This ledger houses the notes, essays, research, and observations of Dr. Barnabas Wood, a dental surgeon who lived in Nashville before the Civil War. His interests included (among other things) physiognomy, phrenology, slavery, spirituality, morality, botany, and zoology.

This collection houses a reel-to-reel audiotape of James Agee's The Quiet One. The documentary film, for which Agee wrote commentary, was released in 1948.