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Correspondence and literature about the South from many Virginia and women institutions including the Virginia Division of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Virginia League of Women Voters, Virginia Military Institute, Bull Run Battlefield, Virginia Historical Pageant Association, Virginia Social Science Association, The Social Recorder of Virginia, Virginia Historical Society, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Confederate Memorial Literary Society, Confederated Southern Memorial Association, The Pocahantas Memorial Association, the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, The Westmoreland Club, William and Mary College, and The Woman's Democratic Organization of Virginia. There are programs honoring Richard Snowden Andrews, Sam Houston, and Edward Virginius Valentine.There is also a speech by Celestia Essie Wade Butler Smith, and invitations from Governor Harry F. Byrd.

Westmoreland Davis letters to Celestia Essie Wade Butler Smith about the Virginia Conference on Governmental Efficiency, his political defeat in 1922, and invitations from his wife, Marguerite Davis who is a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Included is a letter from Thomas G. Burch recommending Celestia Essie Wade Butler Smith for state delegate of the National War Savings Committee. There are also Westmoreland Davis campaign brochures, articles and pamphlets.

Celestia Essie Wade Butler Smith descriptions of her trip to a historic meeting of the legislature which was honoring Mr. Rockefeller and her attendance at a party at the Governor's mansion with Governor and Mrs. Westmoreland Davis.

Papers related to the United Confederate Veterans, League of Women Voters, Democratic National Committee, New York Society of Women, Ford Motor Company speech about Robert E. Lee, American Education Foundation, Women's National Radio Committee, National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America, The Southern Society of Washington, Woman's Universal Alliance, Conference on Governmental Efficiency, the League of American PenWomen, Washington Day Committee of North Carolina, and the United States Commission for the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of George Washington.

Includes autobiographical writing notes about her experiences and drafts of speeches. Topics include Woodrow Wilson, pardon of Frank James, New York, Washington, and Virginia.

Writings, poems, notes, untitled pages, composition notebooks, and titled stories including "Lletters of a Vacationist", "Peace, Peace, Peace", "The Trial of Henry Wirz of Andersonville Prison", "Khaki", "The Khaki Line", "The Ex Perdita", "Letters of a Flapper Grandma", "The Pioneer Picture", "The Autobiography of a Failure", "My Road", "The Persian Kitty", "Bait for Bachelors", "Arlington", "My Daughter Across the Water", and "In A Silence". Some publishers' correspondence included.

There are poems, manuscripts and untitled drafts by Celestia Essie Wade Butler Smith, including "The Scepter of Ahazuerus", "The Natural Bridge", "Lexington", "A Wish", "Gathered Rosebuds", "The Pictures", "The Most Unique Museum in the World", "The Return", "Drury's Bluff Battle", "The Mystery of a Pack of Cards", "Your Friend and Mine", "Beyond Despair", "The Man Who Has Won", "The Making of Arms and Ammunition's in the Confederacy", "Stars and Heaven", "Mystery", "A Christmas Wish", "The South's Part in Establising the United States", and "The House By the Side of the Road". There are also poems by other individuals including her brother Thomas Greer Wade, Sam Walter Foss, Elizabeth Reid Hill, and Alexander Jessup. There are also a few letters from various publishers.