The collection consists of an April 1998 copy of Baker's manuscript "Timbered Again: The Story of the National Forests in Texas", and a copy of his 1956 doctoral dissertation.

Included in these papers are deeds, survey plats, indentures, field notes, land grants, receipts, promissory notes, a limited amount of personal and business correspondence, and estate papers of Madison G. Whitaker. Also included are some genealogical materials on the Fitts and Whitaker families.

Correspondence, land documents, legal and financial papers of this San Augustine County family. Family members also lived in Virginia, Ohio, Mississippi and items in the collection relate to those places. Includes correspondence with James Pinckney Henderson, the first Governor of the State of Texas.

Civil War letters from Watson, Rusk County soldier, to his parents and sister while serving in the Texas Cavalry. Also include service records, receipt for a gun, and a pension application. This is a collection of photocopied material.

Legal documents of Jesse Watkins, Justice of the Peace of Nacogdoches (1837-1838); diary and autobiography of Richard Overton Watkins, Presbyterian minister and Texas Ranger of Nacogdoches; reminiscences of Jesse J. Watkins about the Runaway Scrape, the Cherokee Indian War and other early Texas events; and genealogical material of the Watkins family.

Typed transcript of examinations of Malvin Houston and William M. Everett, defendants, and statements of witnesses in the case of the robbery and murder of Colonel Richard Waterhouse of San Augustine, Texas.

Boxes 1-8 (12 linear feet) do not have a defined intellectual hierarchy beyond the physical box/folder division of the collection. Box 9 (0.5 linear feet) is a 2012 addendum and arranged into 3 series: 1. Presidents (9 folders) 2. Politicians and Political Events (3 folders) 3. Miscellaneous (1 folder)

Six notebooks of essays, notebooks are indexed.  Essays have been transcribed and published in book form.

Newspaper clippings about Mary Lynn Baxter and galleys of two of her novels, Another Kind of Love and Shared Moments, both published by Silhouette Books.

Original documents, photocopies, typescripts, and newspaper clippings relating to Bean's life and activities. Included in the collection is an agreement to use a Salt Lick in 1835 and an 1835 bond for debts owed.

Artist and faculty member at SFASU. Collection includes newspaper clippings, programs of exhibits, original drawings illustrating The Yazoo River, prints of birds of Eastern Texas and Western Louisiana, magazine articles illustrated by Turner, and biographical information.

Smith County, Texas family. Letters, land office document, and poem relating to the Tillman J. Turner family. Several letters concern incidents during the Civil War.

The papers consist of correspondence to, from and about Tucker concerning family matters, politics, the Civil War, and farming.

The collection consists correspondences, newspapers articles, and research concerning the Texas Historical Foundation and East Texas.

The collection consists of family photographs, letters and tax receipts.

This is a small collection and consists primarily of photographs and newspaper clippings about the family of Charles H. Tindall. The collection also includes a song book and Dr. Tindall's prescription book.

The collection consists of typed manuscripts of Monterey and The Face; several magazines containing short stories; reviews and literary criticism; a photograph of Tilford; biographical information; and historical data on the Tilford-Hunt Lumber Company