Scope and arrangement
The collection consists primarily of a twenty one volume unpublished dictionary entitled, Dictionary of American Political Biography, in manuscript form and apparently in Joline's hand; miscellaneous letters to and from Joline to W. R. Benjamin, c. 1894-1912, chiefly discussing professional interests. Also included in the collection is one of Joline's published works entitled, Meditations of an Autograph Collector, (1902).