Faith Yingling Knoop was a prolific children's author who wrote several children's novels, including four in Garrard Publishing Company’s "A World Explorer" series. She also wrote numerous short stories and articles for juvenile and women's publications. This collection contains manuscripts and correspondence pertaining to the four books from the “A World Explorer” series along with additional manuscripts for some of her works and published short stories.

Lois Snelling was a poet and author of numerous poems, four novels, and one biography. Several of her poems won awards from literary circles in Arkansas and Texas. This collection contains a select number of poems and manuscripts by Lois Snelling.