Most of this collection contains private and unofficial papers relating to Eugene Talmadge's contested Senatorial Primary Election, 1938, against Walter F. George. Also included are a scrapbook of political newsclippings, invitations for Talmadge to speak, and three boxes of bank statements and check stubs. One box consists of Elsie Ray's private papers (1922 - 1930), who later became Eugene Talmadge's executive secretary.