Correspondence, an autobiographical sketch (19 leaves), eulogy for his wife, Mabel Shride Westergaard (1883-1955), copies of his published articles, including "Orin G. Libby," (6 pages), "The Baltic Sea in history," (14 pages), and an annotated copy of "Marcus Thrane in America : some unpublished letters from 1880-1884" (5 pages).