Collection includes correspondence, 1823-1834, to Littleton Dennis Teackle from John Adams, Henry Clay, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Mentor Johnson, Edward Livingston, James Madison, and Roger Brooke Taney. Teackle (1777-1848) was a Maryland businessman and member of the Maryland House of Delegates.

Page from the Boston periodical "Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion," featuring an engraving of St. Helens, Oregon, with a short article about the town.

Manuscript letter by F. E. Webster to Captain Z. C. Norton, of Portland, Oregon, dated August 15, 1852, and sent from San Francisco, California. It is bound with a condensed steamship issue of California News, dated August 14, 1852, featuring details of the funeral of Henry Clay and the death of Edward Gilbert in a duel.