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Two small daily journals with entries about daily activities and genealogy notes.

There is some overlapping in the financial and correspondence papers. Contains bonds, notes, road surveys, merchant's license for operating a dry goods and grocery story, license for "standing" a jack (mule) and a stallion, $15,080 note with William Wilson Galt, a farming contract with Tazewell Taylor, administrator papers for Mary and Louisa Cooper and an appointment to survey the lands of William W. Read.

Letters to William Wilson Galt from father William Richard Galt, uncle James D. Galt, brother Rogers, brother Zander, brother Bob, sister Annie, Hugh Carrington Grigsby, and Charlie Anisdue; letters to Mary Blair Galt from William Wilson Galt, Annie Galt, and Mary W. Galt; receipt from George P. Zurhorst for (William's brother) John Galt's funeral expenses, dated 1885 January 16.

Letters to William Wilson Galt from father William Richard Galt, mother Mary W. Galt, uncle James D. Galt, brother Zander, brother Rogers, brother Bob, grandmother S. M. Christian, Hugh Carrington Grigsby, Charlie Anisdue, G. L. Dyer, C. A. Stanly, William T. Saunders, and Dr. Donald Phais; postcard to William Wilson Galt from Bancroft Gherardi; telegram to William Richard Galt from Mary Blair Galt. Much of the correspondence in June is regarding the birth of Mr. and Mrs. William Wilson Galt's second son, William Richard.

Certificate dated 1878 January 25, appointing William Wilson Galt as Assistant Paymaster of the Navy, signed by Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States, and R.W. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy. Certificate dated 1881 October 15, appointing William Wilson Galt as Passed Assistant Paymaster with the relative rank of Master, signed by Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States, and William H. Hunt, Secretary of the Navy. Certificate dated 1893 September 26, appointing William Wilson Galt as Paymaster of the Navy with the relative rank of Lieutenant, signed by Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, and H. A. Herbert, Secretary of the Navy. Certificate, dated 1899 March 3, appointing William Wilson Galt as Paymaster of the Navy with the rank of Lieutenant Commander, signed by Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, and John D. Long, Secretary of the Navy. Certificate dated 1901 February 19, assigning William Wilson Galt as number one in the Rank of List of Paymasters in the Navy for Extraordinary Heroism, signed by William McKinley, President of the United States, and John D. Long, Secretary of the Navy. Certificate dated 1902 April 10, appointing William Wilson Galt as Pay Inspector of the Navy with the rank of Commander, signed by Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, and William H. Moody, Secretary of the Navy. Certificate, dated 1903 December 2, appointing William Wilson Galt as Pay Director of the Navy, signed by Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, and William H. Wood, Secretary of the Navy. Certificate of Membership in the Society of Manila Bay for William Wilson Galt, USS Raleigh, signed by George Dewey, Commodore US Navy, undated. Picture and roster of the members of the Society of Manila Bay who attended the banquet at Admiral Dewey's resident in Washington, DC on 1914 May 1. Photograph is very fragile and rolled. All certificates are loosely rolled.

Includes a 1871 obituary of Judge William Leigh of Halifax County, Virginia. Most clippings deal with events in the Norfolk, Virginia area, either articles or editorials.

Includes news clippings; a printed John Knox poem, a program of "The Little Duke" performed in at the Broad Street Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1879-80; a pamphlet "Ode Commemorating the Entrance of the Hon. Horace Binney on his Ninety-Third Year" dated 1872 January 4 and printed in Norfolk, Virginia; 1939 brochure by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities "Pocahontas Bright Stream Between Two Hills", and two other pamphlets for Jamestown Island, 1941 and undated.

Broadside announcement of the "Resolutions of Respect in the memory of Judge Wood Bouldin" which were passed at a "meeting of the citizens of Charlotte County, Court Day, November 6th, 1876." Broadsides for farm machinery, "Spring Hill Nursery" in Prospect, Virginia, "Greensboro Nurseries" in Greensboro, North Carolina, tobacco, chemicals, bookstores, kettles, and manure. March 1900 flyer for the Southern Historical Association, price list for plows from "Charles E. Hunter" in Richmond, Virginia; how-to cards from "A.H. Patch" of Clarksville, Tennessee, two copies of Volume II, No. 11, 1891 March 14 "Knowledge, a Weekly Magazine", reprint of "Use and Abuse of the Obstetric Forceps," and flyer with prices from tobacco to groceries for "Sublett & Cary" General Commission Merchants.

Deeds and other legal documents for property in Norfolk, Virginia, Colorado, and Florida.

Plats, deeds and related material for land in Charlotte County. Includes a 1736 survey by William Westbrook with notes on "Booker Survey"; 1793 survey for Thomas Read; Edward Fitzgerald deed to Hugh B. Grigsby; 1870 survey of the "Low Grounds of Edgehill" by Thomas F. Petters, correspondence on land bought from the Cardwell Family (1870's and 80's) and more.