The Jean Garis Flood Papers consist of correspondence, course records, writings, newspaper clippings, an obituary and memorial service program, and photographs. The papers pertain primarily to her years as a student at Mount Holyoke College, 1931-1935. Correspondence includes two letters by her written in 1932, the first of which discusses a lecture given by Arthur Baker Lewis, 1932 Socialist candidate for Massachusetts Governor; political propaganda on the Mount Holyoke campus; exercises in which students simulate stock and bond investment in order to determine an appropriate response to the Depression as part of an Economics class; entertaining male visitors; and a dinner "bat" (party). The second 1932 letter describes Bell Telephone Laboratories' demonstration of television on the campus. There is also a 1958 letter by one of her former teachers, Leonora Branch, which contains impressions of the new president, Richard Glenn Gettell. Course records are for religion classes with David Ernest Adams, a sociology class, and several English classes including one with Jeannette Marks. The records consist of papers by Flood that include occasional comments by professors and a copy of her honors examination. Writings consist of examples of her original poetry and new words to a Mount Holyoke song. Included in biographical information are newspaper clippings, an obituary and a program for her memorial service. Photographs include formal portraits and snapshots of Flood, a photograph of her undergraduate residence hall room in Wilder, a photograph of her participating in a graduate study on venous pressure in women in about 1934, a photograph from her class reunion in 1985, and family photographs.