Papers from the Lord family, including the associated Brown, Blayney and McDougal families. Includes letters, manuscript and printed poems by William Sinclair Lord, illustrated manuscript verses by Robert H. Lord, genealogies of the McDougal, Blayney and Lord families and miscellaneous publications about early Peoria, Illinois. Family letters include an 1860 letter from Julia Brown, the daughter of Samuel Robbins Brown, an early American missionary to Japan, describing life in Japan, and an 1862 letter from Frederick Augustus Lord to his wife Emilie from his camp with the Chicago Board of Trade Battery during the Civil War.