Includes family, friend and business correspondence. W. G. Morton asks to buy a Revolutionary War flint lock gun, Nina Bouldin solicits donations for a library at the Mt. Pisgah Academy. Letters from brother-in-law William Wilson Galt, J. B. Whitehead, Rev. J. J. Kirkpatrick, and others. Includes draft of a letter from H.C. Grigsby to R. C. Reid where he states that Reid was out of line to publically correct him, letter from B. Johnson Barbour who wants an interview about Hugh Blair Grigsby, letters from W.P. Dye and others about farming and livestock practices, letters from neighbors and friends extending invitations, letter from Robert Armistead of Richmond, Virginia about purchases made by Mary Galt, and a letter from A. E. T. Bradford about a "J. W. Madison" desk given to Hugh Blair Grigsby which was to be returned to him after Hugh Blair Grigsby's death.