Material includes signed letter from David H. Strother to Perley Poore, Berkley Springs, March 25, 1858; lottery ticket for town lot in Bath, 1814; Porte Crayon autograph, and a slave list, Berkley County. Photostats of material in the Library of Congress include an signed letter from William Wirt to his daughter, August 31 1823 on Berkeley Springs; Thomas Jefferson to Mr. Rodney Washington, December 8, 1808 in regard to gambler Thomas Bailey's assault on Jefferson's secretary; portion of a Journal of President James K. Polk describing a visit to Bath in 1848; and a section of the journal of Samuel Vaughan noting a visit to Bath in 1787. The collection also includes a section of "Uria Brown's Journal" from the "Maryland Historical Magazine," volumes 11 and 12 (1915, 1916), detailing a visit to the springs at Bath.

Typescripts include a copy of a diary kept by Robert Atkinson, a political prisoner from Morgan County while at Fort Delaware, 1862; notes on the Hinokle-Duckwall-Shade families copied from letters and notes of Laura Shade Michael; extracts from the diary of Deborah Comly, a governess for Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tutt of Berkley Springs in 1873, including an account of a trip to the new resort of Deer park, Maryland; and references to Berkeley Springs in Donn Piatt's "Sunday Meditations" (1893)