This collection is comprised of correspondence, photographs, diaries, genealogies, ephemera, and newsclippings, books and booklets.
Letters constitute the bulk of the material.
Most of the collection centers on Rosalie Meyer Stern's life as a daughter, sister, cousin, mother, and grandmother. Rosalie's daughter, Elise Stern Haas, is a secondary focus of the collection. The letters, most of which were written to Rosalie Meyer Stern, provide a picture of her life and that of three to four generations of her extended family, the Meyers, Sterns, Haas', and Newmarks. The earliest, to Rosalie's father Eugene from his mother Zephora, predates her birth by two years. The most recent one, dated 1964, is an inquiry about her French ancestors from Rosalie's daughter, Elise.