Handwritten diary, receipts, and a typewritten autobiography. Brown writes in his diary about his life in Hoytsville, Summit County, Utah. He writes about weather conditions, meetings of the Mormon Church, and business in Park City, Utah, where he hauled coal. Also included is an autobiography of Viola N. Zumbrunnen Mabey, Brown's daughter. Maybey writes of her life in Summit County, Utah.

The contents of this collections relate to or belonged to Hyrum Fisher Smith. Included in the collection are a razor and its case, tithing receipts, tax notices, bills and invoices, daybooks and calendars, correspondence, and newspaper articles. The contents of the collection have been divided into categories, with each folder representing a different genre. Within each folder, the documents have been ordered chronologically.