Collection consists of incoming letters and a few telegrams concerning Utah political matters written by other Utah republicans. The primary correspondent was Reed Smoot, Republican senator from Utah (1903-1933) and Provo banker; many of his letters regard their joint mining ventures. Also includes a delegate certificate from the ninth session of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress, June, 1897 and a photocopy of a life sketch of C.E. Loose from the Herald Journal, January, 1929.