Correspondence, speeches, articles, scrapbooks, awards, photographs and other materials docu-menting the personal and professional life of Stanley King and his wife Margaret P. Jackson King. Correspondence includes chiefly personal letters to and from King during his business career, 1914-1929, and presidency of Amherst College, 1932-1951; also correspondence related to his work as special assistant to the Secretary of War, 1917-1919. Correspondents include Newton D. Baker, Ernest M. Hopkins, Felix Frankfurter and Frederick J. E. Woodbridge. Amherst College materials include speeches, reports and articles (many published in the Alumni Council News), and correspondence related to King's publications. Personal papers include boyhood letters; scrapbooks; diaries of travel and undergraduate years, 1896-1919; genealogical information; drawn portraits; and photographs. Notes from Gertrude Besse Toll are included as well, in Series 8, with some contextual information. Mrs. King's papers include family correspondence, an oral history interview, and records related to the Kings' private residence on Lincoln Avenue in Amherst.

This collection is organized into eight series:

• 1. Correspondence, 1914-1967
• 2. Manuscript Speeches, 1920-1951
• 3. Published Speeches and Articles, 1929-1950
• 4. Correspondence Concerning Publications, 1950-1955
• 5. Amherst Life, 1895-1952
• 6. Resignation from Amherst College and Death, 1944-1951
• 7. Mrs. King, 1922-1962
• 8. Images, ca. 1880-1960
• 9. Miscellaneous (mostly childhood), ca. 1895-1933