Collection consists of Beecher autographs; a Tilton autograph; one note to Miss Snowden from Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher; a colored mounted drawing of Henry Ward Beecher entitled Ye Gallant Captain; a photograph of Beecher and his sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe; and a photograph of a "redeemed slave child," 1863.

Collection contains one handwritten letter signed from William Lloyd Garrison to Harriet Beecher Stowe concerning the plight of Reverend Samuel Greene, who was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for possession of Uncle Tom's Cabin, July 22, 1862.

Collection consists of an art supplement from the Boston Sunday Globe featuring chromolithographic cut-outs from the story of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, January 26, 1896.

An actress and graduate of Earlham College, Mary Stark created a one-woman show on the life and writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, and has toured with White Ashes since 1981. Collection consists of a script (1981-2013) and DVD of White Ashes: The Life and Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Professor of Greek and theology, Calvin Stowe was the husband of Harriet Beecher Stowe. He taught at Dartmouth College, Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, Bowdoin College, and Andover Theological Seminary. Collection consists of three letters from Calvin Ellis Stowe. An 1846 letter written from Ohio to S. H. Riddel of the American Education Society describes the growth of the West; an 1865 letter to Vice-President Henry Wilson declines an invitation; an 1878 letter to Stowe's sister Sarah describes his health.

The Stowe Center's mission is to "preserve and interpret Stowe’s Hartford home and the Center’s historic collections, promote vibrant discussion of her life and work, and inspire commitment to social justice and positive change."

The manuscript materials include autograph drafts of stories, novels, and essays, and autograph transcriptions of poems. The correspondence includes letters from the author, dating from 1847 to 1880, to Cassius Clay, George Eliot, James R. Osgood, Rebecca Wetherill, and others. There are also letters relating to the author, dating from 1853 to [1869], between various correspondents including Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, Charles Beecher, Elihu Burritt, Calvin Ellis Stowe, Lady Georgiana Cavendish Howard Carlisle, W. M. Rossetti, and others. There are letters to Stowe from Henry Ward Beecher, Lyman Beecher, Lady Anna Isabella Milbanke Byron, George William Carlisle, Joseph Durham, Amos Lawrence, James Russell Lowell, Wendell Phillips, John Ruskin, and others, dating from [1851?] to 1860.

The Beecher Family Papers contains manuscripts, printed materials, photographs, and memorabilia. These cover a time span of roughly two centuries, from the middle of the eighteenth century to the death of Henry Ward Beecher's granddaughter, Annie Howard Scoville (later known as Annie Beecher Scoville and so called in this collection) in 1953. Miss Scoville was the principal collector, with Lyman Beecher Stowe, of these papers. The bulk of the material deals with the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, his family life, and his career.

Within Bowdoin's collection, material relating to Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe includes correspondence; holograph notes; editorials; transcripts of selected letters; playbills; sheet music; trade cards; ephemera; inscribed album, images, and news clippings. Material relating to Calvin Ellis Stowe includes correspondence (1824-73); biographical clippings, images, obituary, and ephemera.