The series contains source material on work, education, sickness, economic challenges and family life from 1889 to 1970. It consists of correspondence from various individuals who were close to the Baldwins or Mays but who were not related to them or the family connection is distant. The series is comprised of the following sub-series: Cora Lovell Dilley (1910-1918, 1930-1970), Frank N. and Anna M. Molyneux (1916-1934), Mary Ann Baker Thomas (1904, 1910, 1931-1956), J. E. Gilbert family (1910-1918), Leta Ellis (1930), Robert Spendlove ([18--]), E. Perry and Mary Haskell (1935-1951), Thomas (Tom) and Gwen Barbour (1936-1940, 1969), Erma Bishop LeVan (1931-1936), Esther B. French ([191-?]-1924), Tom Chatterton (1937-1942, 1952, 1966), Alfred T. Jones (1927-1936), Martin and Myra (Baker) Paulson (1907, 1924-1948), Mabel A. Harland (1924-1936), Minnie Swan Mitchell (1909, 1926-1943), Frank F. Wilson (1917-1918), Jim and Mary Hargreaves (1937, 1943-1945), R.A. Travis (1913-1915), Helen F. Flint (1931-1936), Helen Wilma (Kielgas) Brekke Moore (1916, 1921-1927, 1933), C.R. Hallowell (1916-1917), Fred Shelton (1914-1917), S.M. Davis (1924-[1930?], 1936), Sam and Liz Munro (1930-1945, 1956-1967), Earl Stewart ([1938-1939?]), Winifred (Dean) Searles ([1908-1914?], 1921), Addie G. Schaff ([1910-1911?]), Kathleen F. McLaren ([1913-1935?]), Margaret Sutton ([1910-1940?]), Marion E.T. Carter ([1901-1959?]), Ida M. Gibbons (1909-1916, 1935-1970), Charles B. Howard (1934-1939), Earle G. Dale ([1913-1915?]), Mrs. F.F. Haskell ([1914-1927?]), Jessie L. Carter ([1900-1912?], [1935?]), Edna E. Carter (1906, 1914), Belle Wilcox (1934-1936), Ida Baxter ([1959-1960?]), William Kervin (1939-1940), Henry A. Haskell (1926-1946), Myrtie Putnam (1929-1936, 1942), Rose S. Lacy (1930-1933), Nettie J. Smith (1915, 1919, 1954), Esther S. Bodine ([191-?], 1920, 1939), Mary Wyman Chase (1910, 1923, 1933-1935), T. Arthur Hawkes ([1914-1939?]), Miscellaneous correspondents ([1910-1935?]).