Letters are between Daniel O. Dougherty, Jr., and his wife Wilhelmina while he was in France and she remained at home in Atlanta in 1918 - 1919 and between Daniel and his son D. O. III from 1940 - 1945 while the former remained in Atlanta and the latter was away studying or serving in the armed forces.

Correspondence, census and courthouse records, research notes, and oral history trancription relating to the Dougherty, Daugherty, Smith, and Lillard families in Tennessee and Atlanta, Georgia. Of particular interest is the identified photocopy of an Atlanta Calhoun Elementary School photograph (1893 - 1894) and a transcription of a Bradley County, Tennessee, school record book from the early 19th century.