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Morton Fitch Trippe (a graduate of Auburn Theological Seminary) and his wife Sarah Louise were well-known missionaries with the Home Mission in the Allegany, Cattaraugus, Tonawanda and Tuscorora Indian reservations. The collection contains sermons given by M.F. Trippe; notes for sermons, annotated with the places and dates that the sermons were given; addresses on temperance or religious themes; documents of interest on matters concerning the Reservation and the land disputes of the 1880s – 1890s, as well as miscellanea such as portrait photographs and financial notebooks, quarterly reports to the Board of Home Missions, and correspondence; as well as various documents on the history of the reservations and Native American conditions collected by Sarah Louise Trippe, and a Daughters of the American Revolution Certificate in the name of the Trippes' daughter, Myra.