This collection consists of correspondence, diaries, and other papers of the family of Walter T. and Susan (Mabie) Carpenter, their daughter Caroline Mabie (Carpenter) Wright, and her husband Henry C. Wright, important Indiana Quakers and benefactors of Earlham College. The Carpenter-Wright Family Papers consist mainly of family correspondence between Walter and Susan Carpenter and Henry and Caroline Wright, with comments on Quaker affairs, life in Richmond, events relating to the response of midwestern Quakers to the Civil War, and a reminiscence by Walter T. Carpenter of his travels in the South in 1863. The Wright portion of the collection is rich in material on life at Earlham between 1858 and 1865: diaries, autograph books, compositions, and letters.