Correspondence, speeches, writings, articles, financial records, printed matter, scrapbook of obituary notices and condolence letters, and other papers relating primarily to child labor reform, particularly McKelway's role as secretary for the Southern States of the National Child Labor Committee. Other subjects include women's suffrage, prohibition, national political affairs, the Hoke Smith-Georgia Historical Association correspondence of 1917, and McKelway family matters. Family papers include boyhood letters of Benjamin Mosby McKelway and papers pertaining to the life of St. Clair McKelway. Correspondents include Carrie Chapman Catt, Josephus Daniels, Florence Kelley, Henry F. Keenan, Amos Pinchot, Gifford Pinchot, Theodore Roosevelt, Hoke Smith, Joseph P. Tumulty, Woodrow Wilson, the Georgia Historical Association, and Norman Hapgood, editor of Harper's Weekly.