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This collection contains nine folders of correspondence sent to the Torreysons of Knoxville, mostly between February and April of 1942.

This collection consists primarily of two bound volumes of transcriptions of letters written between Charles and Elizabeth P. Stillman from 1849 to 1865. The volumes were compiled in 1936 and 1937.

This collection includes WWII-era correspondence between Charles and Grace Bost as well as letters from friends of the family, especially other servicemen from the Springfield area. Also included in the collection are cards sent to the Bosts congratulating them on the birth of their daughter, Connie.

This collection houses two letters addressed to Charles and Virginia Baldwin. The first, written in July 1914, informs Virginia Baldwin that she has been accepted into the Book Club of California. The second, written in February 1926, informs Charles Baldwin that he has been accepted into the Grolier Club of New York City.

This collection contains a single receipt to Charles B. Howrey from the Whitmore Brothers on September 22, 1866.

This collection consists of a letter written by Dr. Charles B. Pittinger of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine affirming a statement made by the National Museum of American History that Fanny Longfellow, wife of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was the first person to receive obstetrical anesthesia in the United States from Dr. Nathan Cooley Keep. The letter is undated.

This collection includes V-mail correspondence sent by Charles Warr during 1944 from France and Germany. In these four notes to his future wife Virginia Campbell, Warr comments on conditions and the status of the war.

The papers of Dr. Charles Bell Burke consist of poems, manuscripts, book reviews, and correspondence from 1889-1915 and 1931-1935.

This collection consists of correspondence regarding a World War II prisoner of war who was a member of the 106th Infantry Division in 1945. It also contains the Railsplitter newspaper from May 1945.

This collection features photographs, news articles, book excerpts, and other papers from Charles Bray's military service during World War II and his time living in Vietnam while working with the Central Intelligence Agency.

This collection contains a letter, dated June 23, 1892, by Charles Chaillé-Long, an American soldier and a member of Charles Gordon’s staff in the Egyptian Equatoria province. The letter is to British explorer and abolitionist Samuel White Baker, Gordon’s predecessor as Governor-General of Equatoria. The letter addresses Chaillé-Long’s book that has a negative outlook on General Gordon.

The Chili Dean Papers, 1960s-1990 (bulk 1980s), house the professional papers of Charles H. Chili Dean, Chairman of the TVA during the Nuclear Power Program in the 1980s. The collection includes publications (newspapers, reports, etc.), speeches and writings, power program material (finances, project information, nuclear power plant information, etc.), and administrative files (in-house memoranda, employee relations, operation information, etc.).

This collection contains a February 21, 1862, letter from Civil War soldier Charles Christensen, camped at Cairo, Illinois, to Richard Morris of Cedar Lake Wisconsin. Christensen, a member of the 8th Wisconsin, discusses his regiment, Union victories at Forts Donelson and Henry, Confederate General Lloyd Tilghman, possible rebel attacks at Cairo, the overpopulation of prisoners of war, as well as personal family matters.

The Charles D. Butte Collection, 1921-2003 (bulk 1940-1948), consists of diaries, memoirs, and histories of the 603rd Quartermaster Graves Registration Company (QM GR CO) that served during and after World War II. This collection extensively covers the activity of the QM GR CO, and the diaries give insight to the experiences shared by its members. The collection also includes several compact discs and a floppy disk that contain electronic copies of the printed information.

These fossil prints were created by Rogers & Wells, Engravers & Printers in Chicago, Illinois and mailed to Charles W. Dabney, Jr. Ph.D. in Knoxville, Tennessee.

This collection includes a three-page typed account from Charles Kneen of his experiences in Hawaii and at Pearl Harbor in November and December 1941.

The bulk of this collection houses correspondence, reports, and other materials documenting Dr. Charles E. Trotter's work with the University of Tennessee's School Planning Lab between 1970 and 1977.