In the letters, Campbell requests assistance of a librarian from Louisville to travel to Lynchburg to set up the new Dunbar Branch at Dunbar High School. The Dunbar Branch was the first public library branch in Lynchburg to offer services to black residents.

In the responses, Settle agrees to send Rachel Davis Harris. Harris then writes of her travel arrangements. Campbell advises Harris on accomodation in Lynchburg and notes that Anne Spencer is a candidate for the position of Dunbar Branch librarian.

In February 1924, Campbell seeks to extend Harris' stay in Lynchburg, Settle agrees to an extension. Campbell then thanks Settle for Harris' work in Lynchburg.]]>
The first letter is from Julia Ideson, librarian at the Houston Public Library, to Jane Maud Campbell, librarian at Jones Memorial Library. In the letter Ideson requests Campbell's participation in a survey about library services to blacks.

The second letters is from Campbell to Ideson, reporting that Lynchburg does not yet provide public library services to black residents.]]>