Collection consists of manuscript financial claims submitted to the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs (Indian Dept. U.S. Government) from David Hall, 1855-1859, for supplies given to Native Americans in the Oregon Territory while acting as a special agent for the bureau.

Collection includes manuscript and typescript correspondence relating to materials at the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C., on which Joseph Rogers Wilson took notes in 1900 and have since gone missing; and manuscript notes, 1900, by Wilson, on same Oregon materials (1841-1850).

Bound photostat manuscript record of the official proceedings at the Council in the Walla Walla Valley, 1855, held jointly by Isaac I. Stevens of Washington and Joel Palmer of Oregon, where treaties were made with the Nez Percé, the Walla Walla and the Umatilla.