The bulk of the papers in this collection are drawn from Anderson’s correspondence as president of the NAD, with the emphasis on the years 1940-1941 and 1945-1946. Letters from the former time period deal mostly with Anderson trying to acquire support, in particular asking prominent deaf people from around the country to join various NAD committees. The latter period is more concerned with planning for the 1946 NAD convention in Louisville, Kentucky, as well as competition between the NAD and the American Federation of the Physically Handicapped (AFPH). The AFPH, founded 1940, was the first national cross-disability advocacy group in America, and at the time was attempting to recruit NAD members and other deaf people under its banner.

Also of interest is a handwritten diary of class activities that Anderson kept as a Gallaudet freshman and sophomore, from 1907 through 1908.