Mostly correspondence, but also some telegrams, newsclippings, and receipts. letters from A. Mitchelle, General Superintendant in Chicago; James C. Clarke, W.H. Osborn, W.K. Ackerman, and E.T. Jeffery. Items of interest include an 1864 telegram from Sheppard Reynolds, about sending bounty money, an 1875 letter from James C. Clarke regarding the need to economize by limiting empty cars, etc., and an 1877 letter from W.H. Osborn about getting through "this crisis unscathed" [presumably about the 1877 strike]. Also includes receipts of stock dividends, and newspaper articles about "The Panick in Dubuque" and the run on the banks, Sept-Oct. 1873.