The collection consists of 23 letters and three letter fragments from Smith to family members during and immediately after World War I, two letters from the War Department and the Treasury Department to Smith and his family regarding injuries he received in battle, a much later letter from Smith to a niece writing a genealogy of the Smiths, and a photograph of Smith shortly after his enlistment. Several letters have been published in The Ancestors and Descendants of Asa Andrew and Sceleta Caroline (Abernethy) Smith, vol. 1, compiled and edited by Gloria Lee (Miller) Counts (North Little Rock: Gloria Lee Miller Counts, 1984).