Collection documents all three families and Gardiner, Maine. Includes correspondence, compositions, photograph, and notebooks of verse.

Collection pertains to both the Howe and Richards families. Includes mostly letters to them from friends and colleagues, and a few other items.

Primarily correspondence of Maud Howe Eliot, Julia Ward Howe, Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, and Rosalind Richards. Correspondents include Hester Alington, Henry Beston, Margaret (Terry) Chanler, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth, Olivia Howard Dunbar, and Annie (Ward) Mailliard. Includes photographs of Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Maud Howe Elliott and others.

Papers of the Robinson family.

Collection pertains to all three families and to Gardiner, Maine. Includes correspondence, compositions, photograph, and notebooks of verse.

Correspondence, journals, compositions and other papers of Samuel Gridley Howe and Julia Ward Howe, and materials relating to other Howe family members.

Consists of correspondence, certificates, journals, genealogical notes, wills, military papers, and legal documents.