This collection includes material relating to the Cherokee Indians and their removal; the Brainerd Mission; the Civil War; the South; the United Daughters of the Confederacy; historical documents (including two letters from Teddy Roosevelt), publications and journals, and literature and art. Also includes materials relating to Chattanooga lawyer and historian, Charles McGuffey (1842-1916), and this portion includes several letters and documents pertaining to his grandfather, the noted physician and writer Daniel Drake (1785-1852) of Cincinnati, and a letter from British novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Correspondence, research material, historical documents and items of Mrs. Anne Bachman Hyde (1868-1959), Chattanooga historian, Historian-General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and collector.