dated September 25, 1890) from William S. Weddell to his mother. The letter describes the day on which his classmate Warner T. Taliaferro died following a fight with a fellow cadet, Frank W. McConnico.