Frederick B. Noyes was born in 1872. He attended Johns Hopkins University and received his B.A in 1893. This collection consists of classroom notes written by Noyes while he was an undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins University during the years 1891 to 1893.

John Martin Vincent (1857-1939) years was a Professor of European History at Johns Hopkins University. This collection consists of correspondence, scrapbooks, subject files, and personal materials ranging in date from 1881 to 1925. The bulk of the material is correspondence dating from 1900-1910.

Leonard Leopold Mackall, American bibliographer, editor and collector was born in Baltimore on January 29, 1879. The collection consists of correspondence, scrapbooks, subject files and other research materials. The correspondence in the collection spans the years 1547 to 1937 with the bulk of the material spanning 1900-1937. There is additional information dating from 1949 regarding the collection after it was acquired by Johns Hopkins Libraries.

William Stone Grauer (born 1915) entered the freshman class at Hopkins in 1932. The papers span the period 1926 through 1940 but the bulk revolve around his freshman and sophomore years, 1932-1934. The papers are largely the correspondence among William and his parents Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lee Grauer and his sister Betty Alice Grauer.