Typescript and photostat copies of correspondence between various members of the Fowler, Spicer, Merick and McCormick families. Includes copies of letters written by Nettie F. McCormick (principally to her brother Eldridge M. Fowler and her sister-in-law Mrs. Eldridge M. Fowler) and Cyrus H. McCormick Jr. These papers are copies of papers loaned to the Nettie Fowler Biographical Association by Mrs. Van Santvoord Merle-Smith, a niece of Mrs. McCormick. Also included are typescript biographical notes on Eldridge M. Fowler and some miscellaneous Fowler family business papers.

The Fowler family business papers cover the years 1802 to 1876 and the correspondence the years 1820 to 1949 (and undated). The correspondence is arranged chronologically by years and alphabetically by subject.

None of the material is catalogued.