Letter from President D. B. Purinton WVU, to President W. O. Thompson, Ohio State University, inquiring about rules governing athletics at OSU.
Correspondence among James Pindall, Daniel Boardman, Phineas Chapin, and William Hacker, respecting Boardman's ejectment suits for land in Lewis Co., (W Va.)
Actual-size facsimile of Daniel Decatur Emmett's original manuscript of the music and lyrics for the song "Dixie's Land". Emmett composed the song in 1859. The facsimile was created by George Bird Evans, the owner of the original manuscript, circa 1960-1961. The facsimile also includes historical notes by Evans.
Ledger of a Jefferson County blacksmith, Daniel E. Strayer. There are entries for each customer, including their method of payment, such as cash, exchange, etc.
The correspondence, scrapbooks, articles and speeches of the collection document the later portion of the life of Daniel Hale (1912-1975), a Princeton physician and conservationist, who was a creator of the board of the Southern Soil Conservation District, and a founder of the Mountain Resource Conservation and Development Area. Correspondents include Robert C. Byrd, James Kee, Arch A. Moore, Jr., and Jennings Randolph.
Seven notebooks and booklets, one folder of miscellaneous material, notes and class materials of Daniel Hirst, who taught school in Loudoun County, Virginia, around 1826 and later. There are exercises and definitions on practical mathematics, surveying, algebra, geometry, simple accounting and English grammar.
Seven letters to John M. Speek from Daniel Lefever who as a lawyer was acting as an agent for Speek in selling his property in the vicinity of Martinsburg. In a couple of letters he mentions damages done to the buildings by the Union forces occupying them.