This collection consists of news clippings collected by Sara Robinson, Charles Robinson's wife, and compiled into scrapbooks. The clippings treat the lives of Charles Robinson, John Brown, James H. Lane, and numerous others prominent in Kansas history. There is biographical information about Lawrence residents, local and regional history.

Postal records from the North Lawrence post office, 1884-1885. Legible coverage includes records from Dec. 8, 1884 to Dec. 18, 1884 and March 14, 1385 to Sept. 30, 1885. The section from Jan. 1, 1885 to March 13, 1885 has been used as a scrapbook for newspaper clippings, mostly obituaries of early Kansas men.

Margaret Thompson Henderson was born in Parsons, Kansas and graduated from the University of Kansas at Lawrence in 1905. Her 91-page scrapbook of news clippings from the early 1900s chronicles notable people, places and events in the history of Kansas, the Lawrence community, and the University of Kansas. Included are published poems, biographies, and obituaries of famous Kansans.