The collection primarily consists of the personal correspondence of Mona Buercklin and John Irving McClurkin, Jr. Correspondence includes letters from Paul M. Wheelis to Mona Buercklin written while Wheelis was a student at the University of Arkansas and later in training at the Reserve Officer's Training Camp in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; correspondence from John Irving McClurkin, Jr. to Mona Buercklin while he was a student at the University of Arkansas and at Stanford University; and correspondence from Mona Buercklin to McClurkin while she was a high school student in Ashdown, Arkansas, and later a student at Magnolia A&M and at the University of Arkansas. Other correspondence includes a 1934 Newport High School graduation invitation from Fay Ernestine Hinson and a 1937 Ashdown High School graduation invitation from Genevieve Giacoma. Topics discussed in correspondence include campus life, family, and World War II. Other collection materials include photographs, a newspaper clipping, and ephemera.