The Darwin Clark Papers include Mr. Clark's personal and financial records, record books of his furniture company and other business ventures, and records of his property and real estate transactions. The correspondence in the Papers is very limited, although letters written in his later years do make references to the early settlement of Madison, and give his impressions of the site when he first arrived. The correspondence includes a letter of praise to the University of Wisconsin, and a letter from Lyman Draper.
The collection also includes a small amount of material on Darwin Clark's religious beliefs, and his political life, the latter relating to early elections in Madison. In addition, there are papers concerning several estates in which he seems to have been connected with, those of John Dunbar, F. F. Shrigley, G. A. Briggs, Elkanah Hewitt, and the William M. McCormick Saloon.
The collection also includes genealogical materials relating to the Adams, Newell, and Clark families.
