Scope and Contents: The Funereal Collection consists of a variety of documents that were mostly acquired as single items. The provenance of the majority of the material in this collection is unknown, however, if an individual item or group of documents has any acquisition information, it will be indicated in brackets at the end of the description. Where biographical or historical information is available it has been included in the description of the item(s) or a note has been made where to find that information.