The scrapbook which forms this collection is a loosely bound volume, titled "Kiplingisms." It was assembled by Rudyard Kipling's friend, Mrs. Edmonia Taylor Hill, and contains mostly newspaper and journal articles by and about the author for the period, 1888 to 1937.

Frank N. (Francis Nelson) Pilling was born in Baltimore, October 17, 1908. The papers consist largely of his personal writings, some in typescript and some in published form. Other items include correspondence, photographs, genealogical records, and documents and notes from his wartime service in London.

The Horstmeier family resided in the Boston, Massachusetts area in the 1890s. The scrapbook (1855-1863) contains clippings of poems and prose removed from newspapers and most likely assembled during the Civil War period.

The collection (1897-1943) consists of three scrapbooks, the subjects of which are the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allan Poe. The scrapbooks were compiled by Cassandra Moncure Lyne (born 1875) in collaboration with her mother, also named Cassandra Moncure Lyne (1845-1934).

Paul Myron Wentworth Linebarger (1871-1939) was an American lawyer and legal adviser to Sun Yat-sen, 1907-1925, and to the Chinese Nationalist Government, 1930-1937. The volume which forms this collection is a bound, carbon copy typescript entitled "China Smiles Through" dating from 1937-1938.

This item is a remembrance book created in memory of R. Champlin "Champ" Sheridan, 1952 alumnus of Johns Hopkins University and benefactor of the university's Sheridan Libraries.