This collection includes an 1829 letter from Nathaniel Jocelyn, a portrait painter, writing from New York about portraits of Adam and his wife, Sarah Hillhouse Gilbert Alexander, that Jocelyn was shipping to Washington, Georgia. The portraits were still in the Alexander house in 1972. The collection also includes an 1847 letter from John P. King, president of the Georgia Railroad Company, concerning the coming of the railroad to Wilkes County, Georgia.