This collection contains a letter Lizzie C. Weslow wrote to her cousin Libbie from Dresden, Germany. She included a likeness of herself and asked for news of Libbie's upcoming wedding.

This collection consists of one letter from Lucius D. Whaley at Frankfort, Kentucky, to his sister Mary M. Whaley of East Cleveland, Ohio, 23 November 1862. The letter is written on stationery with a engraving illustrating "Desperate Bayonet Charge at the Battle of Winchester" [today labeled the First Battle of Kernstown], March 23 1862. The accompanying envelope is also illustrated with a scene depicting a soldier bidding his wife or girlfriend farewell, the words "The Girl I Left Behind Me" beneath it, and below them a stanza from an unattributed poem. Whaley was evidently a convalescing soldier about to be discharged and sent home, and that subject occupies the bulk of his letter.

This collection contains a letter written by Caroline C. Whitaker to Mrs. Bangs while visiting a friend in Colchester, Connecticut. She is on her way to see her sister Julia in Willington, Connecticut and writes of her brother in California who has recently purchased an interest in one of the mines. The contents of the letter cover the rest of the family as well as the local religious community.

Letter from Marcus White to his wife in Worcester, Massachesetts, describing the train ride to New York City and his fun-filled activities while there.

Papers of this Marengo County, Alabama, plantation family including correspondence, financial papers and business receipts, land sale documents, and Nathan Bryan Whitfield's presidential pardon.