This collection consists of letters, business records, and miscellaneous papers of members of the Fraser and Couper families. Most of the correspondence contains news of family and friends. Included are letters of condolence to Anne Fraser upon the occasions of the death of her husband and some of her children; correspondence dealing with Anne Fraser's pension from the British government and concerning damages done to the Fraser's house and property during the Civil War. Several letters discuss the War of 1812. There are numerous Civil War letters in the collection including some from prisoners of war. The collection is arranged chronologically.
Family correspondents within the collection include John Couper (1759-1850) and his wife Rebecca Maxwell Couper (1775-1845); John Fraser (1791-1839) and his wife Anne Sarah Couper Fraser (d. 1866) and some of their children: Anne Rebecca Fraser (Mrs. Paul Demere) (1817-1841), James William Lovat Fraser (d.1845), John Couper Fraser (d. 1863), Selina Fraser (Mrs. George Mortimer Stubinger) (b.1836), Rebecca L. M. Fraser (b. 1834), Frances Fraser, Susan Fraser. Other family correspondents include William Fraser (1794-1837), brother of John Fraser; James Hamilton Couper (1794-1866), brother of Anne S. C. Fraser; Isabella Hamilton Couper (Mrs. Theodore B. Bartow) (1815-1841), sister of Anne S. C. Fraser; Theodore B. Bartow; Robert H. Couper; Hamilton Couper; and Isabelle Stiles (?). Other correspondents include Julia Datty; Isabella Wilson; Louisa C. Shaw, daughter of Nathaniel Green; Fanny Kemble Butler; Sir George Cockburn; Charles Menzies; Lula Habersham; M. W. Menzies; Sir Frederick Bruce; F. Hazard; Grace Minto; and others.
In addition to correspondence, there are several bills of sale for slaves, listing the slaves by name; an account of the sinking of the Pulaski by John Hamilton Couper (published without attribution in George White's Historical Collections of Georgia, 1854, 353-364); a speech by John W. Quincy on the Confederacy and its flag; genealogy of the Maxwell family by James Audley Maxwell; history of Christ Church on St. Simons Island by Caroline G. Couper; reminiscences of an unidentified soldier who served under General John C. Breckinridge; reminiscences about John Couper by Margaret Fraser Demere; information on John Fraser, James William Lovat Fraser, and William Fraser by Margaret Davis Cate; recipes; medicinal cures; photographs; needlework patterns and a piece of needlework; poems; and miscellaneous business records.