This collection primarily contains correspondence to Jared Mansfield and Edward
Mansfield. The correspondence includes numerous well-known thinkers and leaders
during the 1800s including Salmon P. Chase, Rutherford B. Hayes, Lewis Cass, Henry
Clay, and General William T. Sherman. There is also other family-related and
miscellaneous correspondence as well. Also included are deeds from the Iowa State
Historical Society, a Catalog of West Point Cadets from 1819, newspaper clippings,
military sketches, manuscript fragments, and a daguerreotype of three children.
