This collection consists of materials author Patricia Cornwell collected as part of her extensive research for her publications. The collection primarily contains notebooks, pamphlets, and newspaper articles about the history and culture of 18th and 19th-century medicine and crime. Additionally, there are primary source documents about the abolitionist movement, suffragettes, Prince Albert Victor, and other 19th-century celebrities, education, and literature.

This magazine, entitled Scientia, was published in the fall of 2006 and discusses contemporary research at the University of Tennessee. Articles are devoted to such topics as behavioral systems, polymers, microbes, archeology in Mycenae, and faculty profiles.