Letters and papers pertaining to the private research by Miss Maria L. Shelton, an employee of the Department of Archives and History, on A. B. Lawrence, a Presbyterian preacher in Mississippi, for Charles T. Butler, of the firm of Orgain, Butler, and Bolinger, Beaumont Texas, in the case of Angeline Louise Bailey Dolbear, et al., vs. Gulf Production Company, et al., No. 562 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Beaumont. Most of the material was copied from the records of the Synod of Mississippi from October 28, 1846, to November 28, 1855.