Myron Eells, born in Oregon in 1843, was a missionary at the Skokomish Reservation in Washington, and a trustee of both Pacific University and Whitman College. This collection includes 7 letters by Eells, mostly related to Pacific University, and 3 anti-slavery pamphlets that may have belonged to him.

Irving Story was a professor of English at Pacific University in the 1930s-1940s who wrote about the poet Walt Whitman. This collection is comprised of his collection of research notes, offprints of articles, and other materials related to Whitman.