The bulk of this collection consists of papers and copies of letters, receipts, and other documents amassed by Martha Pearson Cook Winship and her daughter: Anna Eliza Flournoy. The files largely consist of genealogy on the Winship and Flournoy families with sources of information that include newspaper clippings, tributes from United Daughters of the Confederacy, and correspondence. Personal papers in the collection include correspondence, and scrapbook materials. Of particular note is: the diary of Annie Laurie Flournoy that records a trip to New York in 1901. The collection also includes a copybook from Anna Eliza Winship that contains a variety of copied items: including milita rosters from the Civil War, as well as, poetry and lecture notes. Some items in the collection are xerographic reproductions, while others are transcriptions without any originals or copies.