Wister family papers include family correspondence, household account books, a European travel journal, property lists, William Rotch Wister obituaries and clippings, a memorial for Mary Channing Wister, and ephemera including greeting cards, invitations, and calling cards. Correspondence includes letters between Mary Channing Eustis Wister and her sister Ella Eustis prior to Mary's marriage to William Rotch Wister, letters to William Rotch Wister from University of Pennsylvania classmates, and letters to William Rotch Wister from his brother John Wister, Jr., from Duncannon Iron Works.

Three Mary Channing Eustis Wister household account books, 1868-1887, record daily expenditures on household supplies, services, and food. Mary Channing Eustis Wister's European travel journal, 1883, records her itinerary and brief notes on places such as London, Cologne, Geneva, Paris, and Edinburgh.

Property lists include an undated record of the disposition of the property of Sarah Logan Wister (mother of William Rotch Wister) and property schedules for Mary Channing Eustis Wister and her children Francis A. Wister, Ella E. Wister, John Caspar Wister, and Mary Channing Wister, 1884-1894.

Channing family papers include genealogical notes, William Channing, 1751-1793's, bar admission and appointment as a justice of the peace, Mr. and Mrs. William Ellery Channing's passport to France and Holland, 1822, a letter to William H. Channing from Marianne G. Jackson regarding William Ellery Channing, clippings, engravings, including two of William Ellery Channing, and ephemera including bookplates and calling cards.

Clark family papers include correspondence to Jonas and Jonathan Clark, bills, deeds for property in Chelmsford and Tewksbury, and a commonplace notebook kept by Mary Clark containing original poetry.

Kittredge family papers include family correspondence, a copy of the constitution and by-laws of the First Baptist Society of Tewksbury, miscellaneous bills, a division of swamp land listing Kittredges, 11 Mar. 1710, and Republican City Committee of Lawrence materials.

Endicott family papers include seven oversize documents, including William C. Endicott, Jr.'s diploma from Salem Classical and High School, his life membership certificates for the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, the Bostonian Society, and the Boston Society for Natural History. Also includes surveyed plans for two farms in Danvers, Mass.

Miscellaneous papers include two charters for the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, the first incorporating it in 1892 as the Massachusetts Society and the second changing the name in 1893 to the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, a notice to the Selectmen of the Overseers of the Poor in Tewksbury that Ebenezer Flint is a pauper, ca. 1800, two promissory notes to James F. Puffer, 1869 and 1872, a folder of unidentified poetry, an unidentified paper regarding the 56th congress, clippings, two unidentified notebooks, the embroidered initials M.C.W., twelve hand-colored marine bird picture cards, engravings and silhouettes, travel brochures, and printed ephemera.