The collection consists of scrapbooks, personal and political correspondence, clippings, invitations and announcements, pamphlets, and ephemera, mostly relating to Nan Wood Honeyman's involvement in the Democratic Party; her public service, especially in the U.S. House of Representatives; and political friendships and relations. Correspondents represented in the collection include Alice Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, James Roosevelt, Sam Rayburn, Francis Biddle, Bernice Pyke, Adlai Stevenson, Fred Friendly, John F. Kennedy, Richard Neuberger, Wayne Morse, Lyndon Johnson, Matthew McClosky, and Monroe Sweetland. Other materials relate to her father, C.E.S. Wood, and a mural by artist Childe Hassam in the Honeymans' Portland home.