The Ray Pearl Condry Collection consists of two document cases and a hat box containing the hat that Bertha Dobie wears in a photographic portrait also held by the university. The collection consists of correspondence (handwritten and typed) newspaper articles, postcards, notebooks, travel diaries, photographs, and Bertha Dobie’s diploma from the University of Texas. Most of the collection is correspondence to and from family members, especially J. Frank Dobie, Ray Pearl Condry, and Bertha Dobie’s parents. Also found is one folder of correspondence between Ray Pearl when she was a WAVE (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency service) during World War II and a friend who was a WAC (Women’s Army Corps).

Materials related to J. Frank Dobie include correspondence from him to Bertha, correspondence and materials with publishers, notes regarding his assets and writing projects, clippings, a foreign service identity card, and other items. A number of letters are from J. Frank to Bertha while she was traveling in 1948. These discuss his writing, politics, his longhorn cattle project, Texas heat and pollen, Barton Springs, and friends, family, and colleagues. Five travel diaries as well as correspondence belonging to Bertha Dobie describe trips to Mexico, Texas, and Europe. These often include lists and reports of flora and fauna sighted, especially birds. One diary records gardens visited in the southern United States. Also found is the manuscript of an essay Bertha submitted to the San Antonio Express in 1940 titled Tarhumara Indians Untouched by White Man's Ways. More of her writings are found among her papers, which are also housed in Special Collections at Southwestern University.