This collection houses published works, manuscripts, correspondence, research notes, clippings, and photographs documenting the lives and works of Margaret Gray and Smiley Blanton. Topics include speech disorders in children, religion and psychiatry, Bernadette of Lourdes, St. Thomas à Becket, and Eliza Johnson.

The bulk of Margaret Gray Blanton's papers (housed in Series I, Sub-Series A) consist of notes for and drafts of her fiction and non-fiction writing. She was extremely prolific and dabbled in a number of styles, including book, poetry, short story, article, and play. Several of her works were eventually published, including Bernadette of Lourdes (1939), The Miracle of Bernadette (1958), and The White Unicorn (1961). The majority of these manuscripts, however, were either never submitted to publishers or never accepted for publication. They have been arranged chronologically according to the earliest date present in the material.

Margaret Blanton was also an avid genealogist, and some of the materials she collected documenting her own and her husband's families are housed in Sub-Series B. Among these materials are photographs, family Bibles, autograph books, and correspondence.

The majority of Smiley Blanton's papers (housed in Series II, Sub-Series A) document his professional work on speech disorders in children and on the potential for collaboration between psychiatry and religion. Most of these materials constitute draft and published copies of books, articles, radio talks, and speeches. A few items showing Blanton's early life and education (including school notebooks, diplomas, and correspondence) are housed in Sub-Series B.

Oversized material and artifacts have been placed in Series III.