Correspondence of the Charles family of Liberty, Illinois, and the Crutcher and McRaven families of Vicksburg and Clinton. The collection is arranged as follows: ff. 1, Miscellaneous letters to Thomas C. and Ellen McRaven Charles, 1853–1866; also a typewritten history of the Crutcher family; ff. 2, Letters from Laura M. S. DeFrance, sister of Ellen Charles, 1853–1867; ff. 3, Letters from Ellen Charles to her family in Mississippi and her husband's family in Illinois, 1851–1860; ff. 4, Letters from Thomas C. Charles, 1852–1860, written from San Francisco to his family in Mississippi and Illinois; ff. 5, Letters from William and Emma C. Crutcher to Thomas and Ellen Charles, 1852–1866. The box also contains a bound typescript of these letters, copies by William H. McRaven.