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Professor of Speech at the University of Michigan. Correspondence, diaries, an autobiography, photographs.

Correspondence, travel diaries, an autobiography, and other papers relating to his activities at University of Michigan and his travels around the world; also speeches, lecture notes, articles, essays, reviews, mostly relating to oratory and debate; one volume of congratulatory letters, 1942, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Department of Speech; and photographs. Correspondents include: Jane Addams, Clinton P. Anderson, James Burrill Angell, Albert J. Beveridge, Ekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaia, Wilber M. Brucker, Princess Cantacuzene, Edgar A. Guest, Chase S. Osborn, Lieutenant Governor Sir Robert Stout (New Zealand), William Howard Taft, among others. Photographs include portraits and photos of Trueblood in South Africa and as passenger aboard ship. Also included a recording of selective readings from William Shakespeare.

Papers collected by Robert U. Redpath and Richard U. Light of the Upjohn family of upstate New York and western Michigan, founders of the Upjohn Company. Daybooks, daily journals, sermon notes, and journal of trip to America and on the Erie Canal in 1830 of William Upjohn.

This collection, accumulated by Robert U. Redpath and Richard U. Light, consists largely of papers of William Upjohn, born in England, who migration to New York in 1830. Much of the material dates from before the passage to America, and includes sermons, daybooks and journals, and material relating to his work as surveyor and timber appraiser. The materials after 1830 concern his passage to his eventual home in upper New York State and to his business endeavors. Of interest is a folder of the minutes of the Greenbush Debating Society in 1833. In addition, there is a series consisting of papers (mainly photocopied) of other family members, including correspondence, Civil War materials, and miscellanea. A final series is comprised of various medical volumes owned by Upjohn family members.

Transcripts for diaries of William Upjohn written from 1820 to 1826 were added to the collection in 2019.