Letters are occasionally accompanied by tapes, photographs, or other materials. The correspondence covers a vast number of topics. Many of the letters pertain to individual problems or requests for routine tourism information. Certain topics such as abortion or public prayer could generate enough volume that these eventually were answered by form letter and separated into their own series. Thank you notes and routine congratulatory letters not requiring a response similarly separated into another series.
Some letters appear at only certain times.
For example, requests for the implementation of a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday peaked in February 1986 but ended when legislation for the same was enacted that year. The activation of Utah National Guard troops to the Persian Gulf in 1990 brought a similar peak in letters on that topic. Other broader topics appear more frequently. Personnel matters, including hiring and firing, are discussed throughout. Correspondence pertaining to the appointment of new department heads and commission members appears most frequently at the beginning of Governor Bangerter's terms.