Chiefly letters, memos and clippings by and about Frank W. Stearns of Boston, director of R. H. Stearns department store, trustee of Amherst College and campaign manager for Calvin Coolidge. The bulk of his material relates to Amherst College, in particular, the hiring and firing of Alexander Meiklejoh, President of Amherst 1912-1923. The material on the store concerns mostly with real estate on Temple Place and Tremont Street in Boston. There are some papers documenting his relationship with Calvin Coolidge as well as his personal scrapbooks, 1900-1928. The collection includes material by Foster Stearns who spent many years compiling information about his ancestors and those of his wife, Martha Genung Stearns. He also collected papers from various families that were related to him and his wife: Clark, Cushing, Frost, Genung, Richards, Sprague, and Waterman, 1683-1880. There are also photographs, including some of the R.H. Stearns building.