This collection is primarily made up of correspondence, clippings, and photographs.

Important subjects in this collection include: rural schools, race relations, and New Orleans history. Among the correspondents are Jackson Davis, Edmund E. Day, Edwin Embree, Abraham Flexner, Raymond B. Fosdick, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Louis Shores, S. L. Smith, and Anson Phelps Stokes.

This material consists of administrative and program and policy information in the form of correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and reports.

Important subjects in this collection include Rose's election to Peabody College Presidency, Peabody Fund Award, International Health Division, travels, and fishing.