Boxes 1 and 2 include correspondence and miscellaneous family records, such as receipts, bills, land transfers, in the period from 1819 to 1954. Among these assorted papers are scattered letters from numerous ancestors of Alfred T. Flint in the Flint, Thomas, and Fisher families in Massachusetts and Ohio in the nineteenth century. Also included are a number of interesting descriptions of travel, written chiefly by George and Albert S. Flint: to the White Mountains of New Hampshire (1873), California (1875-1876), Salt Lake City (1877), Mammoth Cave (1877), the Atlantic Coast of Massachusetts and Maine (1879, 1883), and the Chicago World's Fair (1893). Of later dates (1933, 1937) there are typewritten carbons of journals of two Canadian canoe trips into the Ontario wilderness, written by companions of Alfred T. Flint on the trip.
Box 3 contains 25 volumes of notes and diaries by various members of the family. There are 14 volumes (Vols. 11-24) detailing the training Alfred T. Flint received as a 2nd Lieutenant during World War I. These give a good picture of the training given young college men commissioned in World War I. In addition, there are scattered diaries and notebooks of Alfred T. Flint (Vols. 7-10), Albert S. Flint (Vols. 2-6), reminiscences by Mary E. (Fisher) Thomas (Vol. 25), and a rent ledger kept in 1851 by Nathaniel Fisher (Vol. 1).
Boxes 4 and 5 contain notes made by Alfred T. Flint on lectures he attended at the University of Wisconsin, 1908-1911, and at Harvard Law School, 1914-1915. Of particular interest are his notes from John R. Commons' lectures on Labor History, 1860-1880, and on Public Utilities; from Richard T. Ely's lectures on Evolution of Industrial Society and on Land and Rent; from Carl Russell Fish's lecture on American History to 1910; from Paul S. Reinsch's lecture on Contemporary International Politics; and from Felix Frankfurter's lecture on Administrative Law.
Boxes 6-8 contain notes by Alfred T. Flint on legal matters. These are chiefly penciled notations on cases in Ohio, New York, and other areas, which he appears to have jotted down in connection with Wisconsin cases on which he worked in the 1920s and 1930s as a Madison attorney.
Visual materials include family albums; high school and university ephemera; photographs of officers' training camp activities; images of Madison, Wisconsin, including effigy mounds in Madison and other places in Wisconsin; photographs and a film about Flint's camping trips to Canada; and a booklet made by Flint's grandfather for his grandchildren.
