Personal and business letters of Daniel Price Porter, his wife Kate Hobson Porter, and a member of their family, with miscellaneous school reports, statements, and certificates. The collection contains Mr. Porter's commission in the Lee Guards, reports issued by Rev. A. Cleaver's school for girls, letters written from Columbus, Mississippi, during the Civil War, from Mr. Porter, secretary of the Mississippi State Senate, to Mrs. Porter, and a letter written by Mrs. Porter during the Spanish American War, describing conditions in Jackson at that time. Daniel Price Porter was born in Franklin, Tennessee in 1835, and was educated at Sharon College. He studied law under Fulton Anderson and George S. Yerger, and married Miss Kate Hobson of Brandon. He was secretary to the Mississippi State Senate in 1865 when the Legislature met in Columbus, and was a vestryman in St. Andrew's Church from 1854 until his death in 1899. The Porter residence, 515 North West Street, Jackson, was sold as the site of a new YMCA building in 1943.