A newspaper clipping announcing an "Anniversary Meeting" of the Literary and Philosophical Society of South Carolina, to take place in Charleston on Chalmers Street at the "Depository." The clipping lists the elected officers of the Society.
An accounting of a women petitioning St. Andrew's Society on behalf of her husband for a land grant of 400 acres. The accounting includes three men noting their recommendations she be granted the land and certifying her story.
A note from B. D. Heriot passing on an extract from a letter referencing the Sumter, South Carolina Temperance Society, with a mention of Reverend Samuel Gilman.
Petition of Elizabeth Lesley to the St. Andrew's Society requesting that she be compensated for the nursing services she provided for a David Blair, who died before he could repay his debts to her.
A portion of a will possibly belonging to Thomas Drayton in which Drayton specifies the ways in which he would like his slaves distributed. The writer also wills several "hacks" and tracts of land on the Ashley River.
Front and back book covers used to display clippings regarding the amateur performance of Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy at the Academy of Music in Charleston featuring performances by Helen and Israel Lee Ottolengui. The play was organized by the B'Nai Brith, or the Sons of the Covenant, which was a charitable organization seeking funds to establish an orphan asylum. The inside right cover also displays a clipping from The News and Courier commenting on the performance of Miss Helen Ottolengui in The Burglar at the Grand Opera House.