This collection consists of three letters written from the years 1917-1918 by University of Tennessee professor of English, Dr. J. Douglas Bruce. All three letters are directed to Dr. Albert C. Baugh, a renowned English professor at the University of Pennsylvania. In the letters, Dr. Bruce discusses his work as well as Dr. Baugh's work in the field of English Literature.

This collection consists mostly of personal diaries kept by Kenneth Knickerbocker while he was pursuing graduate studies at Yale University in the early 1930's and at one of his early teaching posts at Rhode Island State College in the early 1940's. Also included are several other personal items.