Stetson Kennedy was an editor of folklore materials for the Florida office of the FederalWriters' Project and an author on folklore and on social problems in the South. The collection contains correspondence and other papers relating to the Florida office of the Federal Writers' Project. The correspondence, 1938-1939, chiefly regards the preparation of the Florida state guide for the Project, and includes letters exchanged by staff members Roland Phillips and Maxwell Hunter, editing the material in Washington, D.C., and Florida director Carita Doggett Corse (born 1892). Some of this correspondence specifically addresses race relations as it relates to the guide. Other letters provide information on additional Florida projects and administrative items. Also included are 33 life histories and narratives generated by the project, all pertaining to Florida, four of which concern Mulberry Grove Plantation. The life histories are arranged by author, and include Ruth D. Bolton, Gladys Buck, Elvira E. Burnell, Bertha R. Comstock, Paul Diggs, J. M. Johnson, Rose Shepherd, Lillian Stedman, and Portia Thorington. The unprocessed material contains correspondence and writings, 1938-1945, relating to Kennedy's work for the Federal Writers' Project as well as his later career, and materials, 1938-1978, relating to African American folklorist Zora Neale Hurston.