Contains notes from courses on anatomy and physiology, minor surgery and first aid, laboratory technique, hygiene and sanitation, chemistry, pharmacy, nursing, and materia medica taken by Cooper while a student in the Hospital Corps School.

Dr. Emile Holman was professor of surgery at the Stanford University School of Medicine, 1926-1955. In his later years Holman became actively involved in political and social issues, particularly the anti-war movement. Dr. Holman was interested in the history of surgery and included in the collection is material on William S. Halsted. The collection contains correspondence, diaries, reprints, printed matter, diplomas and certificates.

Letters document several generations of the Henkel family of Virginia, four members of which were physicians, three of whom participated in the Civil War.

Personal correspondence volume consists of letters chiefly to his mother and friends as well as his education at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Medical illustrations volume depicts tissues, muscles, bones, and aspects of various anatomical tracts and systems produced for an unknown course in 1913.