This series is located in box 1, folders 1-10, and consists of two sub-series. The first, Sketches, includes a resume, entries from a Who's Who publication and Memories of Clawson, compiled by Cookingham. The second, Drafts of Published and Unpublished Biographies, includes various biographies and autobiographies including manuscript book drafts of Cookie, Cookingham's working copy of his never published autobiography, and drafts of This City, This Man, a published biography by Bill Gilbert. Also included is a taped conversation with Bob Saunders who wrote the forward for This City, This Man.