This collection primarily focuses on the W. H. F. "Rooney" Lee family. Rooney was the son of Robert E. Lee. Included are photographs, correspondence among family members, invoices and receipts, and a couple of recipes. The primary recipient of the correspondence was Rooney's wife, Mary Tabb Bolling Lee. Correspondents include G. W. C. Lee and Robert E. Lee, III. The photograph subjects include George Bolling Lee, Robert E. Lee, Robert E. Lee, III, W. H. F. Lee, and the President's House at Washington and Lee University. There is also a photograph of the Lee Recumbent statue.

Primary correspondence subjects include White House (Lee farm), Robert E. Lee, III's health, and other family matters. Of particular note is a letter written by Mary Custis Lee in 1922 while on board a ship after spending the day in Athens, Greece. This letter relates to the Mary Custis Lee travel scrapbooks housed in Special Collections (WLU-Coll-0576). Also of note is a letter written by John D. Letcher in 1922 to Mary Tabb Bolling Lee which goes into great detail about how the remains of her young children were reinterred in the Lee family crypt/mausoleum. There is also a typed 1923 letter to Washington and Lee from Giles Buckner Cooke, "sole survivor of the staff of General Robert E. Lee," asking that the Chapel be left intact and a separate auditorium be built elsewhere, if needed.

The collection ranges in date from 1868-1923.