This collection consists of the papers of Pleasant Alexander Stovall and includes correspondence, printed materials, speeches, business and legal papers, photographs, newspaper clippings, diplomatic papers, genealogical data, and scrapbooks. The collection contains papers regarding the American Embassy in Switzerland, an unsigned and undated will of Pleasant A. Stovall, a purchase agreement for six city lots and a portion of a seventh in Harden Ward, Savannah, a program from a testimonial supper to George M. Tiedman, a broadside on the laying of the corner stones of Greene and Pulaski monuments (1825), Stovall's membership certificate as a noble of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and a list of trustees of the Georgia Infirmary. Correspondents include President Benjamin Harrison, General William T. Sherman, Justice O.W. Holmes, President Grover Cleveland, President Theodore Roosevelt, President William McKinley, Mills B. Lane, A.R. Lawton, Juliette Low, Hoke Smith, Woodrow Wilson, William H. Taft, A.A. Lawrence, John D. Rockefeller Jr., and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Additional material in the collection includes the will and memoriams of Sarah Adams Bulkley, who was lost at sea and is the aunt of Mary Stovall, Pleasant Stovall's wife, and the diary of Reverend A.E. Wilson, which he sent to his daughter Martha Smithey Wilson who would become Pleasant Alexander Stovall's mother. The diary describes Wilson's travels and sites in Africa where he served as a missionary. Part of a speech and "The Tragedy of Mosega" by Edyth Kaigh-Eustace (2 copies), which recounts the death of Mrs. A.E. Wilson in Africa, are in the collection as well.