This collection consists of houses deeds, contracts, wills, speeches, correspondence, speeches, and manuscripts from Moses White, documenting the history of East Tennessee and the University of Tennessee. Also in the collection, a letter from Moses White to Pryor Lea dated April 27, 1879. As East Tennessee College was nearing their name changing ceremony (changing to the University of Tennessee), White wrote to Lea asking him questions about Samuel Carrick’s account book from 1804-1809 and some unknown history in Carrick’s private book, as Pryor Lea was one of the only living people to remember anything from the late 1700s to early 1800s of East Tennessee College. Rev. Samuel Carrick was Blount College’s (University of Tennessee) first president in 1794.

Moses graduated from East Tennessee University with a degree in law in 1850 and was an elected member of the Board of Trustees at East Tennessee University in 1877.