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Nathaniel T. Green (fl. 1822-1823) of Danville, Va., was the son of Berryman Green (fl. 1822-1823) of Halifax, Va. The collection includes two letters, 15 December 1822 and 2 February 1823, from Berryman Green to Dr. Nathaniel T. Green, then attending medical lectures in Philadelphia, Pa., concerning family news.

Thomas Turner lived in Plymouth, N.C. in 1834.

William Geddy Hill was a physician of Pittsboro, N.C.

Lysander H. Amsden (fl. 1836-1837) studied engineering and worked on a railroad survey in Virginia under Moncure Robinson (1802-1891). The collection includes letters from Amsden, written while he was on a railroad survey at various places in Virginia, to S. M. Robbe, a friend who was a student at Norwich, Vt. The letters discuss Amsden's surveying work, his impressions of Halifax County, Va., and people in the Shenandoah Valley, and other matters.

Samuel H. Hempstead (1814-1862), native of Connecticut, moved to Little Rock, Ark., in 1836 and was clerk of the Arkansas House of Representatives, 1836-1838; adjutant general of militia under Governor Yell; prosecuting attorney, 1842; United States district attorney, 1856; solicitor general of Arkansas, 1858; and sometime special judge of the state supreme court. The collection includes six long letters, 1836-1837, from Samuel H. Hempstead in Little Rock, Ark., to his uncle, William Hempstead, a St. Louis merchant, describing his situation and prospects as a beginning lawyer, and the atmosphere and politics of the new state of Arkansas.

William O. Webb worked as a carpenter in Columbus, Miss., and Mobile, Ala., in 1836 and 1837 while Captain John Overstreet, recipient of the letters, lived in Norfolk, Va.

General M.T. Jessup was quartermaster general of the United States Army.

Peachy R. Grattan (1801-1881) was married to Jane Elvira Grattan, of Goochland County, Va. The collection includes a letter, 27 September 1837, from Peachy R. Grattan to Jane Elvira Grattan, describing a visit to Philadelphia, Pa., and a letter, 4 August 1849, from him, in Lewisburg, Va. (now W. Va.), with news from the springs located there.

The collection contains an invitation, 14 September 1842, to William Gilmore Simms to deliver a lecture before the Tuscaloosa Lyceum during his visit to Tuscaloosa, Ala., the ensuing winter, signed by A. B. Meek, Robert T. Clyde, and D. H. Robinson; and a letter, 2 April 1845, from Simms to Charles S. Palmer, c/o Wiley and Putnam, New York, in regard to two autograph letters of Francis Marion (1732-1795) in Simms's possession.

William Richard Caswell (1809-1862) of Tennessee was an officer in the United States Army who served as aide-de-camp to Major General Gideon J. Pillow during the Mexican War. The collection includes letters written from Mexico during the Mexican War by Caswell, addressed to Ephraim H. Foster and Thomas Hord in Tennessee, describing camp life and the progress of the war.