The Henry Lewis Buzzard collection consists of approximately 1200 items dating from 1880-1987. The majority of papers date from the 1970s-1980s. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, arranged chronologically, and records of various organizations including the Metropolitan Chapter of Gallaudet College Alumni Association.

In the folder related to the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf, one can find programs, reports, news-clippings, bylaws from the parent section of the CAID and brochures. There are photocopies of a letter from Isaac Lewis Peet, 1880 and Rev. Thomas Gallaudet, 1881. .

The folder titled “International Games for the Deaf” has programs, letters, schedules, receipts and a list of names of Miss Deaf Pennsylvania. The collection contains records of the Oral Deaf Adult Section of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf which includes correspondence, personal narratives on the ODAS meetings, by-laws, and news clippings.

This collection forms part of the original collection donated to the Gallaudet University Archives by Henry Buzzard.