Three diaries covering 1847, 1852, and 1855-1857 of Maryville College student and alumnus Jonathan Maxwell Hoffmeister [Huffmaster] (class of 1848). 1847 Diary contains descriptions of classes, students, faculty, local community, and family members (including deaths of brother and fiancee in local epidemic). 1852 and 1855-1857 diaries cover family life and ministry in northeast Tennessee.

Correspondence to/from Andrew Blackburn and Ann Elizabeth Gillespy.

Publishing proposal and financial notes for the Presbyterian Witness newspaper (Andrew Blackburn, editor)

Letter to "My Dear Niece" from Jane W. [Carson], 1913 envelope, and an undated sermon (likely written by Andrew Blackburn). Note: this letter is separate as it is unlikely to be directly related to the Blackburn/Gillespy family.

Correspondence to/from Andrew Blackburn and Ann Elizabeth Gillespy.

Correspondence, financial records, land records, poetry, short stories, publications, memorials, photographs, calling cards, newspaper clippings, a lock of hair, and other material from Dr. Alexander Brabson Tadlock, Clara (Moyse) Tadlock, and the Tadlock family. Of note is correspondence to Clara (Moyse) Tadlock from Hamilton Fish (US Secretary of State), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Whitcomb Riley.

Diplomas, photographs, programs, and invitations collected by James Morrison Brown during his time as a student at Maryville College.

Correspondence, articles, exam, speech, and other material created by or relating to Kin Takahashi.

Seven letters, two poems, one sermon outline, Presbyterian Witness publishing proposal, and other material created by or pertaining to the family of Andrew and Ann Elizabeth (Gillespy) Blackburn.

Football (signed by Obie Jenkins and team members), leather-bound 1939 graduation program, and two 1940 letters from Obie Jenkins to his girlfriend Betty Jean Felix. Obie Jenkins is one of MC's WW2 Gold Stars.