Herbert Baldwin Foster was born on November 12, 1874 in Amherst, Massachusetts. In 1905, he completed the first English translation of Cassius Dio Cocceianus's history of Rome. The collection consists of five folders. Two of them contain a manuscript of, most likely, Foster's presentation to the Philological Seminar in 1900 on the deus ex machina in Euripides's plays.

Lucille Tingle Masson (1901-1989) was a music teacher, organist, and choirmaster who earned degrees from the Johns Hopkins University and the Peabody Conservatory. The collection contains Masson's master's thesis, "The Musical Heritage of the Protestant Episcopal Church" (1954), and notes from her music theory classes at the Peabody Conservatory.

William H. Buckler (1867-1952) was an archaeologist, lawyer and diplomat. This collection consists of one program for "The Tempest," 1902, one photograph of W.H. Buckler, 1908, and the thesis of William Charles Dunning, "The Diplomatic Career of William Hepburn Buckler," 1954.