This series contains personal papers of Harry and Lowney Handy, and James Jones. The papers of other persons who did not have significant amounts of manuscript material are located here. The series contains Lowney Handy's commonplace books, address books, examples of her advice to Colony writers, and newspaper clippings; also memorabilia the Handy's 1958 trip to Spain; and documents pertaining to Lowney's family, the Turners.

The personal papers of James Jones include some of his army documents, his 1951 will, and an address book which also contains some notes on characters in "From Here to Eternity."