The John McIntosh Kell papers consist of a planter's journal for three plantations presumably owned or operated by the Munroe family near Macon, Ga.; an undated, unidentified slave list; a diary of Julia Blanche Munroe Kell, John's wife, which records the grief she felt at the death of her two children in September 1863; a letter written by Mrs. Kell to her father at their family home at Sylvan Lodge, October 1864; and a letter from Kell to W.E. Mitchell of New York City, April 30, 1891, Kell declines request of him by Mitchell in behalf of the Young People's Association of Mitchell's church. The collection also includes two cased images: one of John McIntosh Kell taken in the late 1850s and one of Blanche and their son, Nathan Munroe Kell, taken c.1857, and one print of the Kells in front of their Sunnyside home. The collection is arranged chronologically.