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The material consists of pages from the family Bible and a poem entitled "To Priscilla on her Birthday" written by "M.F.V." for "Grandmother Jerome" on November 23, 1848. The Bible was published in 1824 and records birth, marriage, and death dates for Jerome family members from 1752-1939 and for Gilbert family members from 1858-1939. The poem entitled "To Priscilla on her Birthday" was written by "M.F.V." and dated November 23rd, 1848.

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This material consists of a commonplace book compiled between 1850 and about 1870 by Elizabeth Gilbert Jerome. Its title is "Elizabeth Gilbert's Book Of Prose and Poetry, And Gems from Late Readings. New Haven June 5th 1850". It contains poetry, quotations, some prose and one page of clippings regarding the death of a Dr. Schue. Most entries are not signed and some may be original writings by Jerome or her friends.

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This material dates from Jennie G. Jerome's years as a student at Hartford Female Seminary. It consists of a spelling book from 1873, documents found inside the spelling book dating from 1875-1878, and a school catalogue for 1878-1879 that lists names of faculty, board members and students and describes the curriculum. The "Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes" by William T. Adams was published in Boston by Brewer and Tileston. Jerome's notes concern her spelling lessons as well as her study of algebra and ancient history. These documents also include poems and her "Monthly Report Card for the year beginning Sept. 12th 1877." The card reflects her study of rhetoric, Latin, algebra, and spelling.

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The material consists of a scrapbook, an autograph album, a letter, and an obituary. The scrapbook dates from about 1876 and is filled with colorful stickers of flowers, birds, insects, animals, cherubs, mythological figures, children, and elaborately-dressed men and women. Jerome began the autograph album when she attended the Hartford Female Seminary in the 1870s. Entries date from about 1877-1881 and consist of signatures, good wishes, and words of advice written by friends, classmates, teachers and the school principal. The letter, probably written in the 1920s, is a request for Gilbert family genealogical information from Frederick Dwight of New York City. The obituary for Jerome (which is incomplete) was photocopied from the New Haven "Journal Courier" of January 14, 1939.

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This material dates from 1914 to about 1921 and consists of pages from a yearbook, tributes, and a published biography. The biography, entitled "Lieut. Gilbert Nelson Jerome," was written by his mother, Elizabeth Maude Jerome, and privately printed in 1920. It describes his childhood, education, artistic talent, involvement with the Boy Scouts of America and the Young Men's Christian Association, military training and service during World War I, and death in combat. The book also includes some of his drawings and poems and it is illustrated by numerous photographs. Pages from "The Massasoit," the yearbook of the Class of 1914 at International YMCA College of Springfield, describe his college achievements and extracurricular activities. A copy of "In Memory of Yale's Dead in the War," published by the Yale War Memorial Committee, is attached to a letter from the University Secretary's Office which was sent to his mother in memory of Jerome's life and war service.

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This material contains photographs and three photograph albums. One photograph, possibly dating from the 1920s, is of Elizabeth Maude Jerome. The other photographs and one album relate to Gilbert Nelson Jerome's military service and death during World War I. Included are photographs of him in uniform and with his airplane as well as photographs of the funeral service for him at the German military cemetery in Blamont, France, on July 14, 1918, and his subsequent burial sites in Argonne, France and New Haven, Connecticut. Photographs of the Tiffany and Company memorial window given to the Plymouth Congregational Church in New Haven by his mother are also included in this material. The two other photograph albums date from the 1860s to about 1900. A green leather covered album with raised brass decorations, inscribed on the flyleaf "Mrs. E. G. Jerome, Hartford," contains nineteen pages of photographs of family members, persons of note, and paintings. An "Index to Portfolio" at the front of this volume describes how the photographs were arranged, but that order was changed at some point and the album now contains carte-de-visite photographs of Martha Washington, Abraham Lincoln and family, Empress Carlotta of Mexico, Ulysses S. Grant, and the children of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Most of the Jerome and Gilbert family photographs are tintypes. A brown cloth-bound album contains twenty pages of photographs of members of the Jerome and Gilbert families. Also included in this album are carte-de-visite photographs of Louis Agassiz, Charles Dickens, Horace Greeley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Brown, William T. Sherman, Edward Everett, Andrew Jackson, Anna Dickinson, and Frederick Douglass.