This collection is composed of letters and business papers of the Lockhart and Weir families of Carroll County. The papers pertain principally to Mrs. Lucinda Lockhart, the widow of Samuel T. Lockhart, and her daughters, Ella C. and Ophelia W. Others pertain to the estate of H. H. Weir and to the business operations of R. S. Weir and R. C. Weir. The collection contains one letter each of J. Z. George, E. C. Walthall, and A. B. Longstreet, and some letters of John Cunningham of Vaiden and T. H. Somerville of Carrollton.

Carroll County tax receipts (41 pieces, December 10, 1846–December 12, 1885); invoices and receipts from the Mississippi Central Railroad (15 pieces, March 18, 1859–June 15, 1868) and the Southern Railroad Association (13 pieces, April 16, 1869–August 11, 1874); papers from Robert L. Adams and Company (10 pieces, October 1, 1857–October 1, 1859); Murphy, Sykes and Company (24 pieces, September 2, 1859–April 1, 1861); and Gordin and Avera (Gordin and Bains; Howcott and Gordin; Gordin and Company), cotton factors of New Orleans (14 pieces, April 26, 1859–January 18, 1878); Charles Kopperl (M. and B. J. Kopperl; Vaiden, Kopperl and Hawkins; and Kopperl and Hawkins) of Shongalo and Vaiden (10 pieces, January 1, 1857–October 23, 1890); Feucht and Johl (Feucht, Johl and Lockhart; Feucht and Lockhart), commission merchants of Memphis (35 pieces, November 23, 1866–March 1, 1873); and A. J. Sanderson, doctor and druggist of Vaiden (17 pieces, April 27, 1859–July 24, 1890) make up the bulk of the business papers.

There is only one item in the collection dated before 1840, and others are distributed as follows:

• n.d., 30 items
• 1840–1849, 12 items
• 1850–1859, 123 items
• 1860–1869, 168 items
• 1870–1879, 150 items
• 1880–1889, 78 items
• 1890–1895, 22 items