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This collection contains items from the Berkeley Cox family papers. The collection contains cased photographs, hair of various family members, a glass plate photograph, a silver card case with calling cards, a medallion, a photograph, and a Mulberry Hill pamphlet. Many of the items have a small notation from a family member describing the people in photographs or the physical item. Family members represented in the collection include: Mary Berkeley Cox, Lewis Berkeley Cox, Francis Callendar Cox, Richard S. Cox, Eliza Williams, Bessie Cox, Catherine Cox Reynolds, Lewis Berkeley Cox, and son Berkeley Cox.

This collection contains a single-leaf document, printed on the front and back, titled "Deliveries of American Tobacco from 1st January to 31st January 1837." The printed document recorded the prices and quantities of many different tobaccos imported into England in 1837, as well as outlining tobacco deliveries for 1836, stocks remaining in the "King's Warehouse," specifics on market fluctuations of tobacco varieties, a "Recapitulation of Exports in 1836" to various markets, measured in "hogheads," and tobacco stores "under bond." However, it was repurposed as a letter sheet, dated 6th January 1837, sent by James Dunlop (1782–1844) to J.and D.K Stewart (John Stewart (1806-1885) and Daniel Kerr Stewart (1809-1889) of Richmond, Virginia. The letter mentions insurance for a recent shipment from Virginia to England, recent sales, damage to stock, and their regret at not yet finding a buyer for a parcel of tobacco from New York.

The John M. Woolsey collection is comprised of fifteen historically significant legal documents from 1790 to 1844.

This collection contains documents - mostly letters - from a variety of Virginia and Maryland judges, Supreme Court personalities from the nineteenth century.

This collection contains correspondence, deeds, estate indentures, account books, receipts notebooks, photographs, carte-de-visite, genealogical research and trees, clippings, a tintype, and ephemera, including wallets, a metal box, and a lock of hair documenting the Rose, Redd, and Claiborne families of Virginia. Names frequently appearing in papers include Eugene M. Redd and his son James Redd. Also included are Ezra Morrison, Mattie Tompkins, Clarence Redd, Jessie Redd McCarthy, Rachel Ayers, Blaine McCarthy Willett, John McCarthy, and the Blain family. The papers document genealogical research and track land purchase and holding, including the Bellevette, a Robert Rose property that has passed down to his descendants, in Nelson County. Also included is correspondence from the turn of the century regarding the Central Virginia Electric Cooperative, a private, not-for-profit cooperative that has provided electricity to customers.

The Wickham family papers (1704-1950; 9.5 cubic feet) consist of papers of Richmond, Virginia and "Hickory Hill" plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, including the families of John Wickham (1763-1839), his son, William Fanning Wickham (1793-1880), grandson, Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888), and great-grandson, Henry Taylor Wickham (1849-1943).