The collection contains subject files, research files, and corresponding file cards, much of which Avery used to write her two books. Other items include materials related to Avery's books, writings, class notes, faculty and student evaluations, conference and lecture material, material related to the Mormon History Association, correspondence, miscellaneous articles and essays, and general office files.

This collection contains correspondence, genealogical research, charts, documents, announcements, articles, census records, burial records, and marriage records used in researching the Goodwin family history. The research was conducted, compiled, and donated by Wayne O. Goodwin.

This collection consists of the extensive research papers of Ernest Mahan, compiled during the 1930s while preparing a biography on Joseph Smith, Jr. For unknown reasons the biography was never completed.

Unedited manuscript of the book.

The majority of the Sonne collection is research on ships, steamboats, and sailing ships.

This collection contains correspondence between brothers Raymond Taylor and Samuel W. Taylor between 1966 and 1972.

This one-box collection contains the papers of Daniel H. Wells spanning the period of 1833 to 1892. His papers consist of fifty-seven letters of correspondence (1833-1892), a Nauvoo Legion receipt (1858), and two handwritten poems (1857). Of particular interest in this collection is an August 6, 1846 handwritten letter/report to Wells discussing the status of the Battle of Nauvoo.