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This sub-series includes the personal papers, correspondence, business, legal, and financial documents of Gardner and Eleanor Boothe. Notable items include Gardner's correspondence to Eleanor during their courtship; and a correspondence with Edith K. Roosevelt. This series also includes some papers of Gardner and Eleanor's first son and Armistead's elder brother, Gardner Jr.

This sub-series includes Armistead Boothe's personal correspondence, personal financial records including bound ledgers, awards and certificates, poetry authored by Boothe, and memorabilia from special events. Items of interest include ephemera from a dinner in Williamsburg, VA honoring and attended by Winston Churchill.

This sub-series includes documents from Boothe's legal and military careers, including legal briefs and a collection of WWII-era silk "escape" maps of the Pacific Theater.

"I'm sorry I made you Cry" - 1918, N.J. Clesi, composer and librettist;"Good Night, Germany" - 1913, Grant Clarke and Howard E. Rogers, librettists, Geo W. Meyer, composer;"Three Little Sisters" - 1942, Irving Taylor, librettist, Vic Mizzy, composer;"Remember Pearl Harbor" - 1942, Don Reid and Sammy Kaye, composers;"Good Night" - 1944, Dicker Robertson, Al Hoffman, and Frank Weldon, composers;"Wait for me Mary" - 1941, Charlie Tobias, Nat Simon, and Harry Tobias, composer;"This is worth Fighting For" - 1941, Edgar De Lange and Sam H. Stept, composers and librettist;"Goodnight Soldier" - 1943, Harry Johnson, composer;"The Caissons Go Rolling Along" - 1921, Edmund L. Gruber, composer;"G.I. Jive" - 1943, Johnny Mercer, composer;"The Bells of Normandy are ringing again" - 1944, Don Reid and Irving Miller, composer and librettists;"American Patrol" - 1942, Earl Haubrich, librettist, F.W. Meacham, composer;"Johnny Zero" - 1943, Mack David, librettist, Vee Lawnhurst, composer;"Comin' in on a wing and a Prayer" - 1943, Harold Adamson, librettist, Jimmy HcHugh, composer;"Praise the Lord and ass the Ammunition" - 1942, Frank Loesser, composer;"Laddie in Khaki" - 1910, Irvor Novello, composer.

Scope and Contents "I got plenty O' Nuttin" - 1924, George Gershwin, composer, Dubose Heyward, librettist;" Ma Little Yalla Daisy" - joe Goodwin and Raymond thunder mat, 1910"Time after time is left" - 1952, Mitchell Parish, Eleanor Young, melody, Harry D. Squires, composer and librettist composer; "Carly Headed Babby" -1926 G.H. Clutsam, composer;"Negro Spirituals" - 1922, H.T. Burleigh, composer;"Little Bunch O' Honeyness" - 1920, Carl Hahn, composer;"Cottonfield Dance" - 1904, Al. W. Brown, composer;"Mammy's little coal Black Rose" - 1929, Raymond Egan, librettist, Richard A. Whiting, composer;"Aint You coming back to Dixieland" - 1912, Al Jolson, composer;" Come Back Dixie" - 1915, Jack Mahoney, librettist, Percy Wenrich, composer;"Leap Frog" - 1908, Edwin F. Kendall, composer;"I'm missin Mammy's Kissin" - 1921, Sidney Clare, librettist, Lew Pollack, composer;"Carolina Rolling Stone" - 1921, Mitchell Parish, librettist, Eleanor Young and Harry D. Squires, composers;"My Croony Melody" - 1924, Joe Goodwin and Ray Goetz, composers;"Creole Swing-Song" - 1908, Frederick E. Weatherly and Luigi Denza, composers;"Ma Little Yalla Daisy" - 1899, Hattie Starr, composer;"The Black Cat Rag" - 1910, Frank Wooster and Ethyl B.Smith, composers."My old home in the South Land" - 1904, Mary F. Britton, I.M. Jackson, composers;"Mighty lak'a Rose" - 1901, Frank L. Stanton, librettist;"The Ragtime Violin" - 1911, Irving Berlin, composer;"Sweet and Low" - undated, J. Stanley Royce; composer;

Scope and Contents "We are Americans Too" -1935, Andy Razaf, Eubie Blake, and Charles L. Cooke, composers and librettist.

This series consists of research materials, notes, clippings, and correspondence related to the Buffalo Creek and Monongah Mine Disasters.

This series, labelled Miscellaneous Assortment by the donor, includes various correspondence sent from and received by J. Davitt McAteer, collected articles, newsletters, and clippings related to his professional and personal activities, and other miscellaneous papers.

Mo 22 may include American Society Of Agricultural Engineers and Four-H Alumni Club. Mo 22b, 22c, 22d, 22e, 22g may include Agronomy Club.

Mo 17z, 31-33, 55, 56, 57, 62, 65, 66, 68, 71, 72 may include War Memorial Chapel.

AB may include Athletics - Track & Field.

Items selected by Jesse Ball duPont, 1874-1940.

This series is related to the duPont genealogy in France and the United States, family relics, and tributes to Alfred I. duPont. It also includes correspondence and notes and galley sheets by Marquis James in preparation for publication of his biography, "Alfred I. duPont: The Family Rebel."