The collection consists of the personal papers of William Harding Jackson. Correspondents include President Eisenhower, Constantine FitzGibbon, Arthur Gardner, Gordon Gray, and Richard M. Nixon, among others. A run of letters regarding Wendell Willkie's 1940 presidential campaign is also included among the documents. Some typed manuscripts by Jackson, a few photographs of him, and a series of printed materials round out the collection.

One copy of an article by Frances Perkins titled "Eights Years As Madam Secretary" from Fortune magazine, September 1941. It includes a reproduction of a painted portrait of Perkins by Arthur Syk.