This series contains basic biographical information about Margaret Wooster Curti and her family. It includes Curti's death certificate, her obituaries, and letters of condolence to Merle Curti; school records; photographs, including an album; a scrapbook created by Curti's grandmother, Nancy Ann Todd; clippings about Margaret and Merle Curti, and about her father, Charles Wooster; several Curti family newsletters; and artwork and special occasion cards created by Margaret Wooster Curti as a child, for her family.

Family correspondence is extensive and includes over twenty years of letters between Margaret Wooster Curti and her husband, Merle Eugene Curti, as well as many years of correspondence between Curti, her siblings and her extended family.

This series is comprised of published monographs and journal articles, and typescripts of unpublished essays by Margaret Wooster Curti; it also includes poems by Curti. Wendy Spotts's thesis, "Illegitimacy as it Relates to the Physical, Intellectual, and Personality Development of Lower-Class Negro Jamaican Children," is based in part on unfinished research conducted by Curti on the intelligence of black children and white children in Jamaica, B.W.I.