The collection includes unfinished typescript chapters of Claude M. Fuess' proposed biography of Frank Waterman Stearns, clippings and other biographical materials about Stearns and the F.W. Stearns Company. In addition, the collection contains certain personal papers of Stearns, including some of his correspondence with Calvin Coolidge and members of Coolidge's staff when Coolidge served as Governor of Massachusetts and later Vice-President and President of the United States. Other of Stearns' correspondents include his son Foster Stearns and Dwight W. Morrow (AC 1895).

This collection is organized into four series:

• 1. Typescript Drafts of Fuess' Biography of Stearns, n.d.
• 2. Notes and Clippings about Stearns, 1908-1929 and n.d.
• 3. Claude Moore Fuess Correspondence, 1937-1941
• 4. Frank Waterman Stearns Papers, 1868-1930 (bulk 1915-1930)