This collection houses a love poem entitled "Pride" written by Garrett W. McQuiddy on July 24, 1897. It appears to be a telegram sent from Anderson, Tennessee to Dardanelle, Arkansas printed on a Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway Train Order form.

This collection houses a variety of material documenting George Garrett's scholarly and literary career. Although some of these items show Garrett's early work, the majority of the material is more recent. Of particular interest is the material documenting Garrett's Southern Excursions: Views on Southern Letters in My Time (2003).

This collection contains correspondence, magazine and newspaper articles, notes, and objects all concerning Jane Merchant that Shirley Whitney Kerr collected and kept over the years she knew Merchant and after Merchant's death in 1972.

The Stephen L. Mooney Papers, 1949-1971, house poetry and essay manuscripts, correspondence with other poets concerning the Tennessee Poetry Journal, personal and professional correspondence, teaching materials, and other files relating to Mooney's life and career as a poet, editor and English professor.