The materials in this collection appear to be the records maintained by Robert Murphy while the hotel was under his management, although there are references to the Murphy Brothers, and dates of the records run through 1938. All records are related to running the hotel as a business, and they include financial ledgers and accounting books, and correspondence regarding the restaurant, the hotel, its operations, and its guests. Much of the correspondence is very fragile and brittle, and as much of it was not in any discernable original order, it was arranged chronologically. Other correspondence was maintained in its rough alphabetical and chronological order. If a container or original order was found, that order was maintained. The financial records have been arranged chronologically and contain accounting records, invoices, petty cash records, guest accounts, and requests for payment. Correspondence contains general correspondence, room reservations, insurance company correspondence, baggage inquiries, telegrams, reference and employment requests, advertisement proposals, communications about equipment, menus, and room supplies, complaints and grievances, and correspondence with bands and performers. The series have been divided into Correspondence, Ephemera, Financial Records, and Publications and Catalogs, with Correspondence and Financial Records taking the bulk of the collection. Series and contents have been arranged in alphabetical, thereunder chronological, order, except when oversize materials required other arrangement. Researchers should take great care when handling, especially the correspondence series. Some records have residual dirt and coal dust.