The collection is primarily composed of miscellaneous materials from Frances de le Montayne's association with Wells College, including an extensive collection of Goodnight Notes from her classmates. Most the material from this collection is estimated to be from the late 1920s when Frances was a student at Wells.

The Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston Collection covers three periods of the life of the famed Wells alumna. The years of 1884 to 1885 cover Frances' attendance at Wells College as a student. The second covers her life as a newly wedded First Lady of President Grover Cleveland from 1886 until the early twentieth century. The third part of the collection cover Frances' departure from the White House to her return to Aurora, New York in 1913, when she married Thomas Preston, who taught at Princeton University before teaching at Wells College. The collection also contains portraits, articles, and photographs of the commemoration after her death in 1947.

Papers of Helen Fairchild Smith, Lady Principal, Professor of English, and Dean of Wells College from 1876-1905, including correspondence and diaries.

This collection primarily contains financial records from Aurora Inn Inc., miscellaneous correspondences, and photographs from Wells in the early 20th century.

The collection contains material relating to the history of Wells College, including newspaper clippings and histories of the college written prior to Dieckmann’s publication of Wells College: A History in 1995. The collection also contains materials relating to Mary Hunter Marsh ’17 and Eleanor Hunter Byrne ’29, including correspondence written by the sisters while students at Wells College, as well as photographs, many undated or unidentified.

This collection contains correspondence, photographs and ephemera from Jane Morgan's student life at Wells College. Additionally, there are also news clippings and reunion materials contained within it.

The Jean S. Davis collection contains personal notes related to Wells College, Aurora, Auburn Prison, Dr. Macmillan, George Morgan Ward, Helen Fairchild Smith, Robert Peter Tristram Coffin, Frances Folsom Cleveland, and many professors from Wells.

The LBA (Lesbian Bisexual Alliance) Papers cover the groups' activities on the Wells College campus from the years between 1988 and 1995. Included are meeting minutes, programs, educational material, as well as information on UNYGALIN (Upstate NY Gay and Lesbian Intercollegiate Network).

The collection contains letters written by the women from 1923 until 1981. Also included in the collection are photographs of the women.

The majority of this collection is the correspondence between Sylvia Warner and those she sought information from; the Takada family, Wells college, etc. The remainder of this collection includes the original manuscript, the published book, handwritten poems of Robert Coffin, info on atomic weapons.