Scope and Contents Collection contains correspondence, journals, daybooks, legal documents, and genealogical information of the Farrar family, highlighting Alexander Jefferson Farrar and George Washington Farrar who traveled between Kentucky and Texas (passing through Indian Territory) during the late 1850s and then immigrated to Texas. Subjects include travel and daily life in the 1850s, Texas history, and economic history of the tobacco industry.

Scope and Contents Collection contains four special sections from the Houston Chronicle for March 2, 1986 celebrating the centennial of Texas independence. Front page sections from the Daily Oklahoman and Tulsa World headlining Timothy McVeigh death sentence for the Oklahoma City bombing, June, 1997.