Assorted papers, including: transcripts of a few Rowan County, North Carolina, records, 1775, and of a letter of Joseph Hewes, dated October 20, 1776; an original letter (1779) written by Adam Alexander; an original bill of sale (1822) for a Negro youth signed by William B. Alexander; correspondence (1823) between J.G.M. Ramsey and R.H. King; correspondence (1841) exchanged by Peter Force and John Vaughan; letters by David L. Swain to Benson J. Lossing (1851), George Bancroft (1858), and Henry S. Randall (1858); and Draper correspondence, 1870-1875, accompanied by a few related newspaper clippings.

Among the topics discussed are the early publication of the Mecklenburg declaration; the state pamphlet issued by the North Carolina legislature in 1831; the centennial celebration in honor of the Mecklenburg declaration held at Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1875; and genealogical and biographical information on the Alexander family, Waightstill Avery, Richard Barry, John Davidson, Joseph Graham, Humphrey Hunter, Robert Irwin, the Phifer family, Thomas Polk, James Wallis, and Zaccheus Wilson.