Includes his Latter-day Saint infant blessing certificate, patriarchal blessing received from Presiding Patriarch Hyrum G. Smith, high priest ordination certificate, and a poem. Also includes pictorial priesthood lineage card for Cecil I. Birmingham, who ordained Hughes to be a high priest. Poem appears to be from Hughes's mission in the Southern States in the early 1920s, and contains humorous references to other missionaries.

Materials include copies and transcriptions of Orson F. Whitney's setting apart blessing given to him before he began serving as the mission president of the European mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1921. There is also a copy of a transcription of the blessing and ordination given to Whitney before becoming an apostle in 1906. There is also a copy of a document from 1876 certifying Whitney as a preacher in Britain for his first mission. Dated 1876-1921.

Contains genealogical information on the Russell family, including 2 certificates of ordination to priesthood offices of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2 business cards with information on the back, and other names and dates. No dates identified.