The Meredith M. Jack collection comprises 10 folders containing letters, photographs, newspaper clippings, a telegram, and a telegraph. The letters are primarily from Meredith M. Jack to his family members (mother, father, sister, brother-in-law, and niece) from 1921-1922 (Folders 3-10). Folderd 1-2 contains a letter and photos from Helen Barcom Frary to Mrs. L. Foster Jack (Jack's mother) and envelopes (mainly from 1921 with the exception of one from 1925).

The collection is important for two reasons. The first is that it features travel and transportation (particularly ships and trains) in the early 1920s across the world. The second is that it calls attention to the blatant presence of xenophobia, bigotry, racism, pro-colonialism, discrimination, and sexism in the early 20th century. Researchers of the history of economics and society, especially interactions between the Western and Eastern world in the early 20th century, would find this collection interesting. Also, the letter to Mrs. Jack from Mrs. Frary highlights vacationing in Maine in the 1920s, and the letters referencing W. Somerset Maugham (writer), Frederick G. Haxton (Maugham's secretary/lover), Pakubuwono X (Prince of Solo; Surakarta, Java, Indonesia), and Duke Kahamamoku (competitive swimmer and father of modern surfing) might be of interest scholars of their lives.