The collection consists chiefly of correspondence of Princeton Dean Andrew F. West regarding a conference (1917) on classical studies and the foundation of the American Classical League, as well as letters to his sister, Clara L. West, and his son, Randolph West. Correspondents include John Jay Chapman; President Calvin Coolidge; John Huston Finley, Princeton University faculty member, 1900-1903; Sir Auckland Geddes; James Curtis Hepburn, Princeton Class of 1832; Charles Evans Hughes; Jean Jules Jusserand; Sir Frederic Kenyon; Howard Seavoy Leach; Richard Winn Livingston; Henry Cabot Lodge; A. Lawrence Lowell; Samuel Walker McCall; John William Mackail; Albert Mansbridge; Allan Marquand, Princeton Class of 1874; Alexander Meiklejohn; Edward P. Mitchell; Alfred Noyes (letter accompanying an autograph manuscript signed on the "Value of Classical Studies"); William Osler; George W. Pepper; Mahlon Pitney, Princeton Class of 1879; Elihu Root; Charles M. Schwab; President William Howard Taft; Miss M. Carey Thomas; Frank A. Vanderlip; Benjamin Ide Wheeler; Shirley Weber; and George W. Wickersham.

Also included are typescripts of several poems written by West, entitled "Boston" (finely printed copy, 1899), "Philadelphia" (1894) and "Here and Beyond"; the latter was written for his 80th birthday, signed and dated May 17, 1933. Also included are West's final class grades for his junior year at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), signed by the registrar and dated July 7, 1873.