This collection contains the following material:

• correspondence (20 items), April 28–June 9, 1908 (ff. 1)
• thirty-five stamped envelopes (ff. 2)
• receipt from W. B. Thompson and Company to J. Cornwell, January 8, 1887 and letter of Patent of Obadiah M. Cornwell for his churn dasher, October 18, 1910 (ff. 3)
• sheet music, "Old Folks at Home" (ff. 4)
• certificate of appointment of Hamlet F. Jones as 1st Lieutenant, Company "L," 3rd Infantry of the Mississippi National Guard by Governor James K. Vardaman, December 31, 1906 (ff. 5).