Item consists of correspondence and documents pertaining to the court case of teacher John M. Swain vs. Superintendent McKee, Cedric O. Hicks, A. E. Ottewell and A. T. Cushing.

Item consists of three notebooks of Pitman Shorthand. The notebooks were used by a stenographer and possibly contain correspondence dictated by the Superintendent and later used in the Swain vs. McKee et al court case.