The collection is arranged in three categories: corespondence, legal and financial papers, and miscellany. The family, business, and legal correspondence (1917-1934 and n.d.) form the bulk of the collection. The legal and financial papers include insurance policies, land deeds, receipts, subpoenas, promissory notes, lists of court costs, and divorce and parole petitions. The miscellany file includes wedding and commencement exercise invitations, a political tract (ca. 1932) and a printed excerpt from the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD giving Guy D. Goff's Armistice Day address on November 11, 1929. The collection indicates that Harris worked on a variety of different cases, including divorce cases, insurance settlements, parole cases, and real estate cases. He also tried to seek a pardon for one of his clients convicted of manufacturing liquor. There are some references to the "separate but equal" climate of this period, and also to the Great Depression.
