Papers relating to Henry Eyring's activities as a theoretical chemist and as a university administrator. Included are personal and family materials, correspondence, publications, administrative records, instructional materials, conference files, transcripts of speeches, notes, professional organization files, and research files.

This collection contains histories of the Princeton University Chemistry Department (of which Eyring was a faculty member from 1931 to 1946), class materials and lecture notes, research material, and administrative papers. It also contains programs for various conferences and symposiums in which Eyring participated, membership directories for professional organizations, newsletters, drafts of articles and manuscripts for text books, publication contracts, royalty statements, and files on some of his own college papers.