The collection includes 13 booklets and 1 typescript prepared and authored by McNally. The booklets include short stories, family and local Arkansas histories, anecdotal accounts of his personal relationships, and descriptions of his experiences leading up to service in the United States Army.

This collection contains research materials on Sunnyside and Tontitown, Arkansas that were compiled by Edward Stibili during his research for Pietro Bandini: Missionary, Social Worker, and Colonizer, 1852-1917 (2017). Collection materials are predominantly photocopies of books, periodicals, archival sources, and correspondence; the collection does not contain original 19th- or 20th- century documents.