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Correspondence between Mary and Julia Pelot, their family members, and friends. Includes a scrapbook maintained by Julia Pelot during her time at FSCW. Includes letters from Henry Wirz, "the only hanged man in the Civil War"

Personal papers and photographs (1913-1965) covering her education at Pensacola High School (1913-1917) and at Duke University (1937), her activities in Campfire Girls, and as a missionary in Argentina for the Southern Baptist Convention (1922-1926), and literary manuscripts of her work as a poet.  Other materials include Pensacola High School memorabilia (1920-1922) of Mary Louise Davis, and records of her father Charles T. Davis and his patent medicine business (Davis Remedy manufactured in Pensacola), as well as numerous family photographs.

Papers of the McGill and Suarez families of Penscola, Florida, 1836-1962, including letters, land deeds, promissory notes, indentures, tax receipts and other materials dealing with Joseph Suarez and his heirs, 1836-1905, and Gerald Byrne McGill and his family, 1905-1962. Subjects and writers include Isasc Hulse, Stephen T. Mallory II, the Navy Yard at Pensacola; St. John's Cemetery; Camp Ward No. 10 of United Confederate Veterans; Spanish Fort, Alabama and Josiah Blakely; the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and the Nixson family. [145 pieces]