The collection is primarily genealogical documents and materials pertaining to the civic activities of Julia Willet. The Foreacre family papers include service orders for William Foreacre from the Civil War, newspaper clippings, and family histories. The scrapbook, presented to Delia Foreacre at Christmas 1962, includes newspapers clippings relating to family members and a few pieces of correspondence. The majority of the materials pertaining to Julia Willet are newspaper clippings and correspondence chronicling her civic activities. Included in the Ella Brantley papers are two letters signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt as governor of New York and one by Woodrow Wilson as president of the United States.