Personal correspondence, legal papers, account books, and diaries of the Davidson family of Iredell County, N.C. The correspondence includes a letter concerning the land and timber around Covington, Newton Co., Ga., 1824; one giving terms for renting land and hiring blacks, 1838; another describing life in Mississippi in 1863, Federal raids, the blacks, and the condition of the Confederacy; and others, 1882, telling of the work in China of John W. Davis, a missionary of undetermined denomination, and contrasting the Chinese and missionary ways of teaching. Included also are twelve account books and diaries of George F. Davidson, Iredell County planter and lawyer, showing expenditures, receipts, and daily activity on his plantation; and two account books concerning the settlement of the estate of Rufus Reid.
