Records of Slaton as a lawyer, Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives, and governor. Also included are Slaton and Grant family material and news clippings collected nationally on the Leo Frank case and Slaton's response to it some in scrapbooks. About half the collection are the personal and official records of Samuel Carter Atkinson, Associate Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court (1906-1931).

Governor Slaton's correspondence, papers, and clippings, Atlanta, Georgia; also papers of Sarah Grant (Mrs. John Marshall) Slaton and of Martha Lee Slaton and Kate Slaton Blanchard, sisters of the Governor. Includes papers concerning the Waldo, Macgregor, Slaton, and Alexander families and about Bishop Hiram A. Boaz and John Marshall Slaton, Jr.