Consisting chiefly of correspondence and miscellaneous papers generated and/or collected by members of the Ruff and Caldwell families, in particular the family of Dr. James M.H. Ruff, of Glymphville, Newberry County. Includes receipts, and legal papers re settlement of the estates of John Ruff, 1819-1830, 1847, and Frances Ruff, 1845-1849; letters, 1834-1845, to William H. Ruff, Newberry District, from brothers John, Henry, and Reuben Ruff, and brother-in-law James A. Graham, re land purchases in Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida; Civil War letters of W.W., Jeff H., and Moormon Ruff; correspondence between James M.H. Ruff and daughters Lizzie J. and Minnie L. Ruff as students at Staunton Female Seminary, Staunton, Va., and later as teachers in South Carolina and Georgia; courtship letters addressed to Lizzie J. and Minnie L. Ruff, including 36 letters, 26 Aug. 1879 - 2 Aug. 1888, from John Eusebius Berly to Lizzie J. Ruff; and business papers, including promissory notes, tax receipts, appraisements of Negro slaves, bills and receipts for medical and surgical instruments. Also includes letter, 15 Dec. 1834, Macon, Noxubee County, Miss., R[euben] Ruff to [William H. Ruff, Hogg's P.O., Newberry District], re migration of Georgians, Carolinians and Virginians to the Old Southwest; legal documents, Jan. 1843, re settling the estate of Anna Pratt, Newberry District, particularly in re her two illegitimate daughters, Mary Pratt and Clarissa Coree; letter, 4 Aug. 1845, Tallahassee, Fla., Henry Ruff, to William H. Ruff, Glymphville, re climate, health and agriculture of Florida; muster roll, [c. 1861-1865], of "Quitman Rifles"; grade reports, 10 Nov. 1880, Staunton Female Seminary, issued to Lizzie J. and Minnie L. Ruff; invitation and program, 7 June 1881, from Staunton Female Seminary commencement; letters, 23 and 30 May 1885, 8 Mar. 1886, Newberry, P[ressly] B[olar] Ruff, to James M.H. Ruff, physician's consultation re treatment of pneumonia and other diseases; printed pamphlet, "Inflammation and Ulceration of the Neck of the Uterus During Pregnancy," By Dr. P.B. Ruff, Newberry; and 14 unidentified family photographs. Also includes volume, 1861-1865, 1871, 1888, 1893, containing Civil War muster roll for the "Snow Hill Guard"; volume, 1864-1865, 1892, containing Dr. James M.H. Ruff's record of sick and wounded in the 26th and 38th Georgia Regiments; and volume, 1866-1867, "Wm. H. Ruff Account Book for Freedmen."
