This collection consists of correspondence and various documents relating to many notable Georgians and Georgia businesses, such as Howell Cobb, Joseph Clay & Co., Lachlan McIntosh, Joseph Habersham, Joseph Clay, John Macpherson Berrien, Levi Sheftall, and Samuel Elbert. Included in this collection is a list of stations of officer of the Quarter Master's department in Savannah; a letter to Lachlan McIntosh describing the condition and activities of Fort Barrington; A letter from Joseph Habersham to Joseph Clay on the death of Clay's son, James, and commenting on Col. Benjamin Hawkins and the Indian situation; correspondence regarding the Georgia Historical Society and the Society of the Cincinnati; a letter from Eliza Logan lamenting the yellow fever epidemic in Savannah; and a number of wood engravings.
Originally part of the Tefft Autograph Collection, many of these papers are in the original folders of the Tefft Collection and all of them have numbers from the catalog of the sale, "Catalogue of the Entire Collection of Autographs of the Late Mr. I.K. Tefft of Savannah, Ga.", Leavitt, Streigh & Co. Auctioneers (N.Y.: 1867). This collection is arranged according to the original catalog numbers