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The collection consists of one letter regarding a sick friend and Dr. Waddel. Excerpt from letter: "Tomorrow we expect Dr. Waddel the late president of Franklin College to preach the funeral of our deceased friend."

The collection consists of one letter: dated Milledgeville, February 15, 1830, to George W. Crawford, signed William H. Torrance, regarding the arrest of Elijah H. Burritt of the Milledgeville Statesman & Patriot for possessing insurrectionary literature, which was discovered by John Polhill.

The collection consists of a letter from William W. Wiggins to the president of Union College, New York, regarding information about Union College, expenses of tuition, boarding, etc.

The collection consists of one letter dated Paris, September 1, 1830, "Monsieur [Mr. Thomasson]", vice consul in Savannah, signed Molé, requesting that the vice consul comply with Louis Philippe's new law requiring all public officials to swear allegiance to the new regime and the new constitution and its laws. A note in the upper left margin indicates that the Savannah diplomat received and replied to the document.

The collection consists of one letter: dated Willington, May 23, 1831, to "Rev. A. Foster," signed "M. Waddel," regarding Waddel's travel and preaching at Rocky-River, and his need for assistance. Waddel mentions Presbyterian ministers William Hampton Barr and Samuel Kennedy Talmadge. The collection also includes a typewritten document concerning the letter, edited by George W. Clower, published in Georgia Historical Quarterly sometime after 1936.

The collection consists of one letter: dated Liberty, Talbot County, Georgia, "The Honorable John Forsyth," signed "Norborne B. Powell," regarding the slowness of Federal mail service in Georgia, a report that Mr. Longstreet of Augusta, Georgia will form a line of stages westward, and the Indian problems in Georgia.

The collection consists of one letter dated Athens, June 30, 1834, to Alexander H. Stephens in Crawfordville, Georgia, signed M. L. Barron. Barron, a student at the University of Georgia, writes of other students, college president Dr. Alonzo Church, and the sectarian difficulties plaguing the college. The last portion of the letter is dated July 2, after Barron has graduated. He writes, "The scene has very much changed (...) I retract most of what I have said in the first part of this letter."

Letter from William Webb, in Coal Creek, to John Cooper, Upper Alton, providing information about the health of family members and describing the Creek War of 1836. "Our volenters started on yesterday for the Creak Nation. About 150 went out of this county. Thare has bin some fiting olredy and som killed on booth sides. We hope the ware won't last long. The govener cauld for 25 hundred volenters and I expect that 5000 thousand has gone."

The collection consists of one letter from J. Young to Jonathan Burroughs

The collection consists of one letter dated Greensboro, August 26, 1842, to Hiram Warner, signed W.C. Dawson. The letter is concerning a trial for which Warner had information. In 1842, W.C. Dawson had returned to his law practice after losing the gubernatorial election of 1841.