The William and Isabella Kirkman Collection contains a wide variety of documents. The correspondence file contains William Kirkman's letters to his family written in the 1850s and 1860s. Isabella Kirkman's 1867 scrapbook contains clippings of poems and newspaper articles. Invitations received by the family in the 1870s and 1880s provide evidence of their social engagements. A travel journal kept by William Kirkman describes his family's 1892 European tour. Genealogists will be especially interested in the clipping file, the family record in the family Bible, and an unpublished booklet entitled "The Kirkmans of Walla Walla" by Patrick Peebles. A small collection of financial records, land records, an 1896 Masonic Cemetery Deed, and materials from the 1892 Republican National Convention complete the collection.