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The collection contains eight letters from J. Ogden Murray to W.P. Nye (all dated 1914) about health, trips to Washington, D.C., politics, and finances. It also contains a letter to W.M. Brown from Mrs. J.E. Bond (1927) thanking him for the check he sent and providing additional history of Dr. Nye's collection and a book containing a record of relics.

This collection contains materials that document the evolution of the writing slate from stone book slate to native slate blackboards. This includes a slate book with 8 quartz paint pages with attached pencil holder,and another book with pencil holder and 6 quartz painted "slates". The cover of one is stamped in black and gold with a school scene and applied litho of two girls playing stick and ball. There is also a 1940 salesman kit with five loose photos of the National School Slate Co. They depict a couple of table top models with and without an abacus and a floor model with a picture scroll at the top. This is accompanied by a tri-fold price list for a vriety of slate and blackboard related products for the National School Slate Co., SLatington, PA.

This docket book, kept from 1828 to 1830, appears to have been kept by John O. Cook, of Starkey, Yates County, NY. It records cases heard in an unknown, but possibly Yates County, NY, court. Entries include names of plaintiffs and defendants; dates of actions; final dispositions; and fees, damages and court costs. Most of the cases were decided for the plaintiffs. There were a few trials held at Harpending's Inn, Dundee, NY, and a few were appealed. In addition to Yates County, some cases were in then Steuben County, now Schuyler County, NY, towns. The book seems to have passed into the hands of Ezra D. Cook, son of John O., who kept farm accounts in the back from about 1839 to 1843.

The Yeaman and Walker Family Collection consists mainly of correspondence and financial records of the Yeaman and Walker families, mostly relating to tobacco farming in Virginia between 1840 and 1910. The predominant locations are Pittsylvania County, Botetourt County, Charlotte County, Lynchburg, and Danville. Letters demonstrate economic stress after the Civil War, particularly as it relates to crop and livestock prices. Other topics discussed include sickness and deaths of children and neighbors, as well as community social life. Financial documents include receipts from Lynchburg and Danville tobacco warehouses and other businesses and Thomas B. Yeaman's records of hired work.