The collection contains correspondence from Theodore Roosevelt, Kansas Senator Arthur Capper, William Allen White, Kansas Attorney General William Smith, and Herbert Hoover, as well as clippings and radio broadcasts concerning Mr. McLaughlin. Collection also contains a delegate medal owned by McLaughlin from the Republican National Convetion held in Kansas City in 1928.

McLaughlin was a member of the Kansas State Board of Regents from 1931-1938 and again in 1939-1955. This collection consists of McLaughlin's memoirs as a member of the Board, Twenty-four Enjoyable Years.