The collection consists of papers of Weems (Princeton Class of 1907) primarily from his student days at Princeton and several years thereafter, during which he traveled in Europe, worked for the Alaska Road Commission, and became an army colonel in World War I. While an undergraduate, Weems apparently worked as a secretary for Princeton professor Henry Van Dyke, for the papers include his stenographic notebooks (1906-1907) of letters dictated by Van Dyke. Also included are Weems's school papers, lecture notes, Princeton memorabilia, correspondence with family (particularly, his brother, Benjamin Francis Weems) and friends, and a scrapbook of photographs taken in France (1916-1919).