Letters, copies of letters and photostats of letters written by Varina Howell Davis, wife of Jefferson Davis. Also included are a letter from B. W. Griffith to Mrs. Davis, and a copy of the deed to Beauvoir, October 10, 1902.

The correspondence is distributed by dates as follows: n.d., 1 item; 1860–1869, 7 items; 1870–1879, 2 items; 1880–1889, 11 items; 1890–1899, 9 items; 1900–1905, 4 items. The volumes are page proofs of Mrs. Davis' Jefferson Davis, Ex-President of the Confederate States of America: A Memoir (New York: Belford, 1890).