These letters deal with the history of the Early family in Virginia and the coats of arms of Capt. John Smith, with several colored sketches.

Notification of Brown's having been elected a member of the American Historical Association, signed by Herbert Baxter Adams.

Items concern the publication of his book The Cabells and Their Kin.

Items concern the occasion of the death of his wife.

Items concern Brown's claim against the company.

Items concern Brown's claim against the company for damages inflicted on his property during the floods of 1 June and after.

Some correspondents include Charles Washington Coleman, 20 Feb. 1896, notifying Brown of his election to Phi Beta Kappa; C.B. Clawborne; Fanny Cook; Joseph Cohn; Margaret C. Cabell, N.F. Cabell; and P.H. Cabell.

There is an afterwards from his grandmother Eliza Callaway.

Originals are located in the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Some correspondents include Clifford Cabell, A letter, 29 July 1867, from L. M. Blackford, N.Y., commenting on the attitude of the Radicals and a letter, 17 Jan. 1849, from Wm. M. Cabell to his uncle Mayo Cabell commenting on Louis Napoleon's election to the Presidency of France and on the California gold rush

Some items included are a letter, 23 April 1864, from Jno. H. Daniell, a Confederate soldier in Early's Division to Mayo Cabell and letters, 20 Sept. 1867 and 10 Jan. 1868, from Thomas W. Gilmer, Fredericksburg, to Mayo Cabell about Texas land values.

Some items included are a letter, 29 April 1865, from Martin & Cardoza, Richmond, Virginia to Mayo Cabell reporting damage in the burning of Richmond.

Scrapbook contains reviews of The Genesis of the United States, and the author's reply to critics of The First Republic in America, as well as newspaper clippings of reviews of his books.

Included in these items are autobiographical notes on Brown.

Items include four letters, 1852 and 1853, from Mayo Cabell to his son William D. Cabell, a student at the University of Virginia.

Items were written upon Brown's election to membership.

Letters concern notification of membership and general correspondence.

Letters concern notification of membership and general correspondence.

Letters concern notification of membership and general correspondence.

Letters concern confirmation of membership onto Brown; and legal and business correspondence.

Letter concerns rumors of Brown's political activities while serving as postmaster.

Letter informs Brown that he has been elected as a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Letters concern notification of Brown of the Doctor of Laws degree awarded him by the College of William and Mary.

Letters are in regards to copper mining and property.

Letters include one, 28 Dec. 1876, regarding a country estate, mining property, and the proposed Clifton Forge Railroad to connect the canal and Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad.

Letters mostly concerning mining.

Among the correspondents is William C. Rives of Cobham, Virginia, Newport, Rhode Island, and Washington, D.C.

Items include legal papers regarding Brown's being adjudged bankrupt, 1873.

Letter concerns Mrs. Caroline A. Cabell, giving consent to Brown's marriage with her daughter Kate.

Letters were written to Brown upon the occasion of his father's death.

Items concern the administering of the estate of Mrs. Lucy S. Brown.

Manuscript Includes:

Notes on shipping to Virginia, 1606-1625, listing name of ship, dates of sailing and arrival, captain, etc.

Manuscript copies of A True and Sincere Declaration &c, 1610. (a copy made in the British Museum for Brown);

Virginia Reviewed by George Donne, 1637;

The Discourse of the old Company of Virginia, 1625. (printed in Virginia History Society Magazine, 1893-1894);

and A Short Collection of the Most Remarkable Passages from Origin to the Dissolution of the Virginia Company (London 1651).