The material here is primarily personal and includes fragmentary correspondence from Springfield, Mass., and Lehigh University, and Bethlehem, Pa., involvements. There are a number of letters from Harold to his parents, from his parents to Harold, from Louise to Harold, and from Harold to Louise, all while he was in the service. There is a great deal of material about David: his baby books, a diary of his life that his mother kept, and many formal pictures and snapshots of David, as well as Harold and Louise.

The material came to Lehigh in 1991 from a niece, Lynn Moody Igoe, from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, through her mother, Frances Johnson Moody, of Hickory, North Carolina, one of Louise's younger sisters.