This letterbook features outgoing correspondence written from Canton (China), concerning commerce and shipping. Also included is a letter to John Sergeant (1838) concerning the book.

Letterbook kept by Hawkins at the Creek Agency, including outgoing letters, memoranda, speeches to and from Creek and Choctaw Indians; materials relating to Indian affairs; the attempt to survey the St. Mary's River; Spanish-U.S. relations. Includes a "Sketch" of the Indians at the Creek Agency; political organization, agriculture, manufacture, public establishments; justice. Materials written variouslv at Fort Wilkinson, Tukebatchee, and Coweta.

This letterbook includes documents other than letters, such as "A method of destroying . . . the Wheat Fly," observations on herring, and articles establishing a grammar school at Wilmington (1771).

These papers include correspondence, letterbook, published writings, miscellany, and memoria.